The project' Culture shadow-cultural learning cookbook' is the result of the need of development of our Upper Secondary Schools in the field of strenghtening and developing students key competences, change in educational methods towards exploring teaching and creative learning with the use of multimedia and ICT. The project main topic is Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning creativity and culture-(widely understood in its social,cultural, historical context)with factors influencing it, pedagogy and didactics.The project is meant to connect youth across cultures and generations. In it we want to have deeper insight into widely understood culture, first of our local neighbourhood, then country. We want to examine examples of culture in different aspects and share our experience in teaching cultural awarness. Main goal of the project is first of all development of our youth key competences, encouragement for learning and language development, obtaining knowledge with the use of foreign languages, exploring local and national cultures, education for peace without prejudice, assumption and bias. Furthermore increase of students mobility number, school internacionalization, openness towards EU, equalling students educational opportunities. Additional important purpose of the project is to use job shadowing in cultural institutions or any institution or business connected with culture as a method to increase students’ motivation, to learn working conditions, to combine theory and practise and to see the potential of cultural heritage in the labour market. The participants will through their experiences in a new learning environment attain knowledge about and get an understanding of the similarities and differences between working life in the culture field in different countries. This will give the participants an opportunity to reflect and achieve a deeper understanding of the shared European labour market. Direct participants of the project will be 60 pupils(15 from each participating school) aged 16-17 and 12 teachers- members of coordinating team. We will try to keep gender balance between participants. Activities in the project will be different workshops, lectures, researches, job shadowing, presentations, exhibitions, drama, evaluation sessions on intercultural learning. The project will be implemented with methodology of both formal and non formal education like active participation, workshops, team work, learning from various sources, use of new technologies, creative methods, games and quizzes, self presentation and self reflection, research studies in 4 high schools from Poland, Italy, Latvia and Turkey. The main product of the project will be a pdf cultural learning cookbook- a guidebook through our cultures seen with students eyes including job shadowing experience summary. Apart from this we expect; increasing the students' ability to understand culture, increasing their command of English,learning about the education systems and cultural heritage of partners, getting more understanding of own culture and background,getting ideas concerning entrepreneurial thinking and behaving increasing the students and teachers ICT-abilities,broadening the students' communication skills, enlarging teacher’s aid base with new materials made in the project, sharing practices and methods of teaching English and teaching cultural awareness with English as a tool, increase of didactic knowledge in case ofteachers, promoting our cultures, promoting EU learning programmes. The main impact on direct participants will be increase of their cultural awareness, key competences and knowledge. We hope that project visibility, its results and products will influence not only direct participants but also indirect ones like other students, teachers, school management, parents, local community, institutions involved in job shadowing and their workers and other people interested in diversity and culture awareness. They will realise the positive impact of European programs on education and key competences development, opportunities for the youth,importance of intercultural learning and make themselves familiar with different cultures.The project will lead to making schools more attractive on educational market. In longer perspective we count on strengthening cultural bonds between our schools, longer cooperation in new projects, further exchange of tools and good practice, increase of school open educational resources and interdisciplinary cooperation, implementing job shadowing in curriculum of civic studies or advisory classes of each school.
The project' Culture shadow-cultural learning cookbook' is the result of the need of development of our Upper Secondary Schools in the field of strenghtening and developing students key competences, change in educational methods from quitting the model of „board and chalk” towards exploring teaching and creative learning with the use of multimedia and ICT. The project main topic is Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning creativity and culture-(widely understood in its social,cultural, historical context )with factors influencing it, pedagogy and didactics.The project is meant to connect youth across cultures and generations. In it we want to have deeper insight into widely understood culture, first of our local neighbourhood, then country. We wanted to examine examples of culture in different aspects and share our experience in teaching cultural awarness. Main goals of the project are first of all getting to know social and educational value of European culture heritage and its input into creating employability, economy growth and social unity altogether with development of our youth key competences, encouragement for learning and language development, obtaining knowledge with the use of foreign languages, exploring local and national cultures, education for peace without prejudice, assumption and bias. Furthermore increase of students mobility number, school internacionalization, openness towards EU, equalling students educational opportunities. Additional important purpose of the project is the use of job shadowing in cultural institutions or any organization connected with culture as a method to increase students’ motivation, to learn working conditions, to combine theory and practise and to see the potential of cultural heritage in the labour market. The participants through their experiences in a new learning environment attained more general knowledge and got an understanding of the similarities and differences between working life in the culture field in different countries. Direct participants of the project apart from participating teachers were 60 pupils(15 from each participating school) aged 14-18 and 12 teachers- members of coordinating team from 4 participating high schools in Poland, Italy, Latvia and Turkey. The project was implemented with methodology of both formal and non formal education like active participation, workshops, team work, learning from various sources, use of new technologies, creative methods, games and quizzes, self presentation and self reflection, research studies in culture. In the project we conducted 4 short term mobilities for students on culture and one training course on Web Tools for teachers. Activities consisted of different workshops, lectures, researches, job shadowing, presentations, exhibitions, drama, evaluation sessions on intercultural learning. The main product of the project is a book of 244 pages ( in form of a pdf ) - a guidebook through our cultures prepared by project’s participants and many presentations on culture that enriched our schools' teaching aids base. The main impact on direct participants is the increase of their cultural awareness, key competences and knowledge. The project was meant to : increase the students' ability to understand culture, increase their command of English,learn about the education systems and cultural heritage of partners,get more understanding of own culture and background, get entrepreneurial ideas and behaviour, increase the students and teachers ICT-abilities, broaden the students' communication skills, enlarge teacher’s aid base with new materials made in the project, share practices and methods of teaching English and teaching cultural awareness with English as a tool, increase of didactic knowledge in case of teachers, promote our cultures, promote EU learning programmes. We hope that project visibility, its results and products will influence not only direct participants but also indirect ones like other students, teachers, school management, parents, local community, institutions involved in job shadowing and their workers and other people interested in diversity and culture awareness. They will realise the positive impact of European programs on education and key competences development, opportunities for the youth, importance of intercultural learning and make themselves familiar with different cultures. The project will lead to making schools more attractive on educational market. In longer perspective we count on strengthening cultural bonds between our schools, longer cooperation in new projects, further exchange of tools and good practice, increase of school open educational resources and interdisciplinary cooperation, implementing job shadowing in curriculum of civic studies or advisory classes of each school.