In a constantly changing and developing world communal living is also getting more complicated and multidimensional.This requires improving the quality of our education.To get involved this innovation movement and live in contemporary knowledge society, a needs analysis in education has been done.It is determined that we need to enhance our pupils,teachers and schools’ capacity in key skills like communication in foreign languages,competences in science/technology,digital competence,learning to learn,interpersonal, intercultural and social competences and cultural expression set out by the European Commission.Thus,we have developed ‘Communication Through Art and Music Integrated with ICT’ Project. The project has been developed in partnership with 5 schools Poland ,Macedonia, Italy, Portugal and Turkey. Each of them brings to the project a unique experience enriching its scope and dimension. Poland;has know-how of the Erasmus projects,innovative methods ,teaching various European languages,has openness. Pupils are good at ceramics and florist works. Macedonia; Having ethnically different background pupils (Albanian, Roma, Serbian),enriches our project.Pupils are talented in music and art. Italy;is located in a disadvanted area for social-economic aspects but the school staff enhances the inside of the school by joining many innovation promoting activities.Organizes teacher-training courses.Uses ICT,cross-curricular,CLIL methods. Portugal; students develop artistic projects, this way promoting transversal and interdisciplinary knowledge. Turkey; promoter of the project, is responsible for the organizational,methodological, and financial coordination.The main-coordinator of valorizing results, project management and report.Pupils are gifted and talented in art/music. Objectives of the Project are. *To compare methods of teaching and learning, values of education, school organization and curriculum in order to look for pedagogical innovations. *To broaden the potential of ICT; increasing the quantity of digital natives among all partners' teachers,pupils,parents and other stakeholders who are the target groups. *To cultivate mutual respect, intercultural awareness and embed common educational values,to meet colleagues of different nationalities within the EU. *To engage in cross-cultural learning experience;enrich communication skills, improve foreign language competencies, *Students will build and develop the 21st century skills: Critical thinking, problem solving, creativity etc. 5 transnational meetings will take place:The kickoff meeting will be in Turkey and Italy will give a short teacher-trainning course on ICT.Portugal,Poland and Macedonia wil also host pupils. Throughout the Project students will see the work of other artists,writers and filmmakers in order to see how others have used art and music as a medium for communication and the articulation of ideas,opinions and emotion in their work.This will be further exercised by an activity during which the pupils describe artworks from their own national art tradition.They will also compose their own songs together to have some concerts.Besides using ICT (for instance skype,videoconferencing and distance learning) they will have a chance to learn each others' language and sing the songs in each others' language.Each country will introduce tehir own musical instruments.There will be an expedition showing the pupils artworks in Macedonia.After it there will be a mini concert.These results will be shared online on social media and be presented for the other schools to see on the website. A sample lesson integrated with interdisciplinary teaching method will be done at Ogrodzieniec,Poland.The history teacher can give information about the history of that place,the geograhy teacher can tell the geographical structure,the biology teacher can inform the pupils about the plant growing there,music teacher can lead the pupils compose a song by the voices of nature or they can draw the pictures of nature,the literature teacher can lead the students to write poams or stories or the teachers from diverse countries may teach terms of nature in their own language to the pupils.This kind of a lesson will help students to use language to learn, learn to use language and which at the same time means usage of CLIL technique. Results will be exhibited on websites"Open Your Mind".E-learning platform to register and follow the activities.The Project Handbook, Project Journal, multilingual dictionary and training materials will be uploaded additionally in online libraries to ensure their wider and longer use. Tangible resources, products, deliverables and outputs which have resulted from funded project will be published on relevant sites for educators as well as in eTwinning and Erasmus+ Project Results Platform. That will ensure a long-term sustainability and availability of the project.
