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Strengthening personal development of students with special needs through intercultural activities

2018-1-DE03-KA229-0474692018School Exchange PartnershipsfinalizedGood practice
Countries: DE|CZ|HR|PL · Grant: €160,521.5
Access for disadvantagedTransport and mobilityDisabilities - special needs

Project summary

The basic idea of the future Erasmus-Partnership of an intercultural model to create inclusion and a special kind of participation in society for children and students with special needs arose during the current Erasmus mobility activity and was developed by teachers and students. It is a result of the good cooperation of the involved schools. Referring to the UN convention the focus is to strengthen the intercultural thinking of our disabled and disadvantaged children. The new project will help the students to defend themselves against acts of exclusion, intolerance and xenophobia. It will be organized interdisciplinary and across forms and will be involved whole school. The proposals are multi-layered and will help the children to develop their own personality, in addition to improve their competences and skills. The children will also work with different kinds of media simultaneously. Furthermore, the project will help to reduce the amount of early school leavers and will arouse interest of the students to participate actively in different kinds of clubs, e.g. sport clubs, creative or technical clubs. The project will help students to become part of our society. In the forefront, local clubs and organizations appear in the respective schools and suggest their activity profile. During the activities multinational thinking and acting as well as sympathy and understanding for each other will be promoted. Every student does a workshop including local proposals which imply the resulting incultural and inclusive ideas to document especially the social participation. Consequently, we have a selection of an European diversity in all partner regions, which gives an insight into the corresponding profiles. Rudolstadt: “Thüringer Folkloretanzensamble”, floating, football, art school, performing arts Pula: circus, juggling, balancing, Yoga, shooting with bow and arrows, clown show Lesnica: music and dance, theatre performance Puck: creative courses, sailing, traditions Schweich: outdoor education, canoeing, mountain bike, climbing During each mobility every student has to create his or her individual certificate. They will be able to take photos and make short movies independently. These media skills will help to create their individual certificate of attendance including the logo which will be the basis andthe result of the first meeting. At the same time we explore in companionship new ways of learning and learning methods, learn about specific and local activites, possibilitie but also get to know special features of the European countries, work practice-oriented and achieve the opportunity of European conferencing. Collective practice-oriented working shall generate respect and acceptance for several impaiments, together with other lifestyle habits accompanied by the national characteristics. Learn-basis and learn-cause generate the issue of an activity portfolio which presents country specific core themes. The resulting portfolio will be used as a basis for future students of each school to draw their interest to a certain club. Consequently, the students learn to be an active part in our society , for example they become an active member in a sports club or they implement new expierences and needs. The experiences, which the travelling group (6 students/3 teachers) gathers in the partner school, can pass on in full to the other participants directly. The summary of all the activities and results referring to the leisure- catalog will apprehended digitally, will be placed at the disposal to every participant in form of a portfolio as a certificate and will be presented in the respective schools. Furthermore we will provide this catalog for different clubs, organisations, public institutions, mentors and service of integration to make our experience available to all other students. Other supporting schools will also get an insight in our partnership and are able to use our results as a basic and impulse for further special educational projects. Our song and a movie about all our leisure activities will be another result of our cooperation and will be published in local television channels. In general, we will use the website of the school to present our activities. The European platform e-twinning supports the dissemination of our results. The participation in that project is an amazing advantage for our students and a chance to get to know parts of Europe. For most of them it is the only way to go abroad and get to know these activities, countries and traditions. The sustainability is granted throughout the media representation. In addition to that, the project will be included into the conception of the respective schools.

Final report summary

The basic idea of the Erasmus-Partnership of an intercultural model to create inclusion and a special kind of participation in society for children and students with special needs arose during the Erasmus mobility activity and was developed by teachers and students. It was a result of the good cooperation of the involved schools. Referring to the UN convention the focus was to strengthen the intercultural thinking of our disabled and disadvantaged children. The new project helped the students to defend themselves against acts of exclusion, intolerance and xenophobia. It was organized interdisciplinary and across forms and involved whole school. The proposals were multi-layered and helped the children to develop their own personality, in addition it improved their competences and skills. The children also worked with different kinds of media simultaneously. Furthermore, the project helped to reduce the amount of early school leavers and aroused interest of the students to participate actively in different kinds of clubs, e.g. sport clubs, creative or technical clubs. The project helped students to become part of our society. In the forefront, local clubs and organizations appeared in the respective schools and suggested their activity profile. During the activities multinational thinking and acting as well as sympathy and understanding for each other promoted. Every student did a workshop including local proposals which implied the resulting incultural and inclusive ideas to document especially the social participation. Consequently, we had a selection of an European diversity in all partner regions, which gave an insight into the corresponding profiles. Rudolstadt: Line Dance, floating, football, art school, performing arts Pula: circus, juggling, balancing, Yoga, shooting with bow and arrows, clown show Lesnica: music and dance, theatre performance Puck: creative courses, sailing, traditions Schweich: outdoor education, canoeing, mountain biking, climbing During each mobility every student created his or her individual certificate. They were able to take photos and make short movies independently. These media skills helped to create their individual certificate of attendance including the logo which was the basis and the result of the first meeting. At the same time we explored in companionship new ways of learning and learning methods, learned about specific and local activites, possibilities but also got to know special features of the European countries, worked practice-oriented and achieved the opportunity of European conferencing. Collective practice-oriented working generated respect and acceptance for several impaiments, together with other lifestyle habits accompanied by the national characteristics. Learn-basis and learn-cause generate the issue of an activity portfolio which presented country specific core themes. The resulting portfolio has used as a basis for future students of each school to draw their interest to a certain club. Consequently, the students learnt to be an active part in our society , for example they became an active member in a sports club or they implemented new expierences and needs. The experiences, which the travelling group (6 students/3 teachers) gathers in the partner school, can pass on in full to the other participants directly. The summary of all the activities and results referring to the leisure- catalog were apprehended digitally, were placed at the disposal to every participant in form of a portfolio as a certificate and were presented in the respective schools. Furthermore we provided this catalogue for different clubs, organisations, public institutions, mentors and service of integration to make our experience available to all other students. Other supporting schools also got an insight in our partnership and were able to use our results as a basic and impulse for further special educational projects. Our song and a movie about all our leisure activities were another result of our cooperation and were published in local television channels. In general, we used the website of the school to present our activities. The European platform e-twinning supported the dissemination of our results. The participation in that project has an amazing advantage for our students and a chance to get to know parts of Europe. For most of them it was the only way to go abroad and got to know these activities, countries and traditions. The sustainability was granted throughout the media representation. In addition to that, the project was included into the conception of the respective schools.

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