Follow the rhythm of MUSIC Erasmus Project

Project Title

Follow the rhythm of MUSIC

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social dialogue; Creativity and culture; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

Children learn a lot at a young age through hearing. Therefore, the first resources to be used are the music, the songs that can be audited, repeated and that the children can remember. The songs are usually accompanied by movement, they determine us to use body language and gestures. Children are on the constant move, they cannot sit as adults can,therefore we associate the learning process with dancing. Secondly, from a visual point of view, music creates a connection between word and image. There are many ways through which we consolidate the acquisition of a foreign language,but the most important ones are the music and the role-play in which learners play a certain role, in which each one plays his or her part, and in this way they manage to accomplish a specific meaningful act of communication.At first, both the young and the adult learners develop the ability to understand. Before being able to communicate, children will understand, will assimilate a lot.
OBJECTIVES
1. promote language learning and increase the voluntary participation of early-age learners in learning process
2. allow the sharing of best practices between English teachers across Europe
3. enable English teachers to develop themselves professionally
4. improve the language acquisition process and the development of students’ communicative skills
5. develop the self-esteem and confidence of the young learners by using English
6. cultivate respect for foreign people, intercultural friendships and tolerance.
NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS
Teachers- pre-primary and primary English teachers. In each transnational meeting we will involve 2 teachers from each country. They are teachers at primary level and their work in the project will be in the center of attention. They will participate directly in the project, by attending the mobilities, but also indirectly, by organising activities with young learners before and after each transnational meeting.
Young learners – are interested in the project’s communication and interaction online, including music into their English courses. In our schools , young children will be at the center of the events at their school’s transnational meeting. They attend online conferences before the mobilities where they speak about their own country with their peers. In each transnational meeting 5 students from each partner country will be involved.
MAIN ACTIVITIES
We will organize 5 exchanges, each dedicated and hosted by each partner involved in the project :
C1: Person-Centred Approach-hosted by Belgium
C2: Suggestopedia-hosted by Turkey
C3: Communicative Approach-hosted by Spain
C4: Learning by doing-hosted by Italy
C5: Community Language Learning-hosted by Romania
METHODOLOGY
Teachers work with learners In order to prepare for the specific topic of the mobility, perform and test musical activities. Based on the feedback provided by the students, teachers choose the practices and extend it to host students during LTTAS.
In C1, C2, C3 and C4 the organizers coordinate activities such as round tables and seminars on the themes such as Person-CentredApproach,Suggestopedia,Communicative Approach,Learning by doing and Community Language Learning,in which participants analyze the conceptual dimensions of using songs in language courses,conceiving a specific lesson plan for each theme.
In C5, partners compile the practices from the previous mobilities and modify the final content product–a catalogue of European songs. All partners organise a regional workshop with teachers from EFL.
RESULTS
Outputs: They carry out comparative analyzes in C1 between partner countries regarding their educational systems, EFL curricula. We will create 5 sets of lessons plans as a result of C1-C5, which will be posted on an open access platform and they will also be presented at national conferences . Other products include learners’ work, presentations of the partner countries, language portfolios, websites, social media pages, evaluation and effectiveness reports, development plan, five regional conferences to disseminate the final products, leaflets , the final output “Singing our life,,(DVD project ),students’ travel journals ,the eTwinning space ,Europass mobility documents , certificates of attendance
IMPACT AND LONG-TERM BENEFITS
Schools will improve their human capital resource because well-prepared English teachers are developping an European network that can connect beyond the schools. Learners will improve their knowledge of English and thus will have better results in school competitions. Educational institutions without previous Erasmus + projects will get the necessary experience in carrying out their future international projects.

Project Website

http://www.erasmusandmusic.com

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 139400 Eur

Project Coordinator

Institut Saint-Joseph école fondamentale & Country: BE

Project Partners

• Istituto Comprensivo Statale Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
• KAYISDAGI ARIFPASA ILKOKULU
• Ceip Es Pil·larí
• Clubul Copiilor Victoria