The project was developed in partnership with 5 schools Poland,Macedonia,Italy,Portugal andTurkey. However;Portugal dropped out of the project because of 5 approved projects and inefficient school capacity.Objectives of the Project are: 1-To compare methods of teaching&learning,values of education,school organization&curriculum in order to look for pedagogical innovations 2-To broaden the potential of ICT among all partners' teachers,pupils,parents and other stakeholders who are the target groups 3-To cultivate mutual respect,to meet colleagues of different nationalities within the EU. 4-To engage in cross-cultural learning experience;enrich communication skills,improve foreign language competencies 5-Sts will build&develop skills to learn other cultures’ sense of music and art. We reached all of these goals but we will struggle to go on progress after the project duration. The project works started with making people aware of us and the project so we formed our website- http://erasmus.ctamiwi.com , facebook-https://www.facebook.com/groups/1900269190223307/ and twitter pages- Communication Through Art&Musc Integrated with ICThttps://twitter.com/Zuhal18651560 as the first.As the partnership we mostly communicate on our whatsup &mailing groups and start the project studies on etwinning platform.We organized some project presentation seminars to the pupils,School Board of each school,to the representatives of non-teaching staff of the schools,families and representatives of the municipality or similar Town Hall.Each sub-coordinator,the contact person set up their Erasmus+ Leadership Team which is responsible for coordination,planning,monitoring, implementation,management,evaluation,dissemination of materials/activities. We had a logo contest among partnership pupils which was voted by public on FB,website and school's website pages One of the main aim of the project is teaching&learning each other's system&methods of education.Since this project involves art,music,new teaching methods and ICT,we shared videos,documents of art,music lessons &the methods we use with each other to teach the other schools.ICT materials and e-learning platforms like edmodo- https://www.edmodo.com/home#/group?id=26262868,etwinning platform have been our basic classsroom atmosphere.We registered partnership's teachers,pupils and parents to this platforms.In addition to these platforms,we used many web 2.0 tools like kahoot to make quizzes asking questions about the involved countries to present the countries.We used genially to introduce each other,padlet to make brochures of our towns,google documents to make surveys about project&logo contest,learningapps.org to make hangman game of CTAMIWI project concepts,canva to make project banners and brochures. We had 5 mobilities,the 1. and 2.LTTs took place in Italy.The 1.one was just for the teachers;Italian School Laura Lanza is expert in using CLIL method and Edmodo.They gave us teacher training course.2 teachers and 4 sts from each school joined the 2nd mobility in Carini. We had music,art,robotics and 3d design and printing workshops.The 3rd LTT was in Poland.3 teachers and 6 sts from Italy;2 teachers and 4 sts from Turkey and Macedonia joined.We had Interdisciplinary lesson;art,music and dance workshops.The 4th mobility was Turkey TPM.3 teachers from Italy,2 teachers from Macedonia and Poland joined.We had 3d writing,web 2.0 tools in education,art,music,CLIL workshops and project meeting.The last LTT was in North Macedonia.2 teachers from Italy,Turkey,Poland;5 sts from Turkey,4 sts from Poland and 6 sts from Italy joined.The project concert and project works expedition took place at city hall in public.Pupils aged from 12 to 15.The sts were mostly talented at art and music.There were also ones with fewer opportunities(socio-economical) Project outcomes are our own multilingual dictionary with the basic vocabulary&idioms in English,Turkish,Polish,Italian and Macedonian words with prononciation videos recorded by pupils project team.Project calendar,handbook,brief file,cups,pens,t-shirts,banners,Web 2.0 tools Handbook,CLIL lesson plans,many power points presentations,videos of concert/workshops/all LTT activities;project presentation events at school/shopping mall/cith hall;informative meetings and web 2.0 seminars for non/staff teachers;#erasmusdays events,project song,coordination with university to organize seminars,expeditions on science fair;padlets of international songs,singers,artworks Non/participant teachers,sts and all skateholders learnt about tech based and innovative methods and different education systems; improve themselves(language,communication skills) and became aware of European projects Tangible resources&outputs resulted from funded project are being published on our website,eTwinning space and Erasmus+ Project Results Platform.That will ensure a long-term sustainability and availability of the project.Newly learnt methods have been integrated to our curriculas.