Having regard to the speeding up of social rhythms, and its effects on the family lead to malfunction of the most important in the dynamics of the harmonious development of the child, it is justified, more than ever, the need for a fruitful collaboration between parents and school. Identification of new techniques and methods of communication and relating to the frame with his family, in order to arrive at some favorable answers and efficient solutions for improving cooperation school – parents, is a mission of our project. The purpose of this combined approach is to form the children competences and skills to adapt to an ever-changing world the management committee responsible for the motivation, so that the acquisitions learned at school can be transferred successfully to the daily life situations. Children will be taught by means of the school, how to take over and to make use of learning experiences and good practices offered through the involvement and example of the parents of the family that are the base in the education of the child. Concerns in this respect, there have been during several years in our schools, which have carried out a variety of educational programs. We decided to compare these concerns with other European countries. The students will be motivated to have a positive attitude in the efficient use of knowledge and information and the skills acquired at school to know how to live and how to give stability and meaning to their lives by comparison with other features and experiences of life proposed by the partner countries in this project. Throughout the project, both teachers and students will become aware of the differences and similarities of each Partner country. Students and parents will be involved in the joint activities to improve relationships and communication, working and revealing together common values. Each partner will carry on, in addition to the joint activities of the project, other activities at Community level in the schools, pursuing together school activities, extracurricular activities, together with the school and other factors in the Community. The project will promote the exchange of information between partners, this being carried out in large part on a dedicated website activity for the project, e-mail or Facebook. However, mobility will be very important for both staff and students from each partner, through these schools having the chance to learn more about the culture, traditions and customs of the other Partner countries. Children will have new opportunities to compare the life style in general and of the family, in particular, crops other countries in Europe, will show tolerance and empathy for the values and beliefs of our colleagues, ensuring through this behavior sustainability and growth of the future European citizen. Thus, students will be involved in: - the joint activities for the duration of the implementation of the partnership, - developing the skills of ICT by the production of a film representative for the message of the project to which will contribute all the partners of the project. - the development of the feeling of European citizenship - improve knowledge about the different cultures and languages of the European Community - encouraging to international cooperation; - Promotion of the identity of the united in diversity through special notes related to the language, culture and civilisation national law in the European context - This project aims to achieve the following priorities: to encourage a sustainable development and transferability of projects, of innovative products and the exchange of best practice, encourage and stimulate people with fewer opportunities for participation in the projects, involvement in schools situated in areas
The context from which our project is born is in the belief that once school begins, there is a need for active family involvement. The mission of the families is to support the education of their children initiated within the family and continue through the school, being necessary an active involvement in school activities. When the two educational contexts, school and family, meet, complement and support each other, they would allow a good integration of the child, both in school activities and in social life, to affect the economic, social or cultural environment of the family. Under this premise our project is born with three main objectives which are: 1.- To build a true beneficial partnership between school and family through a relationship based on collaboration, communication, participation and responsibility. In this way, we have managed to consolidate the role of families with respect to their ability to educate, we have promoted the closeness of both educational environments and we have established the ties of family participation in the educational institution. 2.- To know the teaching staff different educational models that will be of help in their activities. The three participating institutions have learned new methods, new communication techniques and relationships with parents. Counseling activities for parents have been carried out as workshops for families and families have carried out school activities and extracurricular activities. 3.- Students have participated in a series of activities with the objective of improving their participation in their own personal development. Both the mobilities and the activities carried out in our own institution have served our students. We have experienced some enriching experiences that have allowed their personal development both intrapersonal and interpersonal, enhancing relationship values as well as an approach to other cultures. The three objectives coincide with our project target groups that encompass the educational community of our center. Families have been our main group since the main objective has been to involve them in the life of the center. As described in the third objective, students have also played a very important role in the design and planning of activities and, finally, the teaching staff of the center has also played a key role in two lines. The first of them, as an objective group to form to learn about new methods, strategies and practices of communication, relationship and involvement of families. On the other hand, because of the imperative need for its involvement in order to develop this ambitious project that we started two years ago. There have been many activities that have been developed throughout the project to achieve the proposed objectives. Below we highlight the most relevant: 1.- Project logo through an online contest among the students of the three centers. This logo has been the emblem that has represented in our drawing the philosophy of our project. 2.- Creation of the e-twininig page where we have published the activities and materials carried out throughout the project. 3.- Leaflet "Children ask-Families respond", material that has allowed us to observe that the culture or country in question does not matter since the concerns of adolescents are the same. 4.- Family Workshop: place that has served to offer families educational guidelines for the not easy task of educating and where families have been able to expose their concerns or the difficulties that arise in the educational process. 5.- Family album: during the mobility to Lithuania, the students produced a beautiful family album with images of the most representative of family time and where all family members appear. 6.- Calendar: We have prepared an emotional calendar in which the most significant moments of this whole project appear, also including a specific national element in order to promote national identity at European level. 7.- Good practices brochure: dossier in which the successful actions that we have known from each of the countries are collected and that will serve as a basis for establishing a positive and effective involvement of families. We would like to emphasize that having allowed our institution to participate in a European project has contributed to open our institution to other educational realities, expand our network of successful educational actions related to the involvement of families in the school, increase the personal development of teachers , families and our students and establish communication ties that will guarantee the success of our students.