From ancient to modern: Challenging obstacles at a stroke with sport Erasmus Project

Project Title

From ancient to modern: Challenging obstacles at a stroke with sport

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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

SUMMARY:Today there are some problems which are common for all nations in Europe. One of this problem is early school leavings. When we look European commission report, Turkey has the highest rate on early school leavings. From this point we examined our school’s situation, we made a need analysis. What was the first priority of our school? The answer was clear. There were school absenteeism in high rates in the classes. They were especially disabled or disadvantaged students. Because of their absenteeism, their achievement has fell down. Their motivation and concentration problems were raising enourmously. Day by day they were sitting in front of the computer and playing games with it much more. Sitting was bringing some health problems such as obesity and isolation from the social life. We had to put a stop at that point. We tried to develop an innovative method to take their attention to school and making them more sociable.
In the context of this method, the objectives of the project are that,
1.Decreasing school absenteesim from15% to 5%.
2.Taking attention of students to school by making school a place more joyful.
3.To gain self-confidence to disabled and disadvantaged students (İncreasing rate of self-confidence 20%).
4.Increasing concentration on a point, motivation and positive attitudes toward school.
5.Teaching eight different and unknown sports; mangala, matrak, hemsball (Turkish sports), discus, javelin, long-jump with weight, running and wrestling (ancient Greek style of them) to students and taking them from in front of the computer.
6.By the help of sport increasing social relationships, integrating disabled and disadvantaged students to society and decreasing obesity problems.
7.To introduce a diffrent nation by showing its similarities and differences and by giving chance of visiting a foreign country.
8.Teaching old Turkish, Ottoman and Ancient Greek sports at least 878 pupils 42 teachers, introduce and disseminate them at least 3020 person and different nations all around the world.
9.Gaining to set goal and problem solving skills in order to have life long lasting multidisciplined skills by teaching strategy developing.
10.Mathematic achievement will increase 10%
11.Teaching fair play
Number of participants and profiles of them; the participants are two schools from Turkey and Greece.These schools are coming from low socia economic level.The students on target group are 10-12 years old.Turkish school has 10.2% and Greece 9% divorced family children,3% disabled students and %10 students with high rate of absenteeism also in both schools (at least 25 day per a term). These students were totaly 144.They are the target group of study, but they are not the only participants of project.920 students from both school learnt and trained on concentration, motivation, setting target by the way of eight sports.14 teachers from partner schools joined the project as a teacher, trainer, referee, writer, curriculum developer, expert of assesment and evaluation or accompanying person with the certificate of special education.38 teachers joint to learn and disseminate that methodology.138 teacher learnt the project games. 200 students from different schools joint the trainings at partner schools.To reach our objectives, eight sports were used in the project. Because children like sports and games.Psychomotor activities provided them to gained high concentration and to took their interest also made their body healthier with the help of courses held on our schools. For these reasons, the sports which focus on concentration, balance and setting target were chosen to the project; mangala, a strategy game; matrak is a concentration game; hemsball; discus; javelin,;long-jump with weights are balance, concentration and setting target games.As activity, firstly teachers at partner schools were trained, then students who were in target group were trained, two schools met in Turkey and Greece to teach their own sports. At the begining of second year there was a big tournament in Greece and at the end of the project there were an olympiad games in Turkey.During the project bimonthly journal, video posters, broshures, slogans in the context of fair play were published and distrubuted.A book was published and a conference was held as intellectual output. For evaluation, before and after the project, motivation, concentration, attitude scales, sport knowledge test, Matematical problem solving skills test was applied and compared the results.As a result 878 students developed their concentration, motivation and attıtude toward school. They were much more pleasent at the school.Probabilty of early leaving school will be decreased. They learnt setting target and eight traditional, forgetton sports. They had multicultured and multi disciplined skills and certificates. The skills will help them during lifetime.Nearly 3600 people were introduced Turkish, Ottoman, Greek sports culture by training, conference, media.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 65780 Eur

Project Coordinator

MEHMET HIKMET KASERCI ORTAOKULU & Country: TR

Project Partners

• 9th Primary School of Rethymno