ACTIVE MINDS, MOVING HANDS Erasmus Project

Project Title

ACTIVE MINDS, MOVING HANDS

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

ACTIVE MINDS,MOVING HANDS
This project is a KA2 startegic partnerships for sharing good practices. The partner institutions are Aliağa Directorate of National Education, Atatürk Secondary School, Yenişakran Yunus Emre Secondary School, Petkim Primary School, Hasbi Şengül Primary School, Aliağa Kindergarden, Zakladni skola Dr. Edvarda Benese,Scoala Gimnaziala Gheorghe Magheru Caracal,CEIP El Rubial,4th Secondary School Iraklion Crete.
Having studied and discussed the STEM Report of Turkish Municipality of Education, the local partners from Aliağa decided to organize a project on STEM and how can it be applied in public schools in Turkey. We chose our priorites which were promoting the acquisition of skills and competences and strengthening the profiles of the teaching profession. First as the local partners, we searched the private schools which applied STEM successfully, we visited their schools and shared ideas with STEM teachers. As a certain description of STEM has not been made yet, we studied and searched the successful applications of it. Then we made a project proposal on e-twinning and school education gateway portals. The international partners were carefully chosen according to their experince on the project theme. Thanks to their experince and the successfull practice they have in their own schools, we could form our partnership.
To realize our project and its aims, we concentrated our activities in 7 dimensions.These are: Technological dimension(which mainly includes skype calls,logo contest and coding activities) ; Game Dimension ( creating board games and tangram days for school environment) ; ecological dimension ( recyrcling activities,renewable energy sources and an ecological garden) ; Cultural Dimension( stem song, stem song CD) ; designing and innovation dimension (the update of Erasmus+ project corners with STEM activities, Stem classdesigning, presentations of these designings) ; Social Dimesion ( Home for street animals, manger for birds, voiced tale, embossed book, albhabeth for blingd people); The STEM festival ( a big organized event for all the project products to be shown to the local environment).
During the project cycle, we planned to have 4 project meetings and 1 LTTA. Totally 76 people will actively take part in project meetings and the LTTA.
Thanks to this project, the Turkish partners are expecting to be ready and equipped for the change in the curriculum which is going to made by Turkish Ministry of Education. Through the fruitful cooperation within the schools , we expect to contribute to the professional development of teachers and the students’ basic skills.
After 24 months of active communication and cooperation, all the partner schools and the coordinator added a lot to their organizations. The
project teachers cooperated, learned,experienced and developped. The acquisition of STEM skills,getting to know the newest educational technologies and equiping the partner schools with the materials necessary for 21st century skills can be listed as the most valuable earnings of “ACTIVE MINDS, MOVING HANDS”. This project’s priorities were promoting the acquisition of skills and competences, strengthening the profiles of teaching profiles.
Thanks to the 7 dimensions and the activities planned , we aimed and succeded to implement more effective and innovative learning atmosphere.The project activitieshelped a lot to improve student’s social,cultural and foreign language skills as their academic development in basic sciences. As an important part of the project. ICT, web2.0 tools wre used effectively. All the partners affectively used Etwinning platforms and in at the end they applied for Quality Lebel. With the activities set beforehand and eloborated as the experience of STEM improved, the students were able to improve their problem solving skills, they both got fun and found appropriate solutions when they encountered diffrent problem stuations.
The project was carried out transnationally: 3 TPMs and 1 LTTA in partner countries: our main aim as to share good practices and we had the chance to create environment in which we learnt a lot from each other. After 2 years of active involvement in STEM education and teaching skills, the partners are now a lot eqipped with both the knowledge and the tangible materials in their schools.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 113650 Eur

Project Coordinator

ALIAGA ILCE MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU & Country: TR

Project Partners

• ATATURK ORTAOKULU
• Hasbi Sengul Ilkokulu
• ALIAGA ANAOKULU
• Scoala Gimnaziala Gheorghe Magheru Caracal
• Zakladni skola Dr. Edvarda Benese
• PETKIM ILKOKULU
• CEIP El Rubial