Our project involves six schools on primary level and targets students of age 6-12. Main characteristic of our project is that many of the participating students are Roma students or bilingual or students with special social and learning needs. It is based on the idea of integration of arts (oral narration, digital narration, music, drama and outdoor learning) in the process of learning and teaching mainly of Language subject. Main priorities of our project are: social inclusion of the students, the supporting confrontation with the early school leaving (ESL) and disadvantage and the support of the "target groups" of each partner school to improve oral and written speech in Language Subject. All children love activities involving artistic expression and creativity. Especially Roma children by being connected through our program with oral traditional fairy tales narration, music and drama and outdoor learning to Language they will manage to bridge their oral tradition and special characteristics of their origin with school knowledge, personal expression, and personal experiences. Through this method we strongly believe that students by developing social skills of collaboration and communication and by felling accepted through the incorporation of their culture (traditions, music, fairy tales, language) can be included socially and find a reason why not quitting school, by being part of it. From our experience, Narration and Arts encourage children to communicate ideas, feelings, problems and solutions in both verbal and non-verbal ways. Through arts students with learning disabilities and cognitive difficulties can have equal school opportunities which will prove beneficial both for the process of teaching and learning of those subjects and for the intercultural awareness them. Digital narration and outdoor learning also improves very muvh student's impact and interest! Many research studies prove the benefits of oral narration for the development of oral speaking. Also, scientists point out the importance of incorporation of mother language for bilingual students at school and the strong need for the self - stem and development of the bilingual person of the acceptance of their mother language. Our project through narration, digital narration, music, theatrical play and outdoor learning will make a channel of communication for Roma and non Roma students and the cultural variety of Europe (Greece, Croatia, Czech Republic, Spain, Latvia, Finland). Scientifically, our project's objectives are based on Multiple types of Intelligence theory, Project based Learning, CLIL theory about billingual students, Art-based approaches and Outdoor Learning theory. All these theories are presented in six Trainings meetings are orginised to take place in specific dates. The benefits of the Trainings are going make teachers design more interesting activities for partners target groups. All Timetable activities combine specific aims of Language Lesson and Social aims. Furthermore through the project teachers of all schools will exchange and share their knowledge and they will produce material and ideas answering to the reality of their schools. Evaluation through project and personal research and team work, will be the answer on work stress, fatigue and personal frustration. The produced material will be posted on the Twinspace of the project, a blog that we are going to create and other Social media so as to be used from other interested educators.
Our project involved six schools on primary level and targets students of age 6-12. Main characteristic of our project was that many of the participating students are Roma students or bilingual or students with special social and learning needs. It was based on the idea of integration of arts (oral narration, digital narration, music, drama and outdoor learning) in the process of learning and teaching mainly of Language subject. Main priorities of our project were: social inclusion of the students, the supporting confrontation with the early school leaving (ESL) and disadvantage and the support of the "target groups" of each partner school to improve oral and written speech in Language Subject. Roma children were connected through our program with oral traditional fairy tales narration, music and drama and outdoor learning to Language. In this way, they bridged their oral tradition and special characteristics of their origin with school knowledge, personal expression, and personal experiences. Through this method, students developed social skills of collaboration and communication. Students have made a step forward in social inclusion and through our project’s interesting activities they had a reason not to quit school. From our experience, Narration and Arts encouraged children to communicate ideas, feelings, problems and solutions in both verbal and non-verbal ways. This took place in our 3 year project. Through arts students with learning disabilities and cognitive difficulties had equal school opportunities which proved to be beneficial both for the process of teaching and learning of those subjects and for the intercultural awareness of them. Digital narration and outdoor learning also greatly improved the student's impact and interest! Our project through narration, digital narration, music, theatrical play, fine arts and outdoor learning made a channel of communication for Roma and non Roma students and the cultural variety of Europe (Greece, Croatia, Czech Republic, Spain, Latvia, Finland).Especially through the material of the common activities that they did in classroom. Scientifically, our project's objectives were based on Multiple types of Intelligence theory, Project based Learning, CLIL theory about billingual students, Art-based approaches and Outdoor Learning theory. All these theories were presented in six Training meetings that were organised. The benefits of the training meetings made teachers design more interesting activities for partner target groups. All Timetable activities combined specific aims of Language Lesson and Social aims. Furthermore through the project teachers of all schools exchanged and shared their knowledge and produced material and ideas answering to the reality of their schools. The produced material is posted on the Twinspace of the project. A blog was created and other Social media so as are used from other interested educators. Material also disseminated in newspapers digital newspapers, Municipal websites, Educational portals, Regional Authorities websites, Erasmus Days and International Conference.