Creative readers Erasmus Project

Project Title

Creative readers

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: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Creativity and culture; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

Primary School Josip Kozarac, Lipovljani from Croatia is the coordinator of the project “Creative Readers”, which is in line with the National Reading Support Strategy 2017-2022 and the document Europe 2020: a Strategy for Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive Growth. The project seeks to promote reading as a fundamental educational activity. We consider this topic to be extremely relevant since reading is the basic ability and essential for any other learning process. Educational opportunities of students depend greatly on their reading skills. So, we have set the development of literacy and encouragement of students to read actively and critically as the main objectives of the project in order to develop key competencies, according to our priorities, by raising the target groups’ social inclusion and motivation for reading. This project offers solutions to the specific educational problems of certain groups in our school (students with disabilities, students members of national minorities and students in combined classes). In accordance with the set goals and priorities, we have selected partner schools from the Czech Republic, Greece, Latvia, and Macedonia, to share experiences of good practice, to provide dissemination of the best examples and solutions in several countries at the same time, and to approach the problem of reduced interest in reading from a broader viewpoint, not just from our country. All the planned activities have been formed to achieve the main goals and to provide a solution to specific problems of target groups. In cooperation with partner schools, we have methodologically developed project activities to connect them and the expected objectives and results. Accordingly, we have arranged the following activities: days of integrated lessons (reading list without borders, a book fair, promotion of selected books…), interpersonal and intercultural correlations, participation in national minorities’ language lessons, creative interpretations of literary works by connecting literature with other arts (comics, film, picture books, radio games, dramatization), activities adapted to gifted students and the ones with disabilities, and participation in extracurricular activities. Planned mobility activities and other project activities will be conducted according to the specifics of each school. It is important to keep in mind that every activity will be focused on the achievement of the project’s main objective.
Target groups of the project are students with disabilities, students members of national minorities, students in combined classes as well as all the other students and interested teachers, especially those who teach mother tongue, foreign languages, art, music, and other subjects that can correlate with literature. The first mobility is planned for teachers and the other four for students. 2 teachers from each partner school will attend the first mobility, and 5 students (11 to 15 years old) accompanied by 2 teachers from each school will attend the other four mobilities. The teachers’ mobility at the Primary School Josip Kozarac, the project coordinator, will last 5 workdays (without travel). 2 partner school teachers from different literary and art fields will take part in these activities together with the host students. The expected results from this cooperation are: to gain a higher motivation and students’ interest in reading literary works, to develop reading habits which will increase the level of students’ confidence, to prevent early school leaving, to develop students’ critical thinking, and to increase their educational opportunities, especially of those who belong to more vulnerable groups. Students will also develop ICT competencies because our project includes the use of the eTwinning platform through which students will recognize the positive side of technology and the Internet, and see how technology can be used for educational purposes. Teachers will fulfill their education through formal and informal learning, and enrich their teaching methods with innovative and creative approaches and technologies by exchanging experiences and using a brochure with examples of the interpretation of literary works and videos of creative lessons. All the new experiences will be included in the curriculum of each school. The project activities will thus continue even after the project period, as both teachers and students will pass on the acquired competencies within the school environments and use them regularly. Being aware of the fact that the problem of reduced interest in reading cannot be solved only during the project period, we plan to use a systematic approach to the problem and to continue with the project even after its formal completion. The acquired knowledge and skills will have a long-term impact as the project results will be used continuously at the school level and will, therefore, improve the development of the school, as well as the local and broader community.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 112070 Eur

Project Coordinator

Osnovna skola Josipa Kozarca & Country: HR

Project Partners

• Zakladni skola a Materska skola Opava – Male Hostice, prispevkova organizace
• OOU Lazo Angelovski
• Saldus novada pasvaldibas Druvas vidusskola
• 4 DIMOTIKO PEFKON