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School Without Walls

2016-1-TR01-KA201-0343062016Strategic Partnerships for school educationfinalized
Countries: TR|RO|EL|PL · Grant: €142,750
New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training coursesRegional dimension and cooperationEarly School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project summary

The models which support learners to learn by experiencing and having fun and the cirriculum applications in which learning process is supported by visual and auditory materials as much as it can be ensure students learning easier and more persistent.The physical disabilities and limited budgets of school with some bureaucratic procedures causes practising activities which require learning by experiencing in a limited way for teachers.At this point;the connection between institutions and organizations in business as a social stakeholder in different fields of education with schools will contribute to enrichment of school education in every sense,and enable that learning will be funnier and more persistent by moving the school education beyond the walls .less conformity to gender stereotypes.Extracurricular activities are part of students every day life. They play important roles in student’s lives. They have positive effects on student’s lives by improving behavior, school performance, school completion, positive aspects to make successful adults, and social aspects. As teachers, we need to be aware of the effects that extracurricular activities have on education.The project "School without walls" is connected with development and exchange of good practices between Romania,Greece, Poland and Turkey in the field of academic and extracurricular activities involving transmission of the educational process into museums, Environmental education centers, cultural directorate in regional level. Integration of the schools and these institutions to assure conditions for development of students’ potential and their active attitude in acquiring knowledge, skills and competence by practical,cultural and experimental activities for successful socialization and realization in their future life and work. For instance students can have chance to apply what they have learned in labratory works for social science lessons. Encouraging innovations in pedagogical methods, implemented by the teaching staff, stimulating creativity and innovation in multilingual and multicultural environment.This Strategic Partnerships main goals are:1. Creating a rich basis of products in partner countries languages and English language, based on interaction between schools and other institutions following the regulations in secondary(high) school education.2. Exchanging good practices and preparing didactic packs include modern technologies for collaboration and mutual understanding, according to the main goal - increasing European dimension of school education.3. Developing creative thinking and active behavior of students in school activities of different character with extracurricular activities and decreasing early school leaving4.Socialization and understanding relations in the social environment, tolerant attitude to the diversity in nature and society.5. Enriching the school surroundings by integrative practical activities.6. Developing and improving professional competence of the pedagogical staff by using the rich cultural –historical inheritance and natural resources for improving the effectiveness of school education and the process of developing student's personality.7. Establishing permanent tendency in applying and popularization of new products and methods in the educational process.8. Effective realization of the principle of network collaboration between different educational and cultural organizations.9. Getting to know each other and making personal contacts and friendship among the participants in the project from different countries and motivating the partners to improve their language competence.9. Establishing a spirit of tolerance while exchanging good educational practices among the countries.Project's main outputs , Innovative Learning Basic Tool kit,Good Practices Booklet and Lesson Plans and extracurricular activities will help to solve the educational problems are:- diversification of school life - increasing the motivation of students for active behavior in the school process and prevent early school leaving - formation of positive attitudes towards conservation, enrichment and social commitment to the environment;- tolerance and respect among the different cultural-ethnic and social groups;- increasing the professional competence of pedagogical staff and applying modern methods and approaches in school and extracurricular activities;- incorporating society and institutions towards educational problems and goals in school.This project involves the wide range of participation of institutions(16 partners) from regional directorates to junior high schools,museums to law concultancy,environmental centers to cultural directorates.It shows that education is our common interest and problem so we want to use this strong will to strengthen teachers' professional skills,enrich the curriculum and share the good practices in whole Europe.

Final report summary

Upon starting the project, its objectives were carefully studied by the team of teachers from all partners. Therefore, our goal was to accomplish the project objectives. Through the activities which we carried out we contributed to the development of our institution and of our teachers’ expertise, as well as to the improvement of our students’ skills. According to the project, the objectives established by collaborating with our partners were: acknowledging and preserving the rich heritage belonging to a composite culture (museums, cultural directorates and institutions); protecting and improving the environment, including forests, lakes, rivers and the wild life; encouraging compassion for living creatures (environment centres, NGOs); developing an inclination towards science, humanities, research and reform initiatives. In order to achieve institutional developments of all partners, all partners collaborated with local and regional qualified institutions so as to highlight the particularities of the regional nature and culture through educational activities. We successfully collaborated with institutions such as museums and universities and NGOs..We closely observed the way in which our project partners collaborated with partners from their own regions and we successfully exchanged good practices when organising activities within mobilities. The teachers of projects who took part in the project managed to successfully attain its objectives, put effort in order to carry out the activities in an adequate manner, found ways to develop and apply innovative practices, accomplished their own activities focused on research and on the thorough study of topics related to culture, science or environment protection. Five teachers from partner schools who took part in the training session in Greece have applied the practical abilities acquired there upon their return to our school; in addition, they themselves organised a range of extracurricular activities where they put into practice the knowledge acquired during the transnational experience. The pupils of the schools were strongly motivated by the anticipation of taking part in extracurricular activities in an international context, as well as of accomplishing an educational journey abroad. They have enthusiastically participated in all activities, collaborated with their teachers and, at the end of their activities, they attained a wider perspective on the necessity of preserving their natural and cultural environment. Socialising with the pupils from the partner countries and the experience exchange have led to the improvement of the school life and to the formation of a wider perspective on the quality of education within all partner schools; furthermore, it led to the formation of opinions regarding European educational standards, which are essential for their future.

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