Today education is constantly changing and developing in line with the modern world. As educators we believe it is very important to implement 21st century tools in the classroom not only for our students to acquire competences needed to function well in our 21th century society , but also to increase student motivation.

The term motivation is derived from the Latin verb movere (to move).

The idea of movement is reflected in such commonsense ideas about motivation as something that gets us going, keeps us working, and helps us complete tasks.

In order to get teachers as well as students motivated to ‘move’ it is critical to use a model that provides the greatest potential for helping classroom teachers improve their pedagogical skills and raise student achievement.

Research done by Robert J. Marzano, John Hattie and Partnership 21 provided us with clear and complete models to help us motivate both teachers and students to implement and acquire those skills needed in 21st century education.

These competences, known as 21st century skills, refer to cooperative working, social- cultural skills, problem solving, communication, critical thinking, ICT literacy and creativity .

The models also refer to other factors that are supportive in achieving educational outcomes.

In preparing for this project we decided to limit ourselves during our visits to those factors that are strongly developed in the respective partnerschools.

Inspired by these models we decided to gather pedagogical information in all partner schools which we then can present during our meetings or see for ourselves during the visits.