It is difficult to transfer and enforce knowledge in a traditional way in the era of globalisation and access to all media, CCC – Concept, Cooperation, Creation is the project which involves three partner schools from Poland, Romania, and Turkey whose teachers exchange experience and knowledge in order to come up with new ideas how to teach more effectively and in more interesting way in order to prevent the early school leaving. Through our project, we will try to define and to understand in detail the CONCEPT- to develop new methods of interdisciplinary and open learning – CREATION, and to make the exchange of best practices - COOPERATION. We want the whole project to be focused on one specific subject, which may be different in each partner school. In the Polish and Romanian schools the intended subject is to be the widely understood notion of flying, beginning with the ability of living organisms to fly, ending with the contemporary aviation. Turkish school will carry out topics connected with sea life and getting aware of living in the Bosporus. About 200 students will approach the project themes in different ways - there will be used different teaching methods (informal learning, open method, project based method, CLIL, search and constructional method, etc.) Such activities like excursions, observations, building plane and ship models, debates, drama, simulations are supposed to make learning more attractive and motivating for students. Students and teachers from partner schools will visit one another to perform project activities together, to experience travel by plane or ship, to get aware of multicultural society they live in. Each school will involve in project activities a great number of students of different interests, level of knowledge and financial status. Students will learn to use ICT all the time (for communication with partners and for producing the project products). We find it very important to obtain long-term project results such as developing and adapting innovative solutions, increasing students’ and teacher’s mobilities, gaining new educational contacts and possibilities of practical exchange of professional experiences with other European teachers, getting multicultural competences and constant process of increasing language competences Summary in Polish Skrót CCC oznacza w języku angielskim twórczą współpracę myśli (CCC= Concept Cooperation Creation), czyli pomysłów na temat edukacji pomiędzy partnerami. Celem tej współpracy jest wypracowanie nowych innowacyjnych metod nauczania. W dobie globalizacji i powszechnego dostępu do wszelkiego typu mediów tradycyjne metody nauczania i utrwalania wiedzy nie wystarczają. Naszym celem jest wzmocnienie motywacji uczniów do nauki, a co za tym idzie zapobieganie przedwczesnemu kończeniu edukacji.Cel ten można osiągnąć a wiele sposobów. Ponieważ każdy z partnerów posiada bogate doświadczenie i szerokie kompetencje, planuje się wymianę doświadczeń i wiedzy między uczestnikami projektu.Aby spełnić założenia projektu, nauczyciele ze szkół partnerskich wypracują innowacyjne metody nauczania. Każda ze szkół poszukiwać będzie różnorodnych metod i form pracy w celu wykonania poszczególnych zadań projektowych. Chcemy, aby projekt skupiał się na wybranym zagadnieniu, które może być inne w każdej ze szkół partnerskich. Uczniowie będą mogli wybierać zadania i samodzielnie dochodzić do konkretnych rozwiązań. W szkołach w Polsce i w Rumunii wybranym zagadnieniem jest szeroko rozumiane latanie, począwszy od umiejętności latania poszczególnych organizmów, skończywszy na współczesnym lotnictwie. Zagadnienie to zostało wybrane ze względu na istnienie wielu różnych dróg do osiągnięcia celów projektowych. Ponadto wybór tego zagadnienia ma na celu zwiększenie liczby uczniów zainteresowanych naukami ścisłymi oraz wykorzystanie umiejętności uczniów dotkniętych problemami w uczeniu się. W szkole w Turcji głównym zdaniem projektu jest pogłębienie świadomości uczniów mieszkających rejonie Bosforu. Uczniowie, jako „kapitanowie Bosforu”, mają odkryć region na nowo oraz poznać jego wartość zarówno dla Turcji jak i innych państw. Ponadto projekt zakłada użycie różnorodnych metod oraz łączenie wielu przedmiotów w celu rozbudzenia zainteresowania uczniów rozmaitymi przedmiotami, takimi jak historia czy nauki ścisłe. Jednocześnie uczestnicy będą mogli skorzystać z szansy na pogłębienie doświadczenia życia na morzu. Nowy poziom w jakości nauczania osiągnięty zostanie poprzez zaangażowanie dużej ilości uczniów; interdyscyplinarne podejście do nauczania; zastosowanie rozmaitych metod (nauka nieformalna, metoda otwarta, metoda projektu, zintegrowane kształcenie przedmiotowo-językowe CLIL, metody badawczej konstrukcyjnej itp). Ponadto przez stawianie przed uczniami nietypowych zadań, nauka stanie się wspaniałą przygodą.
