21st CENTURY SCHOOLS Erasmus Project

Project Title

21st CENTURY SCHOOLS

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The Motto of the project is ‘I hear and I forget.I see and I believe.I do and I understand.’- Confucius.
New technologies are constantly changing the way we learn, work, live and function in a digital and knowledge-based society.Life is increasingly non-routine, problem-based and technology rich. That’s why education systems are moving away from solely content-led approaches, and focusing more on helping learners develop a range of competences and student-based learning systems to cope in the complex world.
Therefore,the necessity of this project has its origins in the need of enhancing the motivation for students and teachers by learning 21st Century Key Competences and innovative teaching techniques which will be integrated into the curriculum and School Development Strategy Plan in order to create student-based learning system and decrease the school dropout rates which is a big problem throughout Europe and World.
The Aims of the Project ;
•To develop ICT literacy skills and ensure the access to and use of innovative teaching and learning practices by the teachers under the umbrella of this project. The project will enable the success of teaching and learning tecniques by reducing isolation, mentoring success, transforming experiences of exclusion to ones of inclusion, offering encouragement and hope, and fostering group dialogue and peer learning among the schools.
• To reduce early school leaving(nearly %10 at present)and decrease it ( min.%7) in the communities.
•To convert students’ attention to education by using their addictiveness on internet and games
• To develop the 21st Century Key competences such as Collaborative Problem Solving Skills,Critical Thinking,etc.
such as ICT, linguistic and language competences using ways of teaching and learning focused on children
• To implement the European dimension amongst all participants, encourage them to be open-minded,
• To use ICT as international instrument of communication, elaboration, evaluation and dissemination of the outcomes
• To improve students’ and teachers’ communication, group working skills, the use of English as common language
• To compare methods of teaching and learning, values of education, school organization and curriculum in order to adapt innovative ways of teaching and learning methods to the School Strategic Plans
• To motivate the Fewer Oppotunities students into School Atmosphere.
We will perform the project activities with students aged 13 to 16 years old to achieve the objectives of the Project.We are also going to involve Pupils at risk at the mobilities and also local events.The pupils and teachers will work directly on the Project, but nearly the whole school communities in town or city will be involved in it.Pupils and teachers will collaborate and investigate innovative ways of learning and teaching.
We will also constitute a committee including 2 teacher,2 parents,2 students,and 1 person from district national education directorate (if possible ) to choose people who is going to participate in mobilities, to evaluate the Project and to disseminate the results .
The project has 6 partners from Romania,Portugal,Lithuania,Belgium,Greece and Turkey (As a coordinator)
The Time Schedule of the Project:
1st Mobility in Portugal November 2018 2 Teachers 5students
2nd Mobility in Lithunaia March 2019 2 Teachers 5 students
3rd Mobility in Greece May 2019 2 Teachers 5students
4th Mobility in Belgium October 2019 2 Teachers 5 students
5th Mobility in Turkey May 2020 2Teachers 5 students
During the mobilities,Teachers and Students will find out 21st Century Key Competences,Flipping the Classroom,E-safety,Gamification Methods,Using Web 2.00 tools,Education System of Each Country,Observing the lessons and New Teaching Tecniques,How to Increase Students Collaborative Problem Solving Skills,Project-Based Learning System,about 21st Century Assessments and Evaluation and Coding Tools.
The project will have intangible (in term of skills ,Innovative Tecniques ,Digital Competences,and attitudes development,students’ self-confidence ,self-esteem,self actualization and aim-meaning relationship,international Friendship) and tangible results such as 4 E-twinning projects and space, Webpage Blog;Groups on E-twinning,School Education Gateway,Workshops,Lectures,Articles,E-book,E-dictionary and Coding Competion for Disabled etc)Students will also learn about other cultures,diversities,being tolerant ,being European Citizen.
Students and teachers will comprehend ‘Learning is also more permanent and fun when we use these innovative tecniques’ We’ll also evaluate the project at each mobility and 6 months period .
The use of innovative methods in educational institutions has the potential not only to improve education, but also to empower people,strengthen governance and revivify the effort to achieve the human development goal for the country and Europe.

Project Website

https://21-st-centuryschools.jouwweb.be

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 57129 Eur

Project Coordinator

ULAMIS ORTAOKULU & Country: TR

Project Partners

• GO! Atheneum Geraardsbergen
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Canedo
• GENIKO LYKEIO TYCHEROU
• Kedainiu rajono Krakiu Mikalojaus Katkaus gimnazija
• Colegiul Auto Traian Vuia