TOGETHER FOR BETTER Erasmus Project

Project Title

TOGETHER FOR BETTER

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; Disabilities – special needs; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The project “Togheter for better” involved 5 schools from Romania, Turkey, Portugal, Macedonia and Poland.
The project aims to create a diverse learning and co-operative context for 300 disadvantaged and SEN students (10-19 years) and to enhance communication by supporting the effects of students on their lives and to be more active in inclusive environments. Learning outcomes can be improved and equity and efficiency grow with learning innovation, understood as the adoption of new services, technologies and skills.
The main objectives of the project are to focus directly on the issue of social inclusion and the development of key competences, such as: improving student performance, with emphasis on developing skills and digital competences in specific curricula; promoting motivation for learning and school participation through the implementation of attractive learning methodologies; Developing social skills such as cooperation, tolerance, through activities that offer them the opportunity to feel important, appreciated and socially integrated; reducing absenteeism; to improve teachers’ ability to use specific intervention strategies in situations of early school leaving risk.
The target group of the project includes about 300 students with SEN and disadvantaged (10-19 years) from partner institutions. 2 TPM, 1 LTTA and 2 short-term exchange of student groups are organized within the project. In the framework of the three transnational mobilities that will be for teachers: exchange of experience and practical innovation in social inclusion, the use of digital technologies in the classroom, and for pupils: working in intercultural groups, exchanging ideas and learning experiences in care will involve without any differentiation.
The project activities will lead to the development of results that can contribute to the educational inclusion interventions for social inclusion:
1. Web –tv. We are going to create a web tv including students’ activities and their products. The students are going to responsible for the development and streaming of the programs with the assistance of their teachers
2. E book creative way of learning. Creating e books will allow our students the imagination and they will take responsibility for their own learning progress.
3. Digital scrapbook. Students will put selfies and social media photos to good use. Students will gather all kinds of images from their digital devices into an adaptable scrapbook layout.
4. An accredited and dedicated digital competency curriculum to foster creativity and innovation and to support the professional development of teachers;
5. An online platform where teachers can exchange good practice and discuss on the social inclusion of students;
6. a course on social inclusion methods for teachers and parents.
The expected outcomes will focus on applied learning, addressing the transdisciplinary approach proposed to students, which exploit what they have learned through the formal curriculum but bring complementary elements, varied methodologies, specific to inclusive education that promote student-centered learning.
The materials produced in the project will be piloted at each school level and the results will be capitalized in the final form of the products.
In terms of project impact, the following can be mentioned:
-the students participants in mobilities will develop a set of socialization, communication, collaboration skills that can compensate for the lower functioning of other abilities (different depending on the degree of disability / educational education);
– developing a more inclusive environment at school partner level, with a greater degree of empathy and openness on the part of students without disabilities / disadvantaged;
– Developing the skills of teachers working with pupils from disadvantaged categories, both in didactic and promotion of inclusion, digital competences improvement;
– Promoting differentiated learning at school level, taking into account the characteristics of all students.
Project detail: https://twinspace.etwinning.net/82668/home

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 133346 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centrul Scolar pentru Educatie Incluziva Targu Jiu & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Zespol Szkol Mechanicznych w Namyslowie
• Osnovno uciliste so resursen centar ” Dr..Zlatan Sremec “-Skopje
• Agrupamento de Escolas Vieira de Araújo
• Yildiz Entegre Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi