IS&CA project have been created to contribute to the quality of life and social acceptance of the refugees, to improve professional qualifications of English teachers, to increase self-confidence of the students and to make them like their school by revealing their creative side and to create awareness of European citizenship on the students.United Nations High Commissioner has stated that we are faced with the highest number of people who were displaced forcibly in the last century, in its report dated December 30, 2015. In the same study, it is explained that mostly young women are exploited among people who were displaced forcibly. Therefore, young women who are not literate and who do not speak foreign language have been selected as the target group in the refugee topic of our project. The studies are aimed to increase the prestige of refugee women, to facilitate social adaptation, to encourage them for production and to make them happy where they live. At the first stage, with the support of municipalities, the surrounding schools and health centers we will determine 24 young refugee women who live in difficult conditions and who have the risk of escaping to other countries , through surveys and face to face meetings, and we will encourage them for language and skills training. In Turkey and in Greece a native speaker teacher will give 100-hour language course. In the 2nd phase of the project, a handcraft courses which will allow the refugees to demonstrate and improve their handcraft skills will be opened. Handcraft works will also be conducted under the guidance of expert teachers. Upon completion of the first stage of the study, such studies will continue as a loop, with the women who were determined previously through surveys and face to face meetings.It is observed that, , mainly with traditional, grammar based and rote language teaching methods used for years did not show the expected impact on the students, bother the students, reduce the interest to language courses and increase the tendency of absenteeism. "Active And Cooperative Learning" teacher training is included in our project in order to change the paradigms, to make teaching and learning fun, to enable the students to functionally use the language they have learned. Active And Cooperative Learning seminar will be given to 16 English teachers by an expert teacher as a 30-hour seminar. It is foreseen that the teachers taking the training, will make the English courses pleasant by student-centered approach and the interest and success will increase. All the learning activities planned in the process will be recorded in a DVD and the DVD will be available for the use of teachers and all beneficiaries.According to OECD report of 2014, Turkey, Greece, Italy and Spain have the highest absenteeism rate among the project partner OECD countries. Our research has revealed that students find the courses and school boring due to classical teaching methods, so they tend to be absent. "Creative practices workshops" will be opened in Turkey, Greece and in Latvian schools, in order to find a solution to the absenteeism problem and to make learning and school attractive, and solidarist and entertaining teamwork will be provided where the students convert their theoretical knowledge into tangible products with collaborative applications and they have the opportunity to reveal their creativity. Primary objective of the workshops will be the students who have low academic achievement, high absenteeism and risk of leaving the school. Specialist teachers will guide the creative workshops. Workshops will be open for the students after completion of the project. The creative products will be displayed with labels carrying EU logo, a statement that funded by EU and project name and logo.With the European citizenship studies, we aim to our students, teachers and parents to become modern, pioneer, peaceful and qualified individuals, who have adopted the democratic values of European Union, are against all forms of discrimination, have improved coexistence culture, are capable of empathy, have high self-confidence and are open to international and intercultural cooperation. We will measure the efficiency of the studies on this issue and the awareness we developed on our target group with the attitude scale to be implemented at the beginning and end of the project.Quality control of all our studies in our project will be done by satisfaction surveys, monitoring and evaluation reports and comparison of the student absenteeism.
The IS & CA project was carried out in order to contribute to the quality of life and social acceptance of refugees, to improve the professional qualifications of the English teachers, to help students to trust themselves by revealing their creative side and to make them love the school and to raise awareness on European citizenship. The aim of our project was to increase the dignity of young refugees who are illiterate and non-linguist, to facilitate social adaptations, to encourage production and to ensure their happiness in the place where they live. With the support of the municipality, the surrounding schools and health centers, 21 young refugees who live in harsh conditions, who are at risk of escaping to other countries, have received language and skills training. A native language teacher gave a 128-hour course to meet daily communication needs. In the second phase of the project, a craftwork course was opened, allowing refugees to demonstrate and develop their skills. However, refugee students did not show their interest in craft workshop. It was observed that, mainly with traditional, grammar based and rote language teaching methods used for years did not show the expected impact on the students, bother the students, reduce the interest to language courses and increase the tendency of absenteeism. "Active And Cooperative Learning" teacher training was included in our project in order to change the paradigms, to make teaching and learning fun, to enable the students to functionally use the language they have learned. Active And Cooperative Learning seminar was given to 17 teachers as a 30-hour seminar. All the learning activities planned in the process was recorded in a DVD and it was served for the use of teachers and all beneficiaries. Creative workshops were opened in Turkish and Latvian schools in order to solve the absenteeism problems in schools and to make learning and to turn the schools attractive places. Our students have turned their theoretical knowledge into concrete products in co-operation, they had the opportunity to reveal their creativity, they realized solidarity and fun teamwork. Primary objective of the workshops were the students who have low academic achievement, high absenteeism and risk of leaving the school. Specialist teachers guided the creative workshops. Quality control of the studies were measured by satisfaction surveys, by monitoring evaluation reports and by comparing student absenteeism rates.The creative products were displayed with labels carrying EU logo, a statement that funded by EU and project name and logo. With the European citizenship studies, we aimed to our students and teachers to become modern, pioneer, peaceful and qualified individuals, who are against all forms of discrimination, have improved coexistence culture, are capable of empathy, have high self-confidence and are open to international and intercultural cooperation. We measured the efficiency of the studies on this issue and the awareness we developed on our target group with the attitude scale to be implemented at the beginning and end of the project. We shared our activities on www.ispaniol.net/comenius project website.