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THEATER AND COOPERATIVE WORK

2016-1-ES01-KA219-0251252016Strategic Partnerships for Schools Onlyfinalized
Countries: ES|FR|DE|LT|IT · Grant: €104,322.22
Creativity and cultureInclusion - equityEarly School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project summary

A. Context and Objectives The growing concern in Compulsory Secondary on school failure and the increasing behavioural conflict in schools, leads to all partner centers to seek motivational tools that reduce them. Our Project try to get some objectives through the cooperative work in order to increase the student´s motivation toward the school responsibility:1. To reduce the school failure with interdisciplinary educational activities fostering the students to participate in their own education.2. To use methodologies in which the student will become the manager of the educational process working with intuition, deduction and analogy.3. To involve teaching teams, and families.4. To minimize conflicts in schools. The cooperation tasks will make the young feel necessary, accept the differences and contribute to the integration of their peers.5. Sharing common experiences with schools with very different educational systems will provide different ways of address the same problems.6. To use the transnational meetings as the motivational key of the Project.7. To self-assess continuously the project process.8. To capitalize the Project ensuring its sustainability.9. To spread the experience to be used by other schools.B. ParticipantsAimed at the entire school community, during school or outside school hours. The active and participative methodology allow us all to learn from everyone and be proud of achieving partial and final objectives of the Project. The integrative essence of our Project allows us not to have to differentiate profiles.C. ActivitiesBased on common scenarios on significant school problems and basic values for the schoolchildren from the partner centers four phases are established:PHASE 1. Transnational meetings in Spain (October 2016) (M1) (5 days) and in Italy (September 2017) (M2) (5 days) for scriptwriting and working plans.PHASE 2. In school and outside school hours and in order to achieve the musical performances the following workshops will be held:1. Body Expression in nature: (A-19) (A-20) To strengthen ties between the participants and develop useful expression techniques.2. Drama in mother tongue: (A-21) 3. Drama in English language: (A-22) 4. Rock-Studio: (A-23) To compose and rehearse songs.5. Choreography: (A-24) To the dance numbers and acrosport.6. Sound and lighting: (A-25) To prepare the technical aspects of the plays.7. Attrezzo and scenography: (A-26) Based on the idea of the recycling of other materials to “wear” the stage.8. Costumes: (A-27) To design and make costumes with recyclable materials.9. Photography and Video: (A-28) (A-29) To prepare the exhibitions of the process, and to disseminate the whole experience.10. Communication and website: (A-30) They will ensure the communication and the feedback needed for the Project.PHASE 3. (March 2017 and March 2018) Each school releases the musical performances in their mother tongue in their own place, and its corresponding round table (A13). Video and photo exhibitions complement the experience at national and international level. (A46)PHASE 4. Two training meetings will be held, lasting 10 days each one:- First, in Germany (May 2017) (C1) - Second, in France (May 2018) (C2) The description of the learning, teaching and training activities will be as follows:1. Body Expression in nature (3 days) (May 2017 and 2018): To encourage empathy group, the language channels and the work environment. (A20)2. Mounting the English musical performance and round table (5 days) (May 2017 and 2018): All the material and human contributions from each partner center for the premiere and exhibitions will be merged during these days. (A14)3. May 2017 (2 days): For the questionnaires of the evaluation of the training meeting (A31), the working groups to develop the script for 2017-18 school year (A32) and a cultural-historic tour around the town. (A33)4. May 2018 (2 days): For the questionnaires of the evaluation of the training meeting (A31) and a cultural-historic tour around the town. (A33)D. MethodologyIt will be active and participatory. Students will lead their own learning process from intuition, deduction and analogy.E. Expected results and impact1. The effort of all the participants will be materialized into concrete actions: musical performances, exhibitions...2. We will subliminally initiate and consolidate educational values very relevant topics to ours students´ life.3. The interdisciplinary cooperative work between the different schools will be valued in the quantitative and qualitative evaluation as a valid formula in dealing with the school failure and the school conflict.4. We will introduce in our schools a new way of working with proven results.F. Benefits If the objectives are met, they will lead to the improvement of the statistics in each partner school. In addition, the young students will have gained more culture, foreign language, sports and social relations.

Final report summary

The initial idea was the fulfillment during 24 months of the 4 phases of the project in each associated center. All the phases have materialized in the different school centers at different rates, that is to say, not all the didactic workshops coincided at the time of their execution, however, all of them were carried out before the premiere of the theater-musical show in the language native.We proposed dates for the premieres of the shows in the training exchanges during each May of the two years of the project, but the German partners did it before for pedagogical and organizational reasons celebrating it in the month of March.In relation to the first phase on the creation of the script of the theater-musical show, there were discrepancies about the content and duration of the performance organizational issues, material resources, use of the stage space..The last phase of the project on the fusion of the show in the learning-teaching-formation meetings was excellent and very satisfactory for all the participants, since we carried out all the activities programmed by the coordinators of these meetings (Germany and France).As we expressed two years ago, the objectives pursued to motivate students towards their school responsibility are detailed at the level of results:1.The reduction of truancy has not been very significant, since once the project is finished, the percentage has not changed much in relation to the project beginning.2.The use of intuitive and deductive methodology has served to develop a different aspect of the project with positive results in achieving the objectives.3.The involvement of the educational community has been impressive, since we have been able to involve our parents, teachers and students in the project development.4.Our project has been constantly self-evaluated.5.The dissemination section has been a fundamental pillar in the duration of the project, as all the partners agree on the importance of this section, performing activities such as theatrical contests, lectures, .., which will be specified in detail in the dissemination section of the Erasmus Final Report.The number of centers associated with the coordinator has been five schools.Regarding the profile of the participating organizations, all the schools have carried out an arduous and effective on the involvement of the educational community in the project, a key and fundamental pillar for its realization.The participation of fathers and mothers, the involvement of teachers in the assembly of the show in each associated center, the coordination and participation in the teaching workshops, the organization of body expression in the nature workshops have been a success.To make a summary of the activities carried out during the project, we will follow the order of the 4 phases of their implementation.1st Phase:We completed the two transnational teachers meetings designed, where we discussed and expressed the development of the project in sections such as dissemination, activities, evaluation ... We created the scripts of each show to be performed in the training meetings.2ndPhase: The didactic workshops and the two body expression in nature workshops were elaborated and developed satisfactorily. They were made before the premiere of the show in each associated center in the native language and of before the two training meetings in Germany and France.3rd Phase: The premieres of the shows were carried out in each associated center in their mother tongue. The only difference in this phase was that some schools did it on dates different from the one indicated in the project for pedagogical and organizational reasons.4th Phase: The two training sessions were held both in Germany in March 2017 and in France in May 2018. The three differentiated parts were developed in each meeting, so that the body expression in the nature workshops were held in the nature during the first three days, five days for the fusion of the didactic workshops and premiere of the show in English language and one day for cultural and social activities.In relation to the results of the different sections of the project, the following aspects of the final report will be meticulously detailed, which, in summary, have been relevant for the educational community. And in relation to the impact achieved in the different associated centers, it is necessary to add the consolidation of the human and social values developed during the project in our students. And the consolidation and sustainability of the theater as a parallel and extracurricular activity in the associated centers as a training complement for our students.We hope that the following objectives will be achieved: - Reduction of truancy by motivating our students with stage and theatrical activities.Interest and motivation for learning a second language.Social values will be strengthened in our students.Interest for learning a second language.

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