Our project " KEY for INNOVATIVE TEACHING" is a partnership project between tree countries: Belgium, Italy and Romania. It is a Strategic Partnership in the field of Education, Training and Youth by Key Action 2-Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices from Erasmus Plus Programme. The main goal of project is increasing access to participants with disadvantaged background. The project idea started from the need to improve students’ motivation of socioeconomic disadvantaged or immigrants background in partner schools, who face the risk of economic, social-cultural marginalization and risk of early school leaving. This is one of the reasons why they drop out of school. Although in different contexts, all the partner schools work in disadvantaged areas and/or with disadvantaged students. In all partners’ schools there is a large percentage of immigrated children, children disadvantaged socio-economic , exposed at risk of social exclusion. The need for the project is consistent with the two priorities of the Europe2020 strategy: growth smart through more effective investments in education(encouraging people to learn, study and update their skills and digital society (using information and communication technologies) and growth inclusive through better educational attainment by reducing social exclusion of children rate to a level below 27 % in Europe. The project aims is to develop students' motivation of disadvantaged groups with inclusive practices in education, a European space that recognizes the diversity of social, cultural and linguistic increasing in schools. Our project to reach out to disadvantaged people, motivating them to become students, to keep them motivated, preventing them from drop out. The target group consists of 400 disadvantaged students from partner schools who are at risk of early school leaving . Students participate in planning activities to be achieved with colleagues from the other European schools, in self-evaluation and external evaluation activities, plan the plenary exhibition and presentations and are involved in giving most of these. A work program is developed the skills to use ICT tools in a European space Students perform in several international teams produced using a lot of ICT tools: Email, audio and video conferencing, chat, forum, MP3, PowerPoint, video, pictures and drawings, web publishing. Parents cooperate with the school to solve together their teenagers’ problems. Our project provides teachers from a number of subject areas with an opportunity to participate in the development of a multidisciplinary and transnational approach to the topics chosen for the project. Teachers of different disciplines, students, parents, educational institution, local authority are implied and collaborate in order to complete the activities. The experience acquired, the stages and the outcomes of the projects is divulged to the local press. Each projects activities is integrated into the curricula of the three participating schools with the support of the most appropriate teacher in that subject area. It may also be the case that much of the work expand into extracurricular activities in some colleagues. Even greater emphasis is giving on marketing the success of the project in its various forms to all relevant interest groups, including press, companies, educational associations etc. The project offer a lot of innovative aspects: appropriate use of ICT, variety of new approaches as non-formal methods, participative approach, involvement of target groups, installment of learning communities. There are added value in the project because the student use documents/data of partners which they find similarities and difference between data of partner countries, students and teachers are aware of their own identity in a local, national and European context, are more involved in cross-curricular works. In project are joint products/results of collaborative work; it may be better in group rather individual. Through cooperation and networking between schools, local authorities and various entities will help to promote international development, educational diversity within the participating schools. Through this project we want to enhance the ability to adapt to new realities and personal development and interaction through exchange of experiences, thus contributing to the construction of a mature identity. We hope to contribute to the enhancement of quality and innovation of the school's educational project, creating a new dynamic at the school, the school group and the region through the importation of experiments and results obtained during the project. Contact with different social contexts and cultural backgrounds, to exchange ideas, experiences and different practices, contribute to the enrichment of all elements involved and to strengthen the sense of belonging to the European Union.
Our project " KEY for INNOVATIVE TEACHING" is a partnership project between three countries: Belgium, Italy and Romania. It is a Strategic Partnership in the field of Education, Training and Youth by Key Action 2-Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices from Erasmus + Programme. The main goal of project is increasing access to participants with disadvantaged background. The project idea started from the need to improve students’ motivation of socioeconomic disadvantaged or immigrants background in partner schools, who face the risk of economic, social-cultural marginalization and risk of early school leaving. This is one of the reasons why they drop out of school. Although in different contexts, all the partner schools work in disadvantaged areas and/or with disadvantaged students. In all partners’ schools there is a large percentage of immigrated children, children disadvantaged socio-economic, exposed at risk of social exclusion. The need for the project is consistent with the two priorities of the Europe 2020 strategy: growth smart through more effective investments in education(encouraging people to learn, study and update their skills and digital society and growth inclusive through better educational attainment by reducing social exclusion of children rate to a level below 27 % in Europe. The project aims is to develop students' motivation of disadvantaged groups with inclusive practices in education, a European space that recognizes the diversity of social, cultural and linguistic increasing in schools. Our project to reach out to disadvantaged people, motivating them to become students, to keep them motivated, preventing them from drop out. Our project objectives are: -A survey to identify and to analyze the factors inside and outside schools that will influence a learner’s level of engagement and success; -Creating and testing, through the joint efforts of the three partner organizations, a handbook of good practices "European way for motivation" on innovative non-formal teaching strategies and a set of non-formal teaching plans; -Increasing knowledge of 400 disadvantaged students from three partner schools to improve their motivation for school through development of personal and social skills, transversal skills, like IT and intercultural, in the next two years and by working at a common brochure “The travel guide”. Our project provides teachers from a number of subject areas with an opportunity to participate in the development of a multidisciplinary and transnational approach to the topics chosen for the project. Teachers of different disciplines, students, parents, educational institution, local authority are implied and collaborate in order to complete the activities. The experience acquired, the stages and the outcomes of the projects is divulged to the local press. The pedagogy we use encourages creativity, vision, cooperation and collaboration in every student and teacher and also peer-learning methods. In partner’s schools the skills are taught in a wider variety of in-school and outside-of-school settings. Both teachers and pupils have improved their foreign language and cooperation skills as well as understanding of other nations and cultures in Europe. With the help of this project we wanted our pupils to think and learn more about how knowledge and skills learned at school can help them in life. It is new and beneficial experience for us all to learn how to be a part of multicultural team. We hope that fruitful cooperation of the above-mentioned schools will continue in the future. Through cooperation and networking between schools, local authorities and various entities will help to promote international development, educational diversity within the participating schools. Through this project we want to enhance the ability to adapt to new realities and personal development and interaction through exchange of experiences, thus contributing to the construction of a mature identity. We developed new and innovative approaches among the partners: teachers and students support the dissemination of the best practice at organizational, local, regional, national and European levels. We performed many events that showcased the impact of our project and the experiences of students and teachers from the partnership. The impact of all the dissemination actions implemented was significant. Contact with different social contexts and cultural backgrounds, to exchange ideas, experiences and different practices, contribute to the enrichment of all elements involved and to strengthen the sense of belonging to the European Union. We hope that our project will have long term benefits. In addition, we will develop Open Educational Resources and they will be available for download. It is new and beneficial experience for us all to learn how to be a part of multicultural team. We hope that fruitful cooperation of the above mentioned schools will continue in the future.