Project: "All different ... so what? " Teaching practices for school success for all. Target group: students from 3 to 11 years. Project duration: two years (from 01.09.2017 to 31.08.2019) Project languages: French Mobility: mobility five days in each country to be spread over the two years of the project. Priorities: The project "All different ... so what? " teaches practices for school success for all committed five schools from five different countries (Romania, France, Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece). All welcome very different students regardless their social origins, ethnicities, skin colors, religions, cultures. Some of them may have disabilities or severe learning difficulties. Every child should be able to progress throughout their education and build a freely chosen future. In fact, the school is unequal and does not offer the same opportunities for success to all. Driven by the same values, we do not think it's inevitable that it would submit and seek instead to combat school failure. This will be our top priority throughout our project. For our little students (aged 3-11), who will become adults one day, we can build a better, more tolerant world. We also have the purpose to make them aware that the difference, diversity is an asset of which we must not be afraid. We will organize activities in which our students will face collective experiments and we will make sure they are real actors and everyone can find his place. Practices exchanges, shared tools or built by partners help teachers to the whole progress in their learning process and also it will help them to better accept the difference. With this project, in a spirit of openness, we seek to: discover other approaches, build common tools, learn new job skills and give a real dimension to the concept of "European citizenship".
Contextual elements: In this Erasmus project titled "" All Different ... and then? "- Pedagogical Practices for a School of Achievement for All", schools from five European countries have cooperated by targeting students aged 3 to 11 . The schools were very diverse, rural or more urban, accommodating disadvantaged populations or populations of immigrant background, many of them practicing the inclusion of children with disabilities. But despite these differences, there was one essential common point, a fundamental reflection: how can we make progress ALL children, without neglecting any, what tools to put in place, what methods to use so that each child can be taken into account in its specificities. Of course, there were already devices and work habits for the teachers involved, but there was a common desire to go further in their classroom practices. The typology of the participating organizations: the schools of the five countries, Greece, France, Bulgaria, Romania and Estonia were sometimes purely nursery or elementary schools, but many welcomed pupils from 3 to 11 years old at least, sometimes even shared a proximity and locals with older students (college, high school), which has also allowed the mobility to visit and involve many different classes of age. Objectives: This project was spread over 2 years and its main objective was the dissemination of a universal message on tolerance, respect and acceptance of differences. In other words, the students have been led throughout this project to identify the differences, understand the fundamentals and apprehend the riches. In this context, we worked to: Develop knowledge of cultural differences within the classroom Develop respect for these differences Raise awareness of the struggle for human rights through the discovery of some events or figures for elementary classes To arouse the curiosity of the participants about the tales of other cultures and peoples. Tackling stereotypes and prejudices about the values of other cultures Raise curiosity about other peoples, cultures, music and languages Challenge the opinions of the participants and create a good atmosphere within the group Allow children to approach the theme of difference in a lively way, emphasizing acceptance of it, true integration, and better living together. Through our work we wanted to show our students and then to all the close actors that we are in fact very similar. Our differences enrich life in common. The difference must not be a reason for rejection. Understanding the usefulness of diversity leads to denying any form of exclusion. Racism, social exclusion, none of this is justified. The second goal was the fight against school failure. We believe that it is essential to make a differentiated pedagogy that takes into account the difficulties of each: - To meet needs previously identified in students (because students do not progress at the same speed, because they do not have the same repertoire of behaviors, because they are not motivated to achieve the same goals ...). - To enable each student to master the knowledge and skills of the common core. - To fight against dropping out of school, but also to bring each pupil to the maximum of his potential. Activities implemented: The activities were very numerous and very diverse, no doubt reflecting the extent of the issues raised by this project. They were meant to help children, to make them more active in learning. But also to motivate some students discouraged by their failures, it will restore the desire to learn. Results achieved: 1. Strengthen communication and solidarity. 2.Develop the imagination, creativity and critical thinking of the child through the game. 3. Get the child to gain more autonomy in his work by using the educational tools created. 4.Create the desire to know each other and awaken a common cultural awareness, give a common European identification 5.Valuate children who are often withdrawn. 6. Improve children's skills in games and sharing, cooperation and mutual aid. The impacts are important for both students and teachers, because this project, which was very rich and went very well, creating strong friendships, made it possible to advance in the problematic raised: how to manage the difference in classes, and what tools to put in place.