Every Student is Important Erasmus Project

Project Title

Every Student is Important

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Ethics, religion and philosophy (incl. Inter-religious dialogue); Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

“Every Student is Important” Project was coordinated Spain and the partners Lithuania, Cyprus and Turkey with two schools. Communication language was English. Duration of the project was 24 months and the project was comprised the activities which had been planned, interdisciplinary approaches, pedagogic strategies, at the age of basic education
student groups between seven and twelve who have different religion, language, race, belief and special needy students and teachers who will provide multiple cultural education policy.

Multicultural education, is an approach which aims creating equal chance all the students who are coming from differentrace, ethnic-class and social groups and changing surrounding of the school and reconstruction it. Raising up effectual and prolific individuals who will be able to speak knowledgeably about international zone in next century, will become a
reality by means of reflection of multi-cultural education to learning atmosphere in Europe. In 21 st. Century, doing away with differences which lived in education and way of searching equal chance pedagogical approach gaining importance. Language, religion and ethnicity, race and discrimination which are based on belief are our all shared matter and also
dangerous. Our aim was forming cultural awareness both in Europe and in the world, improving multiple point of view, adopting democratic structure of society, providing critical-thinking towards prejudice, gaining identity by humanistic approach, developing skills and attitudes which rejected any kind of discrimination; planning integral education for the students who were exposed to the discrimination and not only in the school but also parents and collaborators became effective for the solution of this matter. Throughout the completion of this project, we had an initial transnational meeting in Linares(Spain), three learning, teaching, training activities, one in Cyprus, one in Lithuania and one in Spain.

Unfortunately due to the recent at that time terrorist attacks in Turkey, we changed the meeting in Turkey-Mersin with a meeting in Lithuania-Vilnius and also, we added another transnational meeting in Turkey(Kütahya) , as an act of good will from the rest of the partners and given that all partners agreed that there was still a lot of work to be done and
clarified. We had worked a calendar from month to month in order and that continued for 24 months. We did our activities according to this working calendar one by one. In the light of two years of working the calendar we prepared with our collaborators through the agency of multi-cultural education curriculum booklet, song of Project and video-clip,
best-practices e-book, poster exhibition, logo, project website, project board, banner, e-Twinning project, pantomime workshops and an Art contest. Students drew posters about discrimination, constituted a Student Council against struggling with discrimination, and we wrote motto and proclamation, designed Street of awareness, they created
awareness by means of street-dance, donated to UNICEF, they learnt structuring of tile in tile workshop, with their parents they did activities such as drama about democracy, peace and participated in activities of empathy workshop.

We learnt different techniques and methods from each other during the project implementation. These approaches were also used: team-work cooperation, workshop, street dance shows, interdisciplinary and the Socratic questioning approach. Students were encouraged to work in teams, motivation, gaining self- confidence, respect and tolerance with
these methods. Partners were permanently kept involved and in touched with each other via WhatsApp, and the net like Facebook, email, Skype etc during the project. Students gained high motivation, ICT skills, communication in language, toleration, love, respect of cultural variety, awareness, skill of discrimination’ refusal, cooperatives’ emotion
and self-reliance. And this values helped them to become persons who contribute to the world’s peace, to adopt lifelong in future. Teachers who attended with the other partners gained a lot such as; many cultural education strategies, development of good examples based on problem-solving, flexible syllabus, learning new approaches. Related stakeholders got more aware towards struggle and disposed support the future. During and at the end of the Project, we had important outcomes, such as our web page of the project, our project logo, best practices e-book, a booklet about the multi-cultural education curriculum, a video-clip, an Awareness Street in each partners’ school, a new e-Twinning project, a poster exhibition about ways for struggling against discrimination, a webinar about inclusion, a project board and a banner. You can find our documents, visual and videos about project in net and local press, project website, blog, Facebook, Youtube and other social networking applications (i.e. padlet, whatsapp).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 106884 Eur

Project Coordinator

Sociedad Cooperativa Andaluza de Enseñanza Colegio San Joaquín de Linares & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Inonu Ilkokulu
• OZEL DUMLUPINAR ORTA OKULU
• Vilniaus Tuskulenu gimnazija
• DIMOTIKO SCHOLEIO PERIVOLION