BEYOND THE SCHOOL Erasmus Project

Project Title

BEYOND THE SCHOOL

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

The purpose of the Beyond The School Project is to strengthen the teaching profession profile to use out-of-school learning (LOtC) environments correctly and effectively; to bring together the areas of duty as education supervisors in places outside the school for the same purpose as teachers and students; planning the learning processes in an integrated way; to provide the students who carry out their lessons in different places to carry their learning to all areas of their lives and to transfer the social and educational value of the cultural, natural and industrial heritage of the world we live to the future generations. The project aims to produce concrete outputs that can be used by bringing together the employees for this purpose in different occupational groups in order to use the LOtC environments to support planned and classroom teaching. Our project will develop innovative methods, learning materials and tools for educators in the field, taking advantage of different experiences and expertise of schools, regional education authority, museum, science centre and local government in accordance with its priority and purpose. The project consists of a series of activities that will take 30 months in total and 2 LTT and 4 TPM are planned in the project. This period is devoted to organizing, implementing, evaluating and expanding the project activities. To participate in all activities and activities, it is necessary to work with students in out-of-school learning environments. 4 experts from each institution will participate in LTTs and 2 experts from each institution will participate in TPMs.

We can divide the project determined activities into the following main headings:
Situation Analysis / LOtC National Info Pack: The first activity in the project is the situation analysis and the National Info Pack in the field. With this activity, the applications of the LOtC environments of the partners in their countries, the place of out-of-school education in school education and their approach to LOtC will be evaluated. The situation analysis will form the basis of all activities of the project. By bringing together the national information packages prepared by each partner country by the coordinator, a report (LOtC International Info Pack) with comparative examples and practices in the field will be prepared and will be a resource for both the project team and those working in the field.

With the 2 LTTs to be organized within the scope of the project, it will be prepared in such a process that will increase the competencies of the training personnel of the partner institutions and infrastructure will be provided for the activities by including the exchange of good practices. For practical workshops for students, schools and other institutions will come together in the project and prepare joint activities for students, using different teaching methods of different environments. LOtC environments will be handled both curricular based on locations and will be grouped as a cultural, industrial and natural heritage in heritage transfer. With these activities, students will be enabled to learn effectively by including them in a planned lesson based on practice outside of school. Partner schools will implement and evaluate activities prepared by the consortium with at least 5 teachers and 50 students and other institutions with at least 3 teachers and 30 students. Results will be reported and activities will be revised based on the data obtained.

The activities experienced by the students will be published on the web page which will be prepared by the educators in short videos and will provide convenience to everyone in the use of the LOtC E-Guide completed at the end of the project. The children will go to the places where they study with their families, and parent-child interaction will both reinforce the topics learned and will be used efficiently and effectively outside the school. At the end of the project, together with the education staff who know the places and the teachers who know the students well, they will bring together the activities, pilot applications and evaluate the activities. Then the coordinator institution will prepare the E Guide of LOtC as an open-source by collecting the data from the partners.

Our expectation from the results of the project is to enable educators to use the out-of-school learning (LOtC) environments effectively and efficiently, to contribute to the inclusion of LOtCenvironments in the education programs of schools with the status of a widespread educational institution and to link the heritage transfer with the LOtC. Students who perform their lessons in LOtC environments will be associated with daily life, and they will have the opportunity to learn by living through classroom walls. Effective and permanent learning will be provided that they will embody soft information. By activating creative thinking and imagination, they will realize life-based learning.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 138976 Eur

Project Coordinator

Bursa Il Milli Egitim Mudurlugu & Country: TR

Project Partners

• BURSA BUYUKSEHIR BELEDIYESI
• SAHIN YILMAZ ILKOKULU
• UNIVERSIDAD DE CASTILLA – LA MANCHA
• SOCIEDADE AFONSO CHAVES- ASSOCIAÇãO DE ESTUDOS AÇOREANOS
• Fondazione Museo dell’Industria e del Lavoro “Eugenio Battisti”
• Miedzynarodowa Szkola Podstawowa Edukacji Innowacyjnej w Lodzi