This partnership starts from a common issue of all attending schools: school students have difficulties in connecting knowledge from different curriculum subjects with their communities specific regarding: cultural heritage, economical specific and geographical particularities. Causes of this phenomenon: 1) the general character of teaching tools (consisting in school manuals and other didactic materials: didactic movies, local maps, educational platforms ) that are created for general use without taking into consideration regional communities specific; 2) the small amount of school classes that can be used for relate school content with regional specific; 3)the small interactions between students from different schools focused on valuing cultural heritage and regional specific; 4)the grouth of extermist adepts among young people starting from early ages recrouted by media channels; 5)the lack of an institutional plan to cultivate European values such as respect and tolerance by promoting cultural heritage from different European countries. Effects 1) Pupils learn without the help of common situations specific to their regions; 2)The inability to connect knowledge from different subjects to common situations; 3)A closed attitude towards different cultures and different traditions( not knowing, not wanting to know), in young people's circles that can lead in the future to the lack of tolerance and other social issues; 4) A closed attitude of young people towards their own traditional heritage ( traditions are the oposit of modernism, so for young people it is not cool to promote traditions); 5) A small number of school activities that promotes traditional heritage and European values regarding tolerance and respect for other cultures, a small impact on school students within isolated groups that are involved by small groups of teachers. Project's goal: Establishing a global strategy for schools (that are involved in the project) for valuing local specific to all subjects, for creating new teaching resources that uses regional specific and promoting European values of tolerance, acceptance in valuing traditional heritage. Target group: -32 teachers that are willing to adapt their content to regional specific; -40 pupils, age 12-13-14-15 years old, from regions and schools involved. Objectives: 1) At the end of the project the teachers involved in this partnership will have a new set of working materials consisting in lessons scenarios, educational movies, interactive tests on educational platforms, adapted working sheets, portfolio's content on specific topics; 2) The growth of the number of working materials adapted to regional specific from pupils portfolios; 3) The increase of cultural awareness from the level existing at the beginning of the project to project completion; 4) The increasement of the number of teachers involved into international cooperation exchanges from every school; 5) The increasement of modern didactic techniques implementation into classes as common practice . Project meetings: C1) Interactive teaching starts from my community Meeting main activities:1)lessons assistance, 2)local cooperation with schools trainers on modern teaching techniques,3)Visit to The Railway Museum of Dej, 4)Tolerance and respect- lessons for a better life- workshop, 5)We are different but we can be united- workshop to present regional specific of the schools involved; 6)How to create a Kahoot test; 7)Workshop- how to create school materials using tablets. C2) Students portfolios - active learning techniques The main goal is to experiment good practice exchange consisting in materials for students personal portfolio as a learning resource. During this meeting considering the fact that students will show their personal portfolio developed in classrooms learning resoruces for students will be developed. C3)Local manufactures and local museums a wonderful resource for learning Meeting's main activity is the documentaries contest for students, on local traditional manufactories and their development over time. All the other activities are learning activities that exploits local specific and leads to a better understanding of school content. C4)"How we tell our stories" is a reunion that invites all attending groups of students and teachers to demonstrate how popular traditions are a ways of expressing cultural heritage. C5) Popular calendar around Europe Meeting's main activity is the presentations about popular traditions around the year long. All the other activities are conceived to demonstrate how to exploit traditional heritage in didactic activities. Tangible results: 1)"Our community into school curriculum"-A brochure with lessons scenario on regional specific 2)"http://www.NewCurriculum21.com"-a platform with didactic materials 3)Project scientific magazine " Teaching challenges" 4)"http://www.AboutUs.com"-students platform 5)events that encourages the interactions with local community.
Project implementation lead to the optimization of didactic process into partner schools, to teacher professional development and to student’s personal development. These beautiful outcomes were achieved following objectives: O1) The development of didactic means consisting in lesson scenarios, lesson working sheets, didactic experiments, educational movies and educational trips conceived to exploit schools' regional specific; O2) The implementation of the new didactic materials to classes, leading to students accomplishment of basic skills; O3) Achieving students and teachers cultural awareness and the increasement of knowledge about other nations, regions, popular traditions and economic development; O4) The increasement of the number of teachers involved into international cooperation and reaching professional development; O5) the implementation of modern technologies and digital instruments into didactic process of every partner school. We considered that our didactic process must be upgraded by good practice exchanges, by the implementation of a common plan to develop new didactic instruments, on common topics and by creating among our students, the awareness regarding European values and European dimension of education.
Project partners identified a common problem during the implementation of didactic activities. Students have difficulties in connecting theoretic knowledge to common practice from daily life experience and from their regional context of economic development, geographic particularities and cultural heritage. Identifying this need all partners decided to implement a project aiming to bring regional communities into teaching activities. We decided that all partner schools will implement didactic content with applications developed on regional specific. The most important activity in schools is the lesson, so our project develop new lesson scenario, starting from regional context, bringing regional context closer to students universe. By cooperating for reaching project goal into an international team, other aspects like: reaching personal development, achieving cultural awareness, fulfilling teachers' professional development are also connected to our initiative. Our project addresses to the promotion of European values (like: understanding cultural heritage, acceptance and tolerance) into partner schools and to the development of European dimension in education (by increasing basic skills, creating transversal competences).