Our project is the result of collaborative work of five partner shools, from Romania, Portugal, Lithuania, Spain and Turkey who have previously worked together and know the weknesses of their schools. Since all partners deal with low interest, learning difficulties, multicultural classes, social interruption students, agressivity , health issues and lack of family support we have created this project to provide solution activities that can lead to our schools improvement. Developping arts and IT creative activities we want to support our students to embrace diversity and accept the differences and to sustain our teachers` professional development by means of creativity. Through this project we want to: 1. Raise the interest and involvement of 500 students aged 10-16 in learning activities by means of arts and IT . By the end of the project every student will have read 4 books, will have researched and developed by artistic/ artistic +digital means activities corresponding to 4 topics inspired by the 4 books. 2. Create an inclusive and supportive environment in the involved classes of our schools by embracing social, financial, health, religious, ethnic, learning differences.The activities within our project are flexible and various providing possibilities for each student to choose what is most suitable, thus finding what is most appropiate to their needs and creating an inclusive environment. 3. Decrease the absenteesism in our participating classes by 10% by the end of the first year and another 10% by the end of the second year of the project. By engaging our students in creative arts and IT activities we intend to raise their active participation and increase their interest in learning, thus preventing absenteeism and school drop out. 4. Support and enhance 45 teachers` professional development by means of ICT incorporation. Since this project uploads all its materials on eTwinning and embeds online participation it will enhance teachers` professional development by means of European communication and exchange of good practices. Our students will learn to work in international teams, to cooperate, will design and create books, will write articles, will make video trailers, design digital leaflets and posters, express emotions and identity through music, dance, painting or drama. Each semester of the project develops a theme that is related to a book to be read: I Semester: eSafety/ Cyberbullying/Bullying (march-august 2021) Book title: Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes II Semester: Express yourself ! (september 2021-february 2022) Book: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 by Sue Townsend. III Semester: Embracing diversity (march-august 2022) Book title: Acorn people by Ron Jones IV Semester: Social/Civic values ( september 2022-february 2023) Book title: Uncle Tom`s cabin by Harriet Bleecher Stowe. As tangible results of our project activities we will have: 1. Erasmus+ corner and Erasmus+Arts board; 2. Logo of the project; 3. Erasmus+eDiary in four chapters with representation of all the activities; 4. Inclusive Teaching eGuide- lesson plans for crosscurricular activities designed by participating teachers; 5. Website of the project; 6. eTwinning page of the project constantly uploaded; 7. facebook of the project. All materials, activities and results will be uploaded on the website and eTwinning page of the project. To ensure large disemination of the product they will be public for all students, teachers and other interested persons, so that they can be used as examples of good practice and new methods/strategy/pedagogy.
Through this project we intended to: 1.Raise the interest and involvement of 500 students aged 10-16 in learning activities by means of arts and IT . By the end of the project every student read 4 books, researched and developed by artistic/ artistic +digital means activities corresponding to 4 topics inspired by the 4 books. 2. Create an inclusive and supportive environment in the involved classes of our schools by embracing social, financial, health, religious, ethnic, learning differences.The activities within our project were flexible and diverse providing possibilities for each student to choose what was suitable and made them feel integrated and accepted and valued. 3. Decrease the absenteesism in our participating classes by 10% by the end of the first year and another 10% by the end of the second year of the project. By engaging our students in creative arts and IT activities we intended to raise their active participation and increase their interest in learning, thus preventing absenteeism and school drop out. 4. Support and enhance 45 teachers` professional development by means of ICT incorporation.
We applied for this project because we wanted to offer an alternative way of learning and because there were issues in our schools that prevented both students and teachers from achieving the best results. This project was created to respond to the following needs: 1.over-use of technology without an educational purpose made us create ICT based activities; this helped raising the atractivity of the lessons and students motivation.It is well known that students who face social/family/ economical difficulties have low motivation in school. 2. Students facing difficulties find it hard to integrate and most oftenly have agressive behaviour and tend to give up on education.In order to provide techology incorporating lessons we had to train our teachers first because the need analysis always said the lessons were not attractive. 3. all schools offered education to mixed cultures and different nationalities, therefore fostering an inclusive environment in our classes was highly important. We developed local and transnational activities that fostered creativity, tolerance, acceptance, anti-bullying attitude and cyber safety, and we provided our teachers trainings to develop professionally in an European context, by learning from their colleagues in partner schools. To enhance these skills and attitudes we designed activities that appealled to literature, music, drawing, creative writing, video making and editing, drama and crafts.