Everything begins with the first step. The project is totally based on this idea. We think people are like dominos. If one is affected, he/ she will probably affect the next person and it will continue this way. As educators, we have decided to break our students' prejudices against other cultures. We know that if they have a limited vision, they cant be citizens of the world. This project makes us open our students' doors : they will see that they shouldn’t believe what they hear about other culturers. They will learn to be more tolerant and they will understand that there are always common points behind borders, races and religions. SEN children will have a chance to get ın touch wıth the chıldren as they like.They have a small world ın theır classrooms whıch have same faces and a few classmates.This project helps them to chat ,meet and learn by the various ways of communication wıth the other SEN students internationally.It wil be the fırst experience in special education field for TURKEY-POLAND -PORTUGAL. We all know that we will do our best wıth ınnovatıve methods,attidues and approaches. Furthermore, they will understand what being a part of the world means. Being a part of the world involves knowing the other cultures and getting high reflection on similiraties -differences .SEN students and their parents need to fınd innovative paths against traditional methods to carry themselves upper educatıon . Our project will enlighten the paths that have been using by the help of multıcultural experience and colobration . Our project called 'SOUNDS ' combines Science, ICT and Music to challenge our children to plan, design and create a range of open ended projects that foster and develop their creativity and innovation. A set of challenging small projects will be organised for all children from partner countries as a competition to find the most efficient, creative and innovative ways to solve problems or complete tasks. Moreover, we don’t want to limit our actions to our city or country- we will move and learn transnationally. We plan a variety of activities that include both indoor and outdoor tasks. Students will collaborate during lessons within mixed groups via twinspace. Each partner country offers their specific backgrounds and possibilities to learn new competences, share good practices and encourage our students to become good citizens of Europe. We will use e-twinning,twinspace,local media, the project website and social media to reach larger crowds. eTwinning and ICT Training will be given by Spain,children will create a digital resource to share among partner schools to communicate their learning and a practical resource to use when exploring sound, e.g. string telephone.These digital resources from exploring the links between electricity and sound/sound inventions, sound clips of 'Our Feelings' from music powered by electricity produced will be shared in Romania.In ICT - Programming rhythm activity, each partner school will create scenarios of lessons using rhythm to work with children and will produce a film showing how they use music during lessons or therapies with SEN children.Children are going to take part in dance sessions where they are going to learn traditional dances where rhythm is crucial. All participants will prepare melody and lyrics to the given/ chosen rhythms. In ''I am listening to my city’ activity each partner will prepare sound clips belongs to their culture in their city At the TPM in Poland, those sounds will be listened by all delegates to know about cultures,traditions,characteristic features belongs to those cities located in Europe via sounds and combine in a cd to make sound clips.Host partner POLAND will present their dance show lively. In Music - Composition activity pupils write a song about sounds and all the songs will be recorded on CDs and shared with partner-schools and used later on when learning about sounds and electricity.In Music appreciation activity - exploring and responding to work of famous composers using electronic instruments will be prepared as power point presentation .In Portugal,the video records about traditional and national musical instruments of the partner schools will be shared and host school Portugal will give a lively concert playing as an orchestra about the same activity with their SEN students in their schools . While doing this project, teachers will motivate themselves to make changes in their teaching methods to create more innovative materials and to develop a more democratic attitude towards the students with the impact of shared European values and this will lead the integration of the school into the European educational system. We strongly believe that the new methods that will guide our students throughout the project will be of great help for learners to estimate the importance of caring for themselves and our improved way of life in modern hectic society.
The project is based on the idea that everything begins with the first step.It is an essential right of all community members for every person, regardless of their individual differences, to benefit equally from social,cultural,educational,life activities and opportunities.However,students with special needs face some attitudes that prevent access to equal opportunities both in social and educational environments.It is important for people with disabilities to learn new information to adapt to the modern times just like other individuals,to use this information in daily life and to be able to generalize what they have learned.The aim of our project is to bring together disabled and non-disabled students through integrative education activities. In line with this aim,breaking the negative prejudices of the students and giving feeling of accomplishment to everyone is one of our main goals.We believe that people will influence each other like dominoes.If one is affected,it probably affects the next person and so on.Through this project important steps are taken to ensure positive interaction and to reach the fundamental rights of people with special needs.As educators,we have decided to break our students' prejudices against other cultures.We know that if they have limited vision, they cannot become citizens of the world.Therefore,with this project, the doors to unknown characteristics of different cultures around Europe were opened to the students and made them believe that they see rather than what they hear about other cultures.They learned to be more tolerant and understood that behind borders,races and religions they always had something in common.Being in the same classes and seeing same faces confined to their own little world,these children had the chance to meet different people and learn together in various ways of communication in the project.All students with special needs have had such an international experience for the first time.One of our aims was to exchange information about different European cultures and good practices and to proactively contribute to the creation of a more flexible and interesting teaching method in education processes.Significant opportunities have been provided to improve communication skills using various digital environments, such as e-mail,skype,twinspace, and awareness have been raised for people with disabilities.In the project,the interdisciplinary method of education by Sound aimed to be conducted through peer education and collaboration between students.Several activities were determined in this direction.These activities were carried out with the disabled and non-disabled students under the guidance of teachers who are disciplined, experienced in special education, and able to contribute to the project.The activities were carried out by arranging meetings with 4 participating teachers from each country.The first LTT a training activity for teachers in Spain,which planned to use the information technologies and etwinning platform more actively.At the end of this training,teachers were able to interpret the purpose of using web2 tools while working with students,using web2 tools in etwinning platform,working with students in etwinning project,using twinspace, and what technological materials could be used in the project.The second activity of the project was carried out in Romania.(2nd LTT) the activity named Listening to My City,each partner school made music videos of cultural and traditional sounds and dance performances specific to their city and country and sent them to the school in Romania by e-mail.The collected video clips were combined on a single DVD and presented to the participants in the meeting.All our partner schools prepared a model for the in POLAND(3rd LTT )activity themed"Electricity and Sound".In addition,5 sounds have been determined for each Soundbook by a joint decision of all schools.These sounds with the video clip of the model design were mailed to Poland and were combined into a DVD QR-code was created for each sound in the Soundbook.A digital book was prepared with related photographs and code.Another activity in PORTUGAL(4th LTT)was the composition of the project anthem in order to establish the identity of the project.Each partner organized a lyrics contest at its own school and the music was composed under the guidance of teachers.The anthem was performed by disabled and non-disabled students together. all the schools were submitted to vote by the school in Portugal and Turkey's national anthem was elected as the winner.Beatbox,which was the last activity,had given the opportunity to offer joint products to disabled and non-disabled students and the video clips were sent to Italy where everything was combined into a single DVD again.At TPM in ITALY,a seminar was hold for the participants to learn and discover SEN education system and in Italy.