Preventing school violence requires collaboration on the part of all school personnel. The perceptions of teachers and school counselors with regard to school violence are perhaps the most important point in terms of creating violence-free schools. According to Fisher and Kettle (2003), teachers and school mental health professionals have more experience and insight than anyone else in terms of what happens in school and how school systems function within a larger schema; in spite of this their understanding of school violence has not been studied sufficiently. Zeira, Astor, & Benbenishty (2003) claim that a comparison of viewpoints of teachers from different backgrounds may contribute to a deeper understanding of the issue, making this a vital element for developing meaningful interventions.A number of factors can increase the risk of the youth engaging in violence at school. However, the presence of these factors does not always mean that a young person will become an offender. Risk factors for school and youth violence include: • Prior history of violence • Drug, alcohol, or tobacco use • Association with delinquent peers • Poor family functioning • Poor grades in school • Poverty in the communityIn 2004, on Council of Europe initiative, the young around the Europe prepared the European Act for the Democratic and Non-Violent Schools based on the basic values and principles shared by all the Europeans, especially the values featured in the European Convention Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. These young people suggest that schools around the Europe should look over this act for it using as a model to promote democratic and non-violent schooling.The best of the school stakeholders are teachers, students, parents, environmental schools and the relevant units of the Ministry. Student-Teacher-School Environment are a whole. The student is the most important part of this. To give good quality education to students, firstly, away from chaos, violence and crime, must provide a safe school environment. It is thougt to gain positive behaviour to students by projects outputs applied directly into school environment, and providing safe school environment to set up best standarts for education. In long term the project will create a safe school environment for teachers and students, it will also provide for instution to become prestigious and preferred instution.In addition these, it is expected to contribute issues such as participating teachers and students profile, to contribute to language development, creating the idea of collaborating, use tine effectively, discipline and planning work.The project is formed by 6 schools from 5 countries , Spain, Turkey(2 schools),Italy,United Kingdom,Poland. Common goals of these partners are:*to prevent youth violence and promote healthy child development by promoting comprehensive educational, mental health, social, law enforcement, and juvenile justice services;*to reduce violence and improve the overall school environment;*to take numerous steps to improve school connectedness in order to promote learning and to reduce negative outcomes, such as violence;*to create a comprehensive plan based on a multilevel strategy that seeks to build and maintain a peaceful school campus by implementing prevention activities.This project suggest sharing experiences and information about safety and peaceful schools among the European schools which are included in the project. By using a new approach, technology,mobilities, e-learning and English, we want to reach at noticeable results. Learning by doing, constructisim methodology, e-learning, social networks, cooperative learning, and project work are the appropriate approaches. During the activities, the participants will improve respect for the other cultures. With this project, the students will learn some skills and necessary competences for being a European citizen and for their personal development. The products of this project will be presented with the help of educational institutions. These products will be open to public, so they will help people who want to learn something about how to provide more safety in school education.
More Peaceful Schools; Stop violence and provide safety in School Education is a 2016 24 month Erasmus + K219 project, involving only schools. The exchange of good practices is the main objective of this project of the "Strategic Partnerships" action coordinated by the Bezmiliana IES (Rincón de la Victoria). The main horizontal priority of the project is performance and efficiency in learning, for which non-formal methods will be used and emphasis will be placed on the use of new technologies as a learning tool. It is intended that the students of the participating centers participate in the creation of a communication network, which will allow to acquire new linguistic and technological competences. At the same time, it is also intended that students become aware of the meaning of European citizenship and the globalized environment in which they will develop their professional careers. Respect for other nationalities, other cultures and other religions is another priority of the project, hence the diversity of participating schools. Other priorities of the project are to offer a quality education and strengthen the profile of the teacher, this is achieved by improving skills in the resolution of different types of conflicts and the acquisition of digital skills in both teachers and students. Six educational schools from 5 countries (Turkey, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, Poland) participate in the project. The election of the participants ensures diversity in terms of students and faculty; thus we can find confessional centers (Catholic and Muslim), non-denominational, public, private. IES Bezmiliana, Spain: Center with 1500 students of secondary education and vocational training Mehmetçik Anadolu Lisesi, Corum (Turkey): It has 1000 students in secondary education and has an internship Istituto Comprensivo Corrado Melone, Italy: Secondary education school for 1000 students XIV Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace, Poland: 450 students receive vocational training classes Oaklands Catholic School, United Kingdom: Secondary education school with 1400 students Yenimahalle Ataturk Ortaokulu Ankara (Turkey): Provides secondary education to 1400 students It is a project that has a large number of activities, highlighting those aimed at the control of anger by students and teachers, activities on road safety, safety in the event of an incident or catastrophe and safety in the use of new technologies. Workshops of mindfulness and informal seminars; these last ones also destined to the tutors of the students. Interactive games have been developed for the knowledge of road signs, as a way to ensure safe access to / from a school. This activity has been accompanied by seminars (given by experts) about road safety. The students have prepared brochures that cover all the objectives included in the project. The celebration of the international day of homophobia, transphobia and biphobia has been organized. Music therapy workshops have been developed to improve socialization and reduce the stress of students and teachers. They have organized informal seminars aimed at students and their legal guardians in which they show how they should act in situations that can occur in the school (evacuations, bullying, bullying on the network). The results obtained from the project are available on the website created specifically for the project, https://sites.google.com/view/morepeacefulschools/, where it is possible to see videos of the activities carried out, results of the surveys, brochures and in general all the materials produced during the project, and publicly. A private learning platform has been created, https://www.ies-bezmiliana.org/mps/, where it is possible to access courses on security on the internet. As a long-term benefit we can highlight the use by teachers of new tools, moodle online teaching platform, google tools, forms, video channel. This knowledge will result in the quality of the teaching that it will offer to its future students. The use of outputs produced will help schools with the development of a comprehensive plan that allows the creation of a safe school. The material outputs of the project, such as brochures, videos and presentations, will be used in the educational schools later. The moodle platform created for this purpose will continue to function and its contents can be used later. The acquired experience by the students will allow them to work in groups, develop personal and social skills, improve their linguistic skills, have a European conscience.