The Erasmus project KA201, 4TEEN - Writing, Acting and Playing (4TEEN-WAP) is a horizontal priority - social inclusion - and is a strategic partnership for the exchange of good practices between schools facing similar problems, such as reducing the phenomenon of social exclusion, school dropout, discrimination of disadvantaged students who want a friendly learning environment. The partnership includes 8 high schools in Romania, Turkey, Croatia, Portugal, Italy, Macedonia and Poland, where extracurricular activities are currently carried out, but they have different experience in applying a social inclusion plan. The partnership also includes a non-governmental organization from Italy, which is also an institute of applied psychological sciences, in order to ensure the complementarity of the partnership and the cross-sectoral character of the project. The specific objectives are subordinated to the directions of the Erasmus + program, to national and European priorities, targeting both the school field and adult education. These are the following: 1. increasing the motivation of 200 students to use sport, reading and drama as means of social, cultural, economic, political and historical knowledge of their own country, as well as of the partner countries in order to expand the space in which they feel valued; 2. developing key competences, such as linguistic, digital and teamwork ones, of 200 students through educational, creative and integrative activities, in order to avoid school failure and early school leaving; 3. diversifying the teaching methods and IT tools of the 140 participating teachers, through a practical-experimental, active-interactive, interdisciplinary approach; 4. training 40 teachers by participating in courses in order to achieve social inclusion. The target group of this project is represented by 200 students aged 15-19, 40% of whom are from disadvantaged or at risk of school failure and 140 general subject teachers (the school’s stable human resource that will generate long-term effect) who will adapt their teaching strategies in order to attract disadvantaged students to school and will be trained in the field of social inclusion. 3 transnational meetings (Romania, Portugal and Turkey) aim at signing contracts, establishing working procedures, carrying out reports and verifying intellectual products. The 5 activities carried out by teachers and students (in Turkey, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania, Italy) contain English-language drama workshops, literary writing and sports activities which have the role to develop students' language skills, teamwork in an expanded intercultural environment, to stimulate creative thinking, challenging students intellectually, verbally, emotionally and physically, to enrich teachers with innovative teaching strategies through an interactive approach. 2 Training activities (Poland, Italy) will contribute to enriching the teachers with new class management skills, to improve the teaching, to integrate new working methods with the students and techniques for improving social identity in class, to prevent measures for bullying and antisocial behaviours and to promote prosocial behaviour in school. The Project results: - the decrease in the number of students dropping out of school and the failure rate; - developing participating students’ creativity, communication skills and teamwork; - the practise of students’ key competences; - stopping discrimination in school; - the organization in partner schools of school drama, sport and creative writing clubs that follow the personal development of young people; - intellectual results - the Guide for identifying students with educational risk, the Procedure for supporting / integrating disadvantaged students in formal and non-formal educational activities, the Guide for multilingual conversation, the European -- Curriculum - Teaching through the school club - teacher's kit, the course support Management of School Inclusion are all open educational resources available to everyone in the Open Educational Library; the diversification of teachers' educational strategies. The main impact at the school level aims at a better social inclusion of the students, the connection of the teachers to the new European tendencies in the field of education, the long-term use by as many schools and teachers of the OER materials included in the Open Educational Library. The impact is realized at local, regional, European and international level - and aims to create a unitary environment of sustainable and inclusive learning by adapting and updating curricula and organizational practices in education, increasing investments in educational programs oriented towards integrating sustainability principles, increased interest for the creation of strategic partnerships and synchronization of international educational policies, development of partner networks through Etwinning projects.
We pursued the achievement of the following specific objectives: 1. increasing the motivation for more than 200 students to practise sports, reading and theater as a means of social, cultural, economic, political and historical knowledge of their own country, as well as of partner countries in order to expand the space in which they feel appreciated; 2. the development of key skills, such as linguistic, digital and teamwork of more than 200 students through educational, creative and integrative activities, in order to avoid school failure and early school leaving; 3. diversification of teaching methods and computer tools of the 100 participating teachers (directly and indirectly), through a practical-experimental, active-interactive, interdisciplinary approach; 4. the training of 50 teaching staff by participating in training courses in order to achieve social inclusion.
The project (4TEEN-WAP) has social inclusion as a reference point and it is a strategic partnership for the exchange of good practices between schools facing similar problems, such as reducing the phenomenon of social exclusion, school dropout and discrimination of disadvantaged students who want a friendly learning environment. The partnership includes 8 high schools from Romania, Turkey, Croatia, Portugal, Italy, Macedonia, Poland, which carry out extracurricular activities, with different experience in putting a social inclusion plan into practice, and a non-governmental organization from Italy, which is also an institute of psychology, to ensure the complementarity of the partnership and the cross-sectoral nature of the project. The idea of the project started from the analysis of the common needs of the institutions involved in the partnership: increasing social inclusion, reducing school dropout, increasing the quality of the educational act, reducing discrimination. The local and trans-institutional context was taken into account and it was completed with the development of appropriate methodologies to identify, integrate and adapt the educational content at the curricular level in order to ensure an inclusive education.