Holistic Approach Schools of 21st century Erasmus Project

Project Title

Holistic Approach Schools of 21st century

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; Pedagogy and didactics; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The main motivation of this project is to introduce our children important skills and methods such as stress management, getting out of automatic mode, learning to focus and soften emotional transitions. Healthy minded children are our healthy future. Scientific activities such as Mindfulness, P4C, Emotional Intelligence have been compiled to achieve this goal.
Coordinator Cafer Yener Primary School met P4C and Mindfulness thanks to the project “Mind and Body A Healthier Tomorrow”. Our school continued to apply this method with different partners on the Etwinning platform after the project was completed, and met many schools and trainers who conducted these applications. We intend to share our expertise with each other through the activities of our project and develop together.

Emotional, intellectual, physical and spiritual: We believe in a holistic approach that cares and nurtures all the child’s development. There is an increase need for focusing on well-being of pupils due to family dismemberment, parenting problems, social media, cyberbullying, bad body image and exam pressures. P4C (Philosophy for Children) activities will carefully encourage well-being through emotional intelligence work, enabling our children to meet the pressures they face, teach them the flexibility, haverealistic expectations, perspective, or overwhelming anxiety thoughts. Our goal is to create a positive environment in the school and to develop intercultural, social thinking and emotional competence among all participants. We want to reduce bullying problems by promoting positive learning environments with proven emotional intelligence activities, P4C activities and Mindfulness techniques. We aim to encourage a positive diversity in our schools and reduce discrimination by developing empathy skills. Thanks to these internal changes occurring in individuals, we expect all these positive changes to improve in the societies our children will create.

Participants: We are 5 diligent schools that come together due to having the similar conditions that are mentioned in descriptions. We all had some problems and carry out innovative studies for the solution of these problems. All of our schools are dynamic primary schools open to development, which have worked collaboratively in our Etwinning project “Mindfulness in Education”, on which this application is based upon.
Educational visits are planned in all partner countries. All of these meetings are equipped with the learning of new activities that will improve our Etwinning project, workshops that will equip participants with new methods and techniques, jobshadowing activities, real communication and interaction with students. The planned activities are productive activities that meet our project goals, where we meet to produce our concrete results.

Throughout the project, many measures have been planned for the safety of the participants, transparent and fair project management, e-security measures, meaningful evaluation and effective dissemination. In order to achieve the project objectives and to produce the desired concrete outputs, all the work we planned is a common product of the participating schools, and content production has been done through task sharing and reconciliation.
For the evaluation of the project, we have 4 online tests that we plan to apply as a pretest at the beginning of our project: Mindfulness Test, Empathy Test, Emotional Intelligence Test and NLP Test. These tests are accredited tests prepared by experts of the subject. At the end of the project, the post-test will be applied and the scientific relationship between these tests will be concrete results that will show how useful our activities are to achieve our project goals. At the end of our project, a general satisfaction survey will be implemented for students, teachers and parents. With this questionnaire, it will be questioned whether the project has reached its objectives. In addition, team members formed by announcing the project to the whole school at the beginning of the year will write personal reports at the end of each semester. The reports will include statistical information of the activities carried out, feedback from students and parents to the activities, and the personal development of the teacher throughout the project. These minutes and reports will also be a basis for our success. Also, a general evaluation video will be shot and shared.
All activities of our project will be shared on our project website, in the Twinspace of our Etwinning project and on our social media accounts. All results will be uploaded to PRP (Project Results Platform). Partner schools are obliged to deliver their work to as many people as possible through local authority visits, brochures, posters, promotional products, project corners and boards, parent groups, printed and digital media.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 128743 Eur

Project Coordinator

CAFER YENER ILKOKULU & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Zespol Szkolno- Przedszkolny w Przyszowicach
• Law Primary School, South Lanarkshire
• Moneyrea Primary School
• CPR Salado-Breña