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LEARNING SELF AWARENESS & SELF MANAGEMENT TO ELIMINATE BULLYING AND CREATE PEER SUPPORT SCHEME IN THE IMMIGRANT CONCENTRATED SCHOOLS

2018-1-TR01-KA201-0581992018Strategic Partnerships for school educationfinalized
Countries: TR|MT|NO|UK|LT|IT · Grant: €164,650
Integration of refugeesNew innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training coursesEarly School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project summary

As we can understand from the name of the project we are proposing to be named ''Elliminating Bullying ,creating the Peer Support Scheme on the Immigrant Concentrated Schools'’ Our objective is to integrate the disadvantaged groups with social inclusion to contribute to the solution of universal problems including the immigrant problem and peer bullying,which are now extensively experienced by all Europeans by creating awareness about attitudes and behaviors in both teachers and immigrants and all pupils about peer bullying Education.Also our aim is to contribute to the struggle with inequality and poverty as well as strengthening the education, as mentioned in the European 2020 strategy investing in education.Today, the immigrant waves that many countries are exposed to confront us with a great challenge. Our objective of Project called SELAM is to find solutions to the problem of "Peer Bullying " students’ applying to each other for different reasons , which prevents immigrant students, who are the most vulnerable groups of immigrant waves, to integrate with other students and create feelings of belonging . Participants in our project are identified as participants and stakeholders who will take part in the work of all partner countries. Attention will be paid to the fact that 18 participants, each of which has 3 participants, can speak English, have key competencies, have no disadvantages in going abroad, and have different knowledge and skill qualifications according to project activities. Stakeholder participants are; According to the effects on the project, 3 groups are formed. These are the students, teachers and parents in the pilot schools where the immigrant students are the ones who will ensure that we will reach the project purpose. In the second group,local authorities, NGOs, municipalities, educational institutions, etc. will take part in the expansion of the project and in measuring its effectiveness.Our third stakeholder group includes everyone who will benefit from the project and benefit from the project outputs.Our project activities are planned as preparatory activities, implementation, evaluation, dissemination and sustainability activities. Preparatory activities were planned between 01.10.2018-01.11.2018 as the creation of the project team, the press announcement, the creation of questionnaire, logo-poster-brochure preparation, and creating facebook -mail-whatsaap groups. Implementation and Evaluation Activities: Between 01/10 / 2018-30/09/2020; were planned as Survey implementation, information meeting / awareness panels and international meetings. Project meeting places and subjects; 1. Management planning and evaluation of literature in Lithuania 2. Content evaluation in UK 3. Program/e-learning platform workings in Malta 4. Evaluation of O2 ,the GUIDE BOOK Norway 5. Evaluation of O1 & Dissemination tasks in Italy 6. International conference will be held in Turkey and will be effective in spreading the project and ensuring its visibility. In the evaluation studies, the survey will include the project progress reports and the project final report activities by applying 2 questionnaires as the evaluation questionnaire to be applied to the target group and satisfaction survey to the participants Dissemination-visibility and sustainability activities will be provided through informative work, press and social media throughout the project, sustainability will be ensured through the publishing of SELF AWARENESS and SELF MANAGEMENT e-learning platform and the Guide Book" No To Bullying" on EBA, EPALE, Facebook, and transmitting as books to educational institutions . It is remarkable in the project that the output and effects in terms of process and result are measurable and reliable and the main principle in the methodology and the project will be carried out under the cooperation and responsibility that the participation of the partners is continuous. In addition, the methodology is planned as 6 stages including preparation, organization, planning, execution, monitoring & control and closing stages. However, in our project, Methodology is not stable and unchangeable but will grow and develop with the project as a living entity throughout the project.

Final report summary

As the Project name suggests, ‘’Bullying ,creating the Peer Support Scheme on the Immigrant Concentrated Schools'’ the Project aimed ensure the integration of the disadvantaged groups through social inclusion to support the solution of universal problems, one of those is the immigrant problem and peer bullying,which are now extensively effecting all Europeans and many people around the world by raising awareness on attitudes and behaviors of teachers and immigrants and all students about peer bullying .Also ;contributing to the struggle with inequality and poverty as while supporting the education policies, as mentioned in the European 2020 strategy investing in education, was also among our objectives. Our objective to reach through SELAM Project was to bring solutions to the problem of "Peer Bullying " students’ applying to each other for different reasons , which prevents immigrant students, who are the most vulnerable groups of immigrant waves, to integrate with other students and create feelings of belonging . In line with this objective; Participants from partner institutions and stakeholders took part in the work of all partner countries in line with the pre determined Project studies. Herein; participants,key competencies, no disadvantages in going abroad, and different knowledge and skill qualifications according to project activities were involved in the Project studies(Nr.2 participants for each TPM from each partner institution). According to the effects on the project, 3 groups was formed as the students, teachers and parents in the pilot schools where the immigrant students were dense and selected especially.At this point we reched to 992 students in all partner countries. Also local authorities, NGOs, municipalities, educational institutions, etc. Took part in the dissemination of the project and in measuring its effectiveness and impact desired to be created. We planned Project activities as preparatory activities, implementation, evaluation, dissemination and sustainability activities. In Preparation process,the project team was created and the participant staff was selected, the press announcement was made, questionnaire studies were created, logo-poster-brochure preparation was carried out, and social media accounts such as facebook, instagram -mail-whatsapp groups were created Implementation and Evaluation Activities: Between 01/10 / 2018-30/09/2020 ( then extended to 30.09.2021); were planned as Survey implementation, information meetings with school directors Nr. 19 awareness panels and Nr.6 TPMs. During this timeframe, the partner institutions carried out survey studies, made information meetings with stakeholders ( school directors), organised awareness raising panels at immigrant concentrated schools and had the TPMs in partner countries to develop Project results and evaluate the Project studies. Through the information meetings and awareness panels we have reached to 112 teachers and school directors. Moreover, through social media accounts, the Project reached to 1151 people in the target group ( teachers,students,parents) TPM places and subjects; 1. Management planning and evaluation of literature in Lithuania 2. Content evaluation in UK 3. Program/e-learning platform workings in Malta 4. Evaluation of O2 ,the GUIDE BOOK Norway 5. Evaluation of O1 & Dissemination tasks in Italy 6. International conference were held in Türkiye and contributed to effective spreading of the project and ensured its visibility.Also, multiplier events organised in Türkiye supported the dissemination of the Project objectives and results.Through these studies we have reached to 220 teachers face to face. In the evaluation studies, partners applied surveys on target groups so as to see the impact on the studies on them. The results showed us that Project reached its objectives and will go on creating positive impacts in the long period. Dissemination-visibility and sustainability activities which have been carried out through social media accounts, porject web-site, web-pages of the partners , poster and flyer Works,pres announcements ensured dissemination and sustainability of the Project results and reaching to the Project objectives. The publishing of SELF AWARENESS and SELF MANAGEMENT e-learning platform and the Guide Book" No To Bullying" on EBA, EPALE,School Education Gateway, Facebook, and transmitting as books to educational institutions played the key role in sustainability of the Project results.Herein, APNED has posted the book developed in the Project to Nr.81 directorates of National Education in Türkiye. Moreover, the annoucement of the drawing contest for the participation of the students located in the are of the partner institutions raised awareness on the peer bullying cases ,cultural differences and disadvanataged students among teachers and all students.

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