This is the project "Different Yet the Same" which is in a collaboration with four schools from four different countries (Turkey, Italy, Spain and Czech Republic) to improve the academic success and motivation of migrant students, to encourage them to continue education until the end, to provide identification, to adapt them by enabling quicker adaptation and to include children from low social - culture environment and to include minorities. . Czech Republic is the coordinator country and the language of communication in the project is English. Our goals; - to increase their education potential, - to raise their motivation, - to improve and strengthen their intercultural skills, - to merge with their peers, - to facilitate their adaptation, - to recognize and promote cultural values, - to help them to explore their identity, - to encourage them to continue their education until the end of life as smootly by preparing for the future. Migrant children or children of minorities in the 7-14 age range will benefit from the project, but the 10-14 age group of migrant (minorities) students will participate to country visits. 68 students and 32 teachers will participate to country visits for the two years project. We have prepared a work schedule of 24 months. Children will explore and introduce their own cultural values, make handmade products by using old techniques and traditional tools, learn and teach traditional games, draw the map of ethnic and cultural diversity, draw pictures describing their lives and exhibit them, prepare the compliance programs and logo with their teachers. Through partnership, teachers will prepare best practices compliance program for migrant students and lesson plans that explore birthday and identity, gender and identity, migration and identity, values and identity, e-learning platform on Moodle, the integration plan. During the project period in 4 countries, we have planned learning, teaching, training activities. As teachers we will visit classes in each school during these events, see good examples, recognize the curriculum and education system. Students will participate in the activities planned in conjuction with students from other partner schools. Teachers will develop lesson plans and programs together. In this project, the methodologies such as brainstorming, teamwork, interdisciplinary learning, workshops, e-learning will be used mostly. With the help of this project the migrant (minorities) students will have tolerance, self confidence, motivation, gain the recognition of cultural value of different identities and have the opportunity to promote their cultural values, different religions, languages and discover the richness of having race; they will improve ICT, communication in foreign languages and intercultural skills and their training potential will increase, they will want to continue their education until the end of their lives. The participating teachers will be aware of the educational functioning of different countries by making international cooperation, will have the team spirit, problem solving and they will grow ICT skills, have the opportunity to learn about different cultures and they will develop new methods and programs. During and at the end of the project we will have outputs such as plan booklet, e-learning platform on Moodle, best practices compliance program booklet, integration action plan as an e-book, e-twinning project, migration map, logos, project board, project banner, project web page to develop the identity of the migrant students. We will prepare the beginning and end of the academic success of migrant students with the help of the project and compare the statistics. All participants from each country will implement satisfaction surveys after the meeting. Thus we understand whether we reach or not. In the first in transnational meetings in Spain we will discuss project management and implementation, using the budget efficiently, dissemination and outputs. In the final meeting in Turkey we will compare the statistics of the success of migrant students. We will evaluate the project and we will prepare the final report. Partners will be in constant communication with each other through the internet and watsapp and fulfill all of the tasks; all participants will be responsible for dissemination. We will invite local media, our local managers, families, neighbor schools, associations, sponsor companies and and other stakeholders to our project activities. Everyone can contact with us and use and take our project 's results and activities by establishing social networking sites such as web pages, e-twinning , the Moodle platform, local media, the internet media, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Linkedin, Twitter.
This was the project "Different Yet the Same" which was in a collaboration with four schools from four different countries (Turkey - Mersin, Italy - Lodi, Spain - Malaga and Czech Republic - Sumperk) to improve the academic success and motivation of migrant students and minorities, to encourage them to continue education until the end, to provide identification, to adapt them by enabling quicker adaptation and to include children from low social - culture environment and to include minorities. Czech Republic was the coordinator country and the language of communication in the project was English. The Czech school integrated children from Roma ethnic, teachers understood they feelings now and parents of children understood that education is important for their children, The Turkish school included many children from Syria and Kurdish and Arab ethnic. Italian school integrated disable children to sociaty. Spanish school included children from Africa and children from excluded area. We increased their education potential, raised their motivation, improved their intercultural skills,merged with their peers,facilitated their adaptation, recognized and promoted cultural values, helped them to explore their identity, encouraged them to continue their education until the end of life as smootly by preparing for the future. The objective of this project was to find and test various ways how to help minority/refugee/handicapped children or students with fewer opportunities or poor/outstanding school performance integrate in the mainstream educational process and be respected and help other members of the school community to open their minds and be tolerant and cooperative and not to look for simple solutions. We used various activities and methodology to achieve the desired objective and would like most of them to become an integral part of our school curricula. Those activities included the creation of teaching/study material to be used with students with fewer opportunities, students with poor/outstanding school performance or students whose mother tongue is different from the national language. These materials (worksheets, presentations) were created, tested and reviewed during the two years of the project duration and should become a common aid now, after the project is completed. Hundreds of migrant children, children of minorities and from excluded areas in the 8-14 age range were benefit from the project. Children explored and introduced their own cultural values, made handmade products by using old techniques and traditional tools, learnt and tough traditional games, draw the map of ethnic and cultural diversity, made presentation of early human migration, listened presentations of foreign students about their countries, drew pictures describing their lives and exhibit them, prepared the compliance programs and logo with their teachers. Through partnership, teachers prepared best practices compliance program for migrant students and lesson plans that explored birthday and identity, gender and identity, migration and identity, values and identity, teachers prepared e-learning platform, where were e-learning presentations for easy teaching of minorities, the integration plan. As teachers we visited classes in each school during these events, saw good examples, recognized the curriculum and education system. Students participated in the activities planned in conjuction with students from other partner schools. Teachers developped lesson plans and programs together. In this project, the methodologies such as brainstorming, teamwork, interdisciplinary learning, workshops, e-learning were used mostly. We used e-twinning platform, where we uploaded our activities in each country. With the help of this project the migrant (minorities) students increased their tolerance, self confidence, motivation, gained the recognition of cultural value of different identities and students had the opportunity to promote their cultural values, different religions, languages and discovered the richness of having race; they improved ICT, communication in foreign languages and intercultural skills and their training potential increased, they wanteed to continue their education until the end of their lives. The participating teachers are aware of the educational functioning of different countries by making international cooperation, had the team spirit, problem solving and they grew their ICT skills, had the opportunity to learn about different cultures and they developped new methods and programms. During and at the end of the project we had outputs such as, e-learning platform on Internet with many teaching presentation, best practices compliance program booklet, e-book with our activities, photos and videos, e-twinning project, project website.