Enjoy English Effectively Erasmus Project

Project Title

Enjoy English Effectively

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Creativity and culture; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

Leek project focuses on improving the four language skills of students and increasing the success and awareness of the students in English language learning. The project includes planned activities to supply opportunities for the students to reach these targets. These targets are similar to 2020 the educational targets of European Reference Framework. The 2018 Council Recommendation on a comprehensive approach to the teaching and learning of languages outlines the current challenges and proposes an action plan aimed at:
•Boosting language learning by focusing on reaching specific competence levels,
•Introducing the concept of language awareness in education and training,
•Ensuring that more language teachers benefit from opportunities to learn and study abroad;
•Identifying and promoting innovative, inclusive and multilingual pedagogic, using European tools and platforms such as the School Education Gateway and e-twinning.
Inspired by these aims, we have built our Project goals as follows:
* To create a A1-A2 level English lesson timetable including 2 different activities which can be applied for European countries each month.
* To prepare ready and experienced English lesson materials and activities for English teachers
* While creating materials for other teachers , to increase the level of their own students from A1 to A2 with the materials and activities they produce
* To make English lesson enjoyable for their own students and for other students who use these materials and activities during the lessons
*To produce an e-book including all English lesson materials and games and some newspapers
*To produce card games or board games related to English lessons and hold a performance in English based on a script written by the students
*To compare and contrast all 5 countries curriculum and their English teaching styles and create a report about them
*To show English teachers that every place can be converted into a suitable environment for students to learn English
The project will last 24 months with partners from 4 countries which are Romania, Turkey, Latvia, and Bulgaria. Every month, the countries will produce English lesson materials and activities. Before the first meeting, all schools have to do some preparations. First, they will make a brainstorming about the time table of the project. Time table is the skeleton of the project so it has to be perfect. Each school is responsible for founding and carrying out different social media accounts. In the second month, all countries will prepare posters and logos. In the third month, schools will start creating activities. During the new year, all students will send happy new year cards each other. Every 4 month, the project will have transnational meetings. The first meeting will include brainstorming of all partners about the activity table. The teachers will bring their curriculum and compare and contrast them. They will create reports about them. Meetings will include observing lessons, presenting the activities and a variety of workshops and different games. All activities will be observed and evaluated. The activities can be accepted, rejected or modified as they have to be suitable for European countries. During students’ meetings, host countries will organize a game based on English lesson in a historical place or museum to show that every place can be a suitable environment to teach English with joy and enthusiasm. Kastamonu Science and Art center will prepare robotic coding with English workshops for teachers and students and Latvia will organize spelling bee competition for all students. In Bulgaria the meeting will be based on midterm evaluation. Firstly, all countries will evaluate the project and teachers will come together and evaluate it. In Turkey, the last meeting will be held and an e-book will be ready in this meeting. All teachers will organize different workshops for local teachers and introducing the e-book. The project will produce 4 newspapers including songs, poems, photos and enjoyable activities. During the mobilities students will be accommodated in host families with children from our partners’ schools so they will be able to practise English in real situation and learn more about different cultures.. One shared theater will be presented.
To disseminate the project results, social media will be actively used before, during and after the project. All schools have to hang a big signboard giving details of the project on the wall of the schools. All schools will work with local media. A website will be opened for supplying materials for English teachers. All schools will prepare the news on their school websites. The project E-book will be distributed through the internet. During the project, all schools have to prepare at least 4 seminars to at least 50 English teachers, students and families during the project. In this way, we are planning to create awareness in international, national and local areas.

Project Website

http://www.enjoyenglisheffectively.com

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 125080 Eur

Project Coordinator

Scoala Gimnaziala & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Kastamonu Bilim ve Sanat Merkezi
• YENISEHIR BELEDIYESI BILIM VE SANAT MERKEZI
• Dusho Hadzhidekov
• Liceul Teoretic “Ion Gh. Rosca”
• Priekuli Secondary school