Bez obawy- pakiet integracyjny dla uczniów różnych narodowości w Ciro’ i w Zamościu Erasmus Project

Project Title

Bez obawy- pakiet integracyjny dla uczniów różnych narodowości w Ciro’ i w Zamościu

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Migrants’ issues; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

The “No worries – integration package for students of different nationalities in Ciro ‘and Zamość” project was implemented in the period 01/09/2016 – 31/08/2018 by III High School in Zamość (coordinating school) and Liceo Scientifico at Istituto Omnicomprensivo “L.Lilio “in Ciro” in Italy (partner school). The project participants were teachers and students of both schools, coming from Italian, Polish and migrant families: 87 students (including 12 students from migrant and mixed families in both schools), parents, city authorities of both partners and cultural institutions joined in the activities. The main goal was to draw attention to the need for inclusive education related to the stay of a foreign student at school and to propose forms of work with such a student based on the experience and programs developed in Italy and the current experiences of cooperation. The result of our project “Integration Package ..” is to facilitate their acclimatization in the first period of learning mainly in Poland, but also in later stages in Italy, and to show teachers how to reduce communication barriers and how to encourage second-generation migrant students to study the culture of the target country. It presents our schools in a student-friendly way, encouraging foreigners to communicate, indicating the role of good gestures in the first days in a foreign school, showing our system of values . For the Italian partner on the Moodle platform there are handouts for teachers of the Italian language and biology( difficult to teach) and lesson scenarios about culture and literature. The materials were developed by pupils (multilingual flashcards, thematic glossaries, welcome films at school, behavior rules at school), guidelines for teachers were developed by students and teachers involved in the project (lesson plans, opinions, hints). Joint work of the whole group during mobility served to increase mutual openness to others and to develop communication skills needed especially in the initial phase of school stay. The second goal was to develop students’ socio-linguistic skills and motivation to learn foreign languages and the culture of their country of residence. The students learned to “speak with the body” in order to establish first friendly contacts. During mobility in mixed groups, workshops and language courses they also learned phrases in Polish, Italian and Ukrainian. They learned acceptance of otherness within the limits adopted in the receiving environment by the local “savoir-vivre”. They were motivated to learn languages by systematic work on the Moodle platform developing dictionaries and language cards in Ukrainian, Polish, Italian and English and attending classes the “Erasmus Thursdays” at the Polish school, devoted to didactic issues, integration and the development of “hard” project results. Using the Moodle platform and e-twinning to document work, to contact students in both schools, to develop a flashcard glossary, to process a film and materials for the “Package” and taking part in a working campus organized by the coordinating school showed how to use IT programs to develop texts (Publisher) , to prepare the presentation of results (PREZI), to do film processing, which increased the ability to use ICT tools among students and teachers. The above activities and the organization of two conferences going beyond the communities of both schools, integrated the participants and showed that everyone is needed: Ukrainian friends in Poland were translators and mediators during the lecture, and students from Romania, Poland and Africa learning in Italy were living proof that persevering work on oneself ensures school success. In addition, they have increased the prestige of both schools as institutions open to inclusive education and forming a community of culture. The teachers involved in the project tried to work out methods of pedagogical work in multinational groups, published their experiences in the book No worries! and in the Teacher’s Package, including comments on student migration, interviews with people with experience in cross-border cooperation, information about Ukrainian culture and work with a student from Ukraine, documents developed in Italy, proposals for Italian lesson scenarios for second generation migrants (a new phenomenon observed at Italian schools) a sample from the catalog of good gestures. We are trying to disseminate the results of our work among teachers of Zamość schools, in the Department of Education, among translators, in the municipality of Ciro ‘, in PRO LOCO in Ciro’, in other schools of the province of Crotone. Thanks to signing a letter about further cooperation between schools and a letter of intent on partnership between the municipalities by the Vice-Mayor of Zamość and the Mayor of Ciro’ at the final SME we hope that the ideas of the project will continue to develop.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 89190 Eur

Project Coordinator

III Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. C.K.Norwida & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Istituto Omnicomprensivo “L. Lilio” Cirò