This project arises from the need to attract attention to the education of gifted students using out of school learning areas. Museums are taken privately as out of school learning areas in this project as they are important cultural heritages of nations. We will both raise awareness for the education of gifted students and for the museums as out of school places as education should not be restricted in a classroom. So our main aim is to promote museums to be entertaining, creative,educational and functional institutions without excessive seriousness, and to be effective, sustainable and living institutions. In this way, we set an example of all other institutions as a learning model by their adopting our model and to promote these institutions’ functuonality. In this process, our objcetives are as follows: -to help gifted students learn by doing out of school areas, -to improve cultural dialogues between nations and transnations. -to create a socialization area for gifted students as they need it. -to raise awareness about the importance of out-of-school areas. -to raise awareness for the museums as important cultural heritages. The innovation of the project lies in the creation of specific activities in museums using the historical artifacts in these musuems as part of the activities. With the booklet and lesson plans which will be prepared by the participant educators will be important outputs of this project. As 4 partner organisation we come together to realize these objectives. We have planned 4 meetings, 2 TPM and two LTT. We will make gifted students join the LTTs and dissemination activities. First of all there will be a TPM in Greece. The first meeting will a kick-off meeting and all project details will be planned with face to face communication. The project will last 20 months and the meetings have been planned almost every 6 months. There will also be a virtual meeting to go through the project activities in the middle of the project duration. The final meeeting will be held in Italy to finalize the project, evaluate the impact and work to sustain the project results as well as disseminating it as much as possible. Except these meetings there will be two LTTs with the participance of students and teachers. In these LTTs students with the support of their teachers will carry out some activities in the museums of host countries. To the mobilities among gifted students especially having economic difficulties will be chosen. As they have economic difficulty this project will a good opportunity for them to see different countries, cultures, peers from different countries. The activities in each mobility have been planned with agreement of all partner country in this project and all these activities are planned to reach the objectives of the project. The expected tangible results are e-booklet, web site, sample museum school lesson plan (integration of museum activities with different lessons like social studies, geography, maths, drama, etc...) youtube channel and vlogs in which we will share the activities done during the mobilities. The methodology to be used in carrying out the project is non-formal education. This project is innovative in terms being the first for both developing gifted students education and teaching professions.
Οur objcetives were as follows: -to help gifted students learn by doing out of school areas, -to improve cultural dialogues between nations and transnations. -to create a socialization area for gifted students as they need it. -to raise awareness about the importance of out-of-school areas as education should not be restricted with schools only. Our main aim was to promote museums to be entertaining, creative,educational and functional institutions without excessive seriousness, and to be effective, sustainable and living institutions. In this way, we set an example of all other institutions as a learning model by their adopting our model and to promote these institutions’ functuonality.
With this project we tried to turn museums into a part of daily life instead of sense of the exhibition for antiquities. Today the need of reaching information and using it functionally should make a creative change in education necessary. Our main aim was to promote museums to be entertaining, creative,educational and functional institutions without excessive seriousness, and to be effective, sustainable and living institutions. In this way, we set an example of all other institutions as a learning model by their adopting our model and to promote these institutions’ functuonality. The heritage of museums maintains its importance only through being transferred to everybody without religional, gender and race discrimination, thus it can enlighten the next generation. We think that young generation, knowing their transcultural heritage and organic link of the past and the present, will excessively benefit from these lasting experiences obtained by international dialogues and different environment. Thanks to the effective and lasting dialogues that we tried to develop in museums,we hope that the international culture link will be more and more powerful and form the foundation of peace in the next centuries.