The titie of the project is Dare to be Different - Creative drama in education. Partner organisations Primary school Olga Milosevic (Serbia), Demenika Primary school (Greece), Esenkoy Adnan Kaptan Ortaokulu (Turkey) and organisation of drama workers and drama pedagouges BAZAART from Belgrade (Serbia )will be cooperating in this project directed towards the Cooperation and Innovation for Good Practices. Duration of the project is 22 months. In the perspective of the 21st students' needs and market, the educational paradigm has and have to change a lot. Education is challenged to foster and build competences of teachers and students. Among the seven EU key competences Creative Drama caters for the majority of them i.e. literacy and languages; personal, social and learning competences; civic competences, cultural awareness and expression, as well as the digital competence. The objectives of our project are to develop creative and critical thinking of students, to raise the level of motivation and satisfaction with learning process, to enable students to tackle different issues iin a constructive and creative way, and to foster respect for diversity. )( The participant who will directly be involved in the project through different activities of implementation and dissemination of project results will be teachers and student and drama pedagogues of five partner organisations (about 1600). The main activities performed during the period of 22 months leading creative drama process with students in the regular classes of different subjects apart from mother tongue such as English language, biology, history, science, maths, social studies, etc. Along with applying drama techniques in lesson, creative drama process will be fostered in thee extra-curricular dram clubs where student will be led through process drama in order to deal creatively and critically with different issues that tackles their lives: school violence, accepting of diversity, healthy lifestyle, Internet safety, environmental problems, inclusion, interculturality and other topics that will be of ineerest of partner schools to deal with. During the project, two intellectual output will be delivered: 1) Collection of scripts with the title "Dare To Be Different" which will result from the creative process (at least 8) 2) Collection of lesson descriptions with the title "Bunch of Colourful Activities"designed and delivered according to the principles of creative drama process (at least 40 lessons). The dissemination of the project result will be on local, national and international level by engaging in this phase different stakeholders such as teachers from other school, parents, local authorities, Educational institutes, representatives of Ministry of Education, cultural institutions and teacher at the international conference. The long-term impact will be integration of the innovative methodology in the curricula of the school on regular basis. The creative drama will hopefully lead to educating and bringing-up creative, responsible and interculturally sensitive citizens of Europe.
The project Dare to be Different - Creative drama in education included organizations Primary school Olga Milosevic (Serbia), Demenika Primary school (Greece), Esenkoy Adnan Kaptan Ortaokulu (Turkey) and Association of drama artists BAZAART from Belgrade (Serbia ) had a fruitful and intensive cooperation directed towards the Cooperation and Innovation for Good Practices which lasted for 22 months with the extension of 4 months due to Covid pandemic. The main objectives of the project are to develop creative and critical thinking of students, to raise the level of motivation and satisfaction with learning process, to enable students to tackle different issues in a constructive and creative way, and to foster respect for diversity. The participants of the joint teacher training are 14 teachers from the partner school who attended the seminar on creative drama delivered by the partner organisation Bazaart. The second mobility was the exchange of 9 students and 2 teacher from Serbia who jointly created and performed two original drama plays with their peers and colleagues from the Turkish school from Esenkoy. The plays were performed on the 23rd of April, 2019 on the occasion of the International Children's Day. The third activity was transnational meeting held in Turkey in October, 2020.Due to the Covid pandemic, the Greek and Maltese teams took part online. The results achieved Tangible results 1. A book of original drama scripts IO1, 2. A collection of lesson plans IO2, 3. A presentation about the creative drama process implementation in schools, 4. a video created during the short-term exchange of students, 5. a self evaluation sheets for teachers and students' evaluation of the creative drama process. 6. recording of some of the plays derived during the creative drama process /all of them were not performed in front of the audience due to Corona pandemic. Intangible results - better results of formative and summative assessment of the students engaged in the creative drama activities, - higher level of students' satisfaction with learning in the lesson where drama techniques were being implemented, . - improved cultural awareness at a vey high level - considerably improved English skill of students directly involved in drama process led in English, - improved digital skill of the students who created digital material such as the Pixton comic, eCards tothe partner schools, avatars with audio greetings, an eStory,/ The results that were not envisaged are - EUROPEAN LANGUAGE LABEL for the play The Tokens of Friendship, - TWO NATIONAL ETWINNING LABELS, - Improved skill in Turkish language of some teachers and students.. , The dissemination of the project results was performed on local, national and international level by engaging in this phase different stakeholders such as teachers from other school, parents, local authorities, Educational institutes, representatives of Ministry of Education, cultural institutions and teacher at the international conference. The long-term impact will be integration of the innovative methodology in the curricula of the schools in regular lesson. The creative drama will hopefully lead to educating and bringing-up creative, responsible and interculturally sensitive citizens of Europe.