One of the most irresistable and important problem of societies is unmanagable anger. Because of this bad attitude people may find themselves in bad situations time to time. Unfortunately this feature exsists among our students too. Due to this problem, we aimed to carry out a project based on anger management and preventing from its consequences such as violence,hate speech,early school drop outs,inefficient relations and bad morality. Our priorities in this project are to help our students get free of their anger which directs them to bad habits(smoking,alcohol,drugs),early school drop outs,unefficcient human relations and bad morality.If we manage to keep them away from these negative situations,they will be able to develop some competences in many areas.They will learn to control their feelings,they will be sensitive and active citizens,they will develop better relationships with other people. Early school leaving rate will decrease because they will be more motivated to school subjects.They will like learning to learn and be more successful in school life and in future carreer afterwards.They will have the chance to meet peers from European countries,discuss their problems with them,share ideas ,cultures and lifestyles,so they will get European awareness. They will learn different languages as well as English. They will gain different skills all throughout the project process and even after they can use these skills in their lives. At the end of the project, we hope to see our students learn how to release their anger, how to cope with their problems and how to control their behaviours. With the help of the activities of project, they are expected to invert their negative feelings into positive ones,use the polite form of speech, being motivated to school life as well as social life,increase school success and decrease early school leaving. They will learn to tolerate and develop emphaty to others. We are doing this project on the international platform because this is a very common problems of societies. As schools are the keystones of the society, it is important to make alterations from this step. There are four partner schools in this project. All partners were choosen according to their students’ age level, backgrounds, opportunities and behaviours. But having the similar anger problems is the most important factor in selection of partners. We are planing to make three transnational meetings to monitor the project management. Three LLTAs are planned to involve students in different kinds of activities related to the topic. 7 students and 2 teachers will attend LTTAs. The local activities we will do: Creating an Erasmus+ corner at schools, organize a logo contest, making a web site, arranging seminars, preparing international dictionaries, booklets, posters, broshures,calendars, calm-down&anger boxes,treeking,powerpoint presentations, exhibitions.We aim to take attention of all students,parents and local people to the project we are doing with these activities. The activities will mainly be student centered. Teachers will be only the councellors of the activities. We want them experience and learn by doing and discovering. Emphatyzing will be a very important feature we want them gain.Team work,peer assessment and self-assessment will be the other methodology that will be promoted during the process. At the end of the project the participants are expected to change their bad behaviours, to retain from bad habits(alcohol,cigarette,drugs etc.),to be active citizens,to decrease early school leaving thus increase school success and number of university entrance.They will have the chance to develop foreign language competence,European awareness,tolerance to other cultures. Disemination of the project will be provided by the schools’ and project’s own websites , social Networks, Erasmus+ corner, seminars, brochures, booklets, posters, local media.The more we disseminate the outputs,the better society we have. At the end of the project, the positive effects of it on our partners and target groups (students,families,local people etc.) will continue by arranging our project’s outcomes reachable and durable via e-twinning,our mutual web site,educational and social sites. The seminars on anger management and the other problems will be always organized by our school and there will be always unity with our local municipality about these problems. There will be a publicity and informing meetings about these kinds of problems periodically. We will always get in touch with our partners, counsellor and specialists to expand the effects of our project and have the notice of the practical and innovative approaches about our problem and project.
'Just Calm Down and Enjoy Life' was an Erasmus+ Strategic School Partnership project with only school partners. It focused on changing violent behaviours of the students into good manners with different kinds of activities (sports,music,art,theatre,blacksmithery,etc.) Our priorities in the project were to help our students get free of their anger which directs them to bad habits(smoking,alcohol,drugs),early school drop outs,unefficcient human relations and bad morality.We planned to keep them away from these negative situations so that they could develop some competences in many areas.With the activities during the project , we observed that they could control their feelings better,behaved more sensitive and moral towards their friends.Motivation to school subjects was also observed. Students started to like school more and continue to classes more than before because school provided them different activities apart from the lessons.They had the chance to meet peers from European countries for the first time in their lives,shared ideas ,observed cultures and lifestyles,by this way, they developed European awareness. They learnt different languages as well as English. They gained different skills all throughout the project process and even after they can use these skills in their lives.We did this project on the international platform because that was a very common problem of societies. As schools are the keystones of the society, it was important to make alterations from this step. There were four partner schools in this project. Incirliova Ahmet Callioglu Cok Programlı Anadolu Lisesi (coordinator), Zespol Szkol w Zychline (Poland), Liceul cu Program Sportiv 'Iolanda Balas Soter' (Romania) and Smichovska stredni prumyslova skola (Czech Republic) involved in this project actively. All partners had a group of students with behavioral problems, so we cooperated together in this project.All partners were choosen according to their students’ age level, backgrounds, opportunities and behaviours. But having the similar anger problems was the most important factor in selection of partners. We had three project meetings; one in the beginning, another in the middle of project process and the last one towards the end of the project year. Only Poland partners didn't attend the meeting in Turkey due to political situations of Turkey that time. And there were four LTTAs. Seven students and two teachers from each partner school attended these activities as planned. Czech team didn't came to Turkey as they couldn't find participating students.All the other partners completed their mobilities apart from these two matters. As we didn't ask for individual support in application form,all partners have difficulty in budget management. We managed to do the LTTA mobilities by hosting the students at families. In this way we could manage the budget as well as providing more integration among students. The local activities we did: Creating an Erasmus+ corner at schools, organizing a logo contest, making a web site, arranging seminars, preparing international dictionaries, booklets, posters, broshures, calendars, calm-down&anger boxes,treeking,powerpoint presentations, exhibitions. We tried to take attention of all students,parents and local people to the project with these activities. Each school organised a contest for the logo of the project. Students prepared logos and each partner school took the winner logo to the first project meeting in Prague. The winner logo was voted on the website of the project ( www.jcdel.ssps.cz ).The seminar on anger management given by a professional speaker ( Mehmet Şakiroğlu) really took attention of the local people,students and teachers in the town. It has been observed that students were more interested in transnational activities than the local ones. They wanted to interact with their foreign friends rather than school mates. Disemination of the project was done by the schools’ and project’s own websites , social Networks, Erasmus+ corner, seminars, brochures, booklets, posters, local media.Throughout the project ; experiences,activities and information gained was shared on noticeboards and websites as well as on the social media groups. In conclusion, during the two years of the JCDEL! project’s implementation, also the participating teachers had the opportunity to develop and/or improve their pedagogical skills and expertise with European projects while the participating students practiced team work, organized events, sharpened their creativity, communicated with their peers abroad, and, especially, noticed their negative manners and tried different activities to change themselves into better behaving young people. We can consider JCDEL! as a sucessful project because with this project, we made a lot of people (students,parents and the locals) aware of some problems and they tried to make changes for themselves by involvement to the activities done.