A two-year project “Concept, Cooperation, Creation” was led in cooperation with three secondary schools from Poland, Romania and Turkey. The title of the project means in English creative interaction of thoughts, that is ideas on education between the partners. The aim of this cooperation was developing new innovative methods of teaching. In an era of globalisation and a universal access to any type of media, traditional teaching methods and methods for consolidation of acquired knowledge are not enough. Through cooperation in the project we wanted to enhance students’ motivation to learn, and consequently to prevent them from early school leaving. While implementing objectives of the project, we were taking advantage of the rich experience and the wide range of competences of the employees and students of our partner schools by exchanging experience and knowledge between the participants of the project. By carrying out various project activities, the teachers from partner schools worked out the innovative teaching methods. Each school was searching for diverse methods and forms of working. In each school the project was focused on the chosen problem. In Polish and Romanian schools the chosen issue was a broadly understood flying, from the ability to fly of the particular organisms to the present-day aviation. In Turkish schools the main task of the project was deepening the awareness of students living within the Bosporus region. Students, as “captains of Bosporus” were supposed to rediscover the region and understand its value both for Turkey and for other countries. The choice of the above-mentioned issues aimed to increase the number of students interested in sciences, history, art, and foreign languages, and to use the skills of students with learning problems. Students could choose tasks and find solutions on their own. These interests had been stimulated through the use of various innovative methods and through connecting different subjects. At the same time the participants could take the opportunity to deepen their experience in travelling by air or by ship, and in living at sea. They also increased their language competences within the scope of communication and presentation in a foreign language. All these thanks was achieved thanks to the short-term students’ exchanges organised in Poland, Turkey and Romania. The innovative activities carried out during and between the exchanges include among others: Oxford debates, live classes at the airport and on boards, simulation game “At the airport”, Bosporus festival, meetings and interviews with the representatives of jobs connected with flying and travelling by ship (an astronaut, pilot, flight attendant, aircraft mechanic, air traffic controller, technical mechanic at the airport, customs control workers, etc. ). Students also visited places of work referred to particular jobs. Thanks to that they were given the true and fair view of what the jobs consisted in. The science-nature team took part in a series of trips dedicated to the observation of flying organisms and in scientific workshops concerning flight simulation. On the basis of their observations they created the multimedia presentation showing the essence of flight and physical rules governing it. There was an interesting lecture on bats after which the students went on a trip to the caves in order to observe these mammals. Apart from acquiring knowledge, students were developing technical and manual skills ( creation of aircrafts models, gathering photo documentation, processing of videos, designing posters, exhibitions, decorations). Within the framework of the project three activities connected with learning had taken place (in each partner school) and one activity connected with education for teachers. There was the meeting in Istanbul during which teachers and principals exchanged their knowledge on teaching methods (CLIL, open method, teaching via ICT). Consequently, through the involvement of the large number of students a new level of teaching quality was achieved; multi-disciplinary approach to teaching, using various methods (informal learning, open method, project method, integrated subject-language CLIL education, research and development method ).Moreover, by assigning non-standard tasks to students, learning became a great adventure and encouragement to keep on being educated. For all partner schools achievement of long-term advantages for project participant was the most essential element. We developed and implemented innovative methods of teaching; we equipped students with key skills, which let them function in the European society on their own. Our staff gained new professional contacts, and we will be able to keep on exchanging good practices and experience and to create new educational projects. In addition, we will still be able to enhance their language competences.