Conflict ResolUtion for better ScHool management Erasmus Project

Project Title

Conflict ResolUtion for better ScHool management

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Conflicts are related to any human activity, for this reason it is very important to know how to cope with it as the conflict can be something that makes us grow as human beings. This project will give their participants tools to deal with conflicts. Conflicts will be related to different common activities.
Improving the environment coexistence is one of the main objectives of each school and improving it will affect directly to any field of our school communities. Learning how to cope with conflicts starts from the school but it will last forever. We truly think that the students need tools to work collaboratively, with respect to the others, with responsibility and with empathy in order to resolve any conflict they can have in their lives.
The main objective of this project is to tackle early school leaving and fighting school failure by developing transversal and basic skills through innovative methodologies. These methodologies help students to cope with conflicts and they increase their motivation. Furthermore, the methodologies proposed will help students with fewer conditions and lower basic skills get support from leading students, as far as this project works with methodologies as peer-to-peer mediation. This project reflects on daily life problems of students, such as conflicts on the Internet, conflicts through collaborative work or in the work place.
This project has a partnership of five schools. Each partner has a different educational reality. The five schools involved on this project have coexistence problems. Similar problems are solved in different ways and these solutions must be shared to enrich our schools. Furthermore, each school has its own experience in solving conflicts that may be new conflicts in the other schools so, if we share these experiences with others, we will facilitate school work and strengthen professional teaching competences.
Teachers from each school live conflicts daily and these situations make our work tougher. Getting to know different possible solutions a conflict has is achieved by learning how to work collaboratively with the rest of the colleagues of our schools; developing long life learning activities; and sharing different conflict resolution strategies with other schools.
To reach our objectives, the partnership has worked around the next topics, which are related to each school background:
• People from different cultures living together: mutual enrichment and solving conflicts.
• Peer-to-peer mediation.
• Correct uses of Social Networks: how to cope with conflicts in the Internet.
• Learn how to work collaboratively: Project method.
• Collaborative work in the work place. Entrepreneurship training and conflicts.
The activities proposed during these two years are focused on teachers and students. Teachers have participated in different workshops in order to experience the new methodologies proposed in the different schools which are already using them. Students have been active participants in all the process as far as they have worked on different conflict resolution. Students need to experience in different ways coexistence problems and learn the solutions they have. In general, proposed activities are: two transnational meetings, where teachers have designed the general ideas, the Quality Plan and the Sustainability Plan, teachers have made framework protocols during the project to insert the new ideas in their own schools. All these experiences have been possible because of exchanges of students and joints of staff events, but there have also been activities carried out by each school in order to prepare all these exchanges. These activities have been in English and they have been carried out through different ICT tools. They have analysed the situation of each school around all the topics treated.
The methodology has been based on the collaborative work. Each partner has had its own main duty and in each school there have been different responsibilities for each member of the work team. There has been a general coordinator of the project in each school who has been helped by colleagues with different responsibilities (Quality, ICT, Communication, Europass and Budget).
The general results of this project have beeen the introduction of new methodologies, developing new framework protocols in these schools and the creation of OER by our students.
To sum up, the impact has improved the school environment, increased the motivation of the participants, strengthened the relations with local institutions, increased the effective introduction of ICT, encouraged to learn foreign languages and introduced the proper use of Europass.
Once the project has finished, the benefits of this project will remain sustainable. The protocols will be used in each school and could be introduced in other schools, the OER will be accessible on the Internet and the partnership will keep on working through other transnational projects.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 134514 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES Afonso X O Sabio & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas Professor Paula Nogueira
• Kelmes Jono Graiciuno gimnazija
• KARTAL SEHIT SALIH ALISKAN MESLEKI VE TEKNIK ANADOLU LISESI
• IIS “Stendhal”