After four months of implementation of Muuvit the pilot project, the Municipal School Santa Rita in Sao Jose dos Pinhais / PR hosted and prepared activities for the pilot of the closing event and launching to other schools in Brazil. On December 12, Luiz Fernando Nascimento and Maxwill Braga, the Institute Share; and representatives of the partners Marja Suhonen, Raisa Ojala and Carlos Eduardo, Embassy of Finland; Jenny Karlsen, the United Nations Development Programme; representatives of the Secretariat of Education of São José dos Pinhais; Marcelo Kimura, Integral Education Manager of Curitiba Department of Education; Rosane Kupka and Lucymara, Advisors of International Relations of Curitiba, Ana Carolina, ISAE / FGV attended the event.
After presentation of each representative, delivery of honors and gifts cards to teachers, children from each school class did a dance performance, fighting, sports and gymnastics. Then all the students, teachers, staff of the Institute Share and guests participated in a big dance that made fumbling all the skeletons. "The event was a success. The school was able to present students with a day of fun learning, "positively evaluates the coordinator of the project Muuvit, Maxwill Braga.
In the second phase, all students were participating in the activities suggested by Muuvit platform that were happening simultaneously within classrooms and outdoor spaces. The goal was to keep moving students always, practicing a culture of peace activities and interdisciplines (the three pillars of the project in Brazil). In the library, a teacher was sailing on deck with the students. During this period, guests circulated by the school and knew the activities.
"As a result of the event, we received several invitations to present the Muuvit to institutions wishing to develop it in 2015," says Maxwill. The goal is to reach 10 public schools in Brazil next year.
Understand Muuvit: created in Finland, the Muuvit is geared toward elementary school, serving as a support tool for teachers and school principals develop interdisciplinary education. The platform, available on the web, allows teachers encourage students to move, to practice healthy lifestyle habits and combine knowledge in general, involving subjects such as arithmetic, global citizenship, geography, tourism, health, foreign language, cooking and games regional. Also in Brazil, the project includes the theme culture of peace, which teaches techniques peaceful resolution of conflicts and nonviolent communication.
In Brazil, the project was brought by Share Institute to realize the Muuvit the similarities with the organization's purposes. After registering with the website for free, the school teachers (where an instructor leads all subjects) of all public schools in Brazil can perform different activities with their students by promoting bodily movement and combating sedentary lifestyles.
Muuvit partners in Brazil: financial support of the Embassy of Finland to the United Nations Programme of support for Development (UNDP) and Sport for Social Change Network (REMS).
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