The LILAC project aims to develop a common teaching method among international partners, geared to combat early school leaving, to foster inclusion and to simplify the professional integration through specific workshops. They will treat topics related to current events, civic education, vocational training and women's empowerment, particularly as for equal opportunities. The English language, used as the vehicular language, allows to overcome the inequalities due to the heterogeneity and to plug any starting skills gaps. Thanks to project management criteria we aim to develop teaching methods oriented to use for training workshops.1) Creating an exportable method which is shared at European level for adult education.2) Widening the base of experiences to include the widest range of users.3) Most effective transfer of information as possible through frequent SAP, to be able to intervene on the issues that may come up.Starting with an analysis of each local area, the skills will be allocated according to specific criteria which take account of:1. Composition of classes as well as the number and age of the students2. Check of the didactic uniformity3. Compliance with the project time allocated to each task (identification of a partner who verifies the consistency in timing and respect of deadlines)4. Check of the functionality and performance of the teaching method through a pre-implementation phase.5. Development of a common profile and a communication phase that considers the ones related to design and implementation.The workshop approach results, through a shared method of evaluation, will be available to other schools as well, so that the teaching method becomes easily replicable for all. Our purpose is to promote students mobility even out of their usual context.The laboratories that will be developed as a teaching method aim to set activities related to vocational training (KITCHEN, THEATRE, MOSAIC, INTERIOR DESIGN), the European Civic Education (VOLUNTEER AND CITIZENSHIP EUROPEAN UNION, legality 'and EMPLOYMENT), the improvement of communication tools, promotion and personal development (APPLIED ECONOMICS, ENGLISH LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION).Guidelines that will be followed in the implementation of the project are:1) Frequent communication: regular meetings between partners to assign tasks, determine and deal with critical revisions.2) Short-term results: we intend to complete any educational laboratory within four months from approval.3) Monitoring and reporting: open and shared communication among the partners so as to allow to immediately manifest problems and successes of activities. 4) Overall evaluation of the results: at the end of the course each school will provide a project closure report which will evaluate the performance of each activity of the overall framework.The fundamental aim is to rapidly achieve the project objectives.It is of utmost importance the learning experience of the students, while providing practical tools to help the students more likely to get a qualified professional integration on the one hand , and teachers to offer an innovative alternative teaching method on the other.
PROJECT N ° 6 "LILAC, KA2 - COOPERATION AND INNOVATION FOR THE EXCHANGE OF GOOD PRACTICES, STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP FOR THE EDUCATION OF ADULTS, ERASMUS +" Project name number and prophile of the organization LILAC, KA2 - Cooperation and innovation for the exchange of good practices, Strategic partnership for adult education, Erasmus +. Partners The association "Udruga Mala Philozofija" (Croatia), asshociation, which works on philosophy and logics, the association SES_SEBE_SPOLU (Czech Republic), which works on preparation and relationships between teachers and students Eti Lisesi High School of Eskisehir (Turkey), high school specialized in Social Sciences the SISAM association of Ravenna with a mosaic and fresco school, LILEC of the Faculty of Languages of the University of Bologna, specialized in Didactics of Italian as Second Language, main partner school CPIA Ravenna - Lugo, school with Italian as a Second Language courses and First level Education courses Esame di terza media Reasons: ESL and the disparities in learning outcomes are due to a number of reasons. An important factor is the low motivation of the students. Unmotivated students are often in a state of poverty, social discomfort and isolation. Often, they are immigrants with little knowledge of the laws, the culture, the habits of the country, where they emigrated. Different educational models and low literacy are common problems. Sometimes, students have a good level of literacy, but big difficulties in L2. In many cases they need to keep up with homework and lessons because they do not attend classes regularly. A typical situation is the need for them to go periodically and return to their homeland. All these factors influence the learning process. We are focused on overcoming these difficulties. As the research points out, young people who leave school early will have less job opportunities, or face socio-economic disadvantage, along with other difficulties Aims Shared objectives among the partners are: - reduce disparities in learning and ESL results - promote integration, tolerance and active citizenship - support students in the process of "learning to learn" - the autonomy of adoptive students, personal initiative, motivation to learn - improve students' basic and transversal skills - improve teachers' skills and competences - improve the language skills of students, in particular, of English, and writing skills or Italian as second language promote to ESL students the Cultural Heritage knowledge of the Partners’ countries - - research into new teaching methods and creative approach Helping with students to use new technology Internet, computer programs, smartphone programs and so on Planned activities A first meeting, only for teachers, will plan and define the details of the project: - the guidelines for planning and managing the project - guidelines for the overall organization (for example, MICE, evaluation plan and student mobility plan) - activities, shared objectives, methods, tools - the exchange program with students and teachers A final meeting will be dedicated to: - evaluate the results - define the dissemination plan - define agreement for the sustainability of the project in the following two years - present the projects to the interested parties, through a special event in Italy Mobilizing students and teachers Mobility will take place in Zadar, Prague, Bologna, Ravenna and Eskisehir. Each mobility will be attended by two teachers with a variable number of students. Describe of undertaken main activities The mobility includes guided tours of the host city, educational workshops, intercultural workshops, cooking workshops, frescoes and mosaics. Project includes visits to location of the schools, visits to European commission department in Prague, visits to museums of high tech in Prague, museums of the history of photography in Bologna, lessons about motivation in schools and at universities, visits to Science museum in Turkey. and so on and so forth. Each activity will be carried out in English, in order to deepen the second language. A website of the European project has been created and a digital book will be created at the end of the project. Financial resources required Complete financing of the project by Erasmusplus. Duration of the project Start of the project 06/09/2016 End of the project 05/09/2018 Longer term benefits after the end of project will be connected with the creation of an International Survey, about the theme ESL, linked to questionaries, created by the Czech Partners. The Italian and the Turkish partners as European high schools will cooperate. We have the idea that in the Italian school, we could use foreign students as cultural mediators for the ESL interview The results and impact attained Due to the fact that our project is linked to ESL, most of all we have seen are results in a very good sharing of good practices. First, results concern the students, who have participated