Berufskolleg West der Stadt Essen is today located in ESSEN region where AEG and Krupp companies were once available and the big factories run their machine factoires. Today it works with a vocational school name which thirdly sectors are socially and economically dominated. It still has 76 teacers and about 1480 students . IIS L.ACCIAIUOLI - L. EINAUDI di ORTON is a vocational high school in Ortona region in Italy. It has nearly all the technical units as the applying school. It is a big chance for the region which has an intense industry. Turkish partner Gümüşhacıköy Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School has vocational education. It has worked densely on Erasmus+ project for years. The Greek partner is a vocational High school known as 1 EPAL Arta. It has a lot of vocational units as we do have. Its the biggest school of the region. In the meetings all the needs that the partners stated are: - Turkish partner , talked about the indifference of the students on science lessons. The biggest reason for the the traditional and compulsory teaching technics of te teachers on these low level students who chose those schools. - The Greek School stated that there is no problem on interest on science because of attractiveness and the refugee students. - Italian partner's students said they need the innovative learning and teaching technics usage to include them to the scientific disciplines. As the applicant school we came to realise that the wak usage of experiments in science and the strong usage of theoretical methods. Our purposes: * The project aims to introduce new approaches in integrated science education of the mutual schools' education applications , to provide students with skills to make learning easier * To help students to be interested more in scientific concept and science * To make science lessons more interesting in vocational education * To be institutionalized in EU * To raise EU citizenship ,multilangualism and tolerance * To ensure Erasmus+ dissemination Our Objectives: 1. To raise the quality of the science lessons through collaboration in Europe context until the end of the project, integrate the ICT process and new learning methods 2. To raise the graduates rate at the end of the studies and create employment in two years' time 3. To develop social skills , communicate in European languages , introduce yourselves and join in European programmes. 4. To be an International school 5. To have adequate applications for KA202 projects To reach the objectives the project team selected these activites: 1- Introduction of education systems of the countries 2- Curriculum of Science lessons 3- Reviewing the competencies of experimenting 4- Observing the technical opportunities 5- Seeing the technological approaches 6- Observing the inclusion of the students 7- Seeing on site of the experiment weigh 8- Observing the initiative level of the students 9- Reviewing the place of the experiments in academical life 10- Other cultural activities Impact ( for teachers) Management skills, digital teaching skills, methodogical developments, creativitiy in lessons development, Raising the interest on European partners, raising the vocational respect in work place and national levels will be observed Impact ( for pupils ) To make them more interested in science lessons, reflect their academical life, see it as a motivating one, be problem solvers, create the reason-result relation, be more international , respect the other cultures and act as appropriate to the Erasmus+ logic are the expected impacts Assesing the Project: 1- To succeed the objectives and activities 2- Interaction with the project partners 3- Satisfaction of the beneficiaries 4- Selection of the participants and preparaiton 5- Selection of the results and dissemination Expected Results: - Raising the quality of education, Raising the value for Erasmus+ programme, Appreciating the studies of the participants. - Empowering the transnational capacity, improving the educational process - Applying the innovative factors in educational patterns Concrete Results: Certifications gained by the participants: Europass Mobility Certificate, project documents, Non-Materials : Language skills; active citizenship, developed social skills - Workplace and laboratory methods and technics, Experience of the organisation of the activities Our project includes 7 LTT activities totally. There will be 69 participants ( teachers and students ) and 9 accompanying persons which will last 24 months. There will be 4 partners in total.
The Berufskolleg West of the city of Essen originally had most of its industrial trainees from AEG and Krupp. After coal mining ceased, the companies moved away or closed down, so the Berufskolleg had to reorient itself. A very large target group at Berufskolleg West are the needy students who cannot find an apprenticeship with no or very low school-leaving qualifications. This project is intended for this target group, as these pupils hardly get any other chance to visit foreign countries or travel in general. The school has 80 teachers including substitute teachers and 1396 pupils. ILS L.Acciaioli-L.Einaudi die Orton is a vocational secondary school in the Ortona region of Italy. It has a variety of technical specialisations in addition to the nautical specialisation. They train for industry in the region. The Turkish partner Gümüşhacıköy Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School is a vocational high school. All three schools have been participating in ERASMUS+ projects for years. Unfortunately, the Greek partner has withdrawn from the project due to the Corona rules in Greece. As a result, the mobilities have shifted a little, as can be seen in the timeline. Two of the mobilities were processed online. However, since we did not set fixed days but worked sporadically online in eTwinnig, we cannot calculate any costs. The results are very appealing. As described in the planning, the following needs actually emerged in the three schools: - The pupils of the Turkish school but also the German pupils were very little interested in science. Therefore, the traditional teaching methods were to be replaced by new ideas. - The students of the Italian school wanted to learn more innovative learning and teaching techniques to learn scientific work. - The pupils of our school need a lot of motivation, which they should get through experiments. The project was divided into phases for teachers only and phases for students. For the teachers: - Presentation of the educational systems of the countries - Comparison of science education curricula - Conditions for experimentation in the classroom - Research-development teaching method as a basis for science teaching that is problem-oriented and scientifically based on research - Cooperative learning as a way of leading pupils to (national and international) cooperation and personal responsibility For the pupils: - Many experiments that are simple but very impressive - Scientific work with experiments - Observing, recording and interpreting phenomena - Shared experiences in international groups even if it can be difficult in terms of language Evaluation of the objectives described in the application: 1. Cooperative learning was implemented as a new teaching method at Berufskolleg West. All pupils and teachers were involved in the methods. In addition to getting to know each other, the pupils worked on scientific topics such as "water", "fermenting" and experimented together. The teachers dealt with the principles of cooperative learning and divided methods according to the social goals. 2. The graduation rate this year increased slightly. Further goals need to be observed over a longer period of time. 3. 3. Through the methods of cooperative learning, the social goals were quickly achieved by the students and the communication goals were easy to implement. 4. the internationalisation of the schools was extended among the participating schools. 5. ideas for further KA202 applications were collected and already concretised.