My Sign Club & My Sign Application

Project summary

It was mentioned that The European Economic and Social Committee calls for policies that foster innovation, are based on statistical data and give visibility to people with disabilities in all relevant European and national statistics, The EESC recalls that including criteria to strengthen disability policies in the future post Lisbon Strategy ,And The EESC reaffirms its exploratory opinion on Equal opportunities for people with disabilities which points to the same rights but different needs and different forms of accessibility to goods and services .The EESC hails the efforts of the EU Member States and the Commission to ensure accessibility, the objective of which must be to ensure universal accessibility (public buildings , buildings of public interest ; private companies, goods and services, tourism, e commerce, information, transport, technology and communications). The EESC restates its commitment to the principle of "design for all", and believes that it is crucial for this concept to be built into the curricula of both vocational training and university courses, so that all professionals apply this principle in A new Community disability policy in the future EU 2020 strategy.For all those reasons we wanted to raise in education platform of Europe and people's awareness and dissemination of international sign language in learning and teaching. In the project there are 5 main objectives; 1)Learning and teaching International Sign Language 2) Building a mobile phone application 3)Writing a Learning International Sign Language Book4)Schools will have Sign language clubs in 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 Education years5)Giving a place to international sign language in EU schools' curriculum planning.Each participating institution has a strong political and environmental awareness ; Our Europeans partners are: Avcılar Firuzköy Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi in İstanbul in Turkey, Rezekne Polish State Gymnasium in Rezekne,in Latvia, Niepubliczne Gimnazjum "Keglik" in Sroda Wielkopolska ,in Poland. Planned activities can be divided into two main parts. The first year, we plan discovery activities, for addressing the central themes of our project while socializing with our partners. The following meetings will take place according to the schedule below and there may be some changes if there is a need and consensus among the partners : M(- TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT MEETINGS ) C(- LEARNING/TEACHING/TRAINING ACTIVITIES) (M 1) October 2017-İstanbul,TURKEY (C 1) December2017-Rezekne,LATVIA (C 2) March 2018- Sroda Wielkopolska,POLAND (C 3) May 2018-Istanbul,TURKEY (M 2)September 2018- Sroda Wielkopolska,POLAND (C 4) November 2018-Rezekne,LATVIA (C 5) February 2019- Sroda Wielkopolska,POLAND (M 3)May 2019-Rezekne,LATVIA Two important phases of research and information gathering are planned: The responsible teachers learn the international sign language and get the certificate in Turkey first meeting and then they will run the club activities during education year.The international sign teacher will be hired and the Money will be paid by Project management and implementation by three partners.On the other hand the club students will go on their learning activities while they are gathering information for book and mobile application.It focuses on strengthening effective teaching methods, especially interdisciplinary approaches, unifying teaching basic skills (English, native language and literacy) and appealing to lack of success priority via supporting problem-based learning projects which are among the horizontal priorities of Erasmus + Programme’s school education.Teachers will adopt a student-centered approach to instruction increase opportunities for student engagement, which then helps everyone more successfully achieve the learning objectives. Because of including activities to develop our teachers skills will make them criticize themselves on vocational ability and will have positive effects on their vocational skills and all these are correlated with Erasmus+ Programme’s the priority of School Education: Strengthening the profile of the teaching professions.The book will be written in English and will be used by all schools club activities and lessons.The mobile phone application will be used by others .The second year,The impacts will be measured by visiting to hearing impaired institutions ,local authority, local education authority ,and taking a poll in our education autorities and also by using the local and national media in our countries at the meeting time ,each partners will try to reach great circle.The Main expected result of the project is that To create a common international sign language not only for hearing impaired people but also in order to socialise them for people who can hear.The need of international sign language will grow in the near future. The capacity to use international sign language in addition to English will certainly become a huge advantage of EU.