Through this project, we aimed to: - Enhance the understanding of children with special education needs, particularly those with emotional, behavioral, and learning difficulties. - Equip educators with both theoretical and practical methods to better support children with special needs. - Create and adapt physical learning environments that facilitate learning for these children. - Explore and implement new approaches to teaching social skills to children with special needs. - Foster stronger communication and cooperation between educators and families. - Promote peer collaboration to better integrate children with special needs into broader learning groups. - Update and strengthen the skills of professionals working in this field, while providing them with an intercultural and international perspective, helping them implement innovative strategies in their daily work.
We applied for this project to address the specific educational and social needs of children with special education requirements, such as those facing emotional, behavioral, or learning challenges. Teachers, educators, and staff lacked sufficient training on how to create an inclusive and adaptive learning environment for children with special needs. Our aim was to address these gaps by providing participants with the skills and knowledge to improve their work with children who have special education needs, thus creating a more inclusive, supportive, and effective learning environment. Collaborative work had significant impacts on teachers. Thanks to the workshops, teachers gained both theoretical knowledge and practical experience and observed the positive effects of different collaborative learning techniques on children with special needs. Experienced that collaborative learning with methods such as music, dance, digital educational games, creative drama and Orff applications developed social skills in students and made learning processes more effective. By participating in collaborative learning processes, they had the opportunity to develop themselves professionally and share knowledge and experience with other teachers.