Don’t be my bully, be my peer Erasmus Project

Project Title

Don’t be my bully, be my peer

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

Bullying is a repetitive form of aggression which is directed to the student without a reason and is included a power imbalance between a bully and a victim. (Sanders 2004, Olweus 2005)Peer bullying is a personal, educational and social problem that must be taken seriously by families, educators, and government agencies.In this project, we are four partner countries (Hungary, Turkey, Portugal, Romania). While establishing our partnership, we used eTwinnning sharing platform and Erasmus + Facebook pages online. We chose schools that have information about our project topic, have problems in this area and have worked locally and are highly motivated.While doing this, we used online communication methods such as e-mail, Messenger, Facebook, Whatsapp.In our strategic plan -SWOT analysis at our schools, we found that “interfering with peer bullying” is one of our weaknesses as four partner schools. Therefore, in order to create awareness, prevent peer bullying and reduce early school dropout; we started our project as an eTwinning project which is a collaborative platform and we decided to transform this into an Erasmus Plus project in the form of a strategic partnership between schools.The topics of our project, planned for 24 months are Physical Type of Peer Bullying and KIVA program, Social bullying type of Peer Bullying- Animation With Interviews, Verbal Bullying and The effect of Culture on Verbal Bullying-Creating a Story and Cyberbullying.The methodology to be used in all of our application activities in our mobility is team building and teamwork, best practice case studies, multimedia and web resources, project-based work, brainstorming and focus group work.
We aim to increase the responsibility skills of our students through student-centred activities, to enable them to use research and solution-oriented thinking skills that support group work and to increase their sensitivity about peer bullying. They will learn how to deal with stress and know how to behave when faced with any form of peer bullying, have a common awareness of peer bullying, anxiety levels will drop, and the graph of success will rise. With our project, through the activities in and out of the school, the social skills of our students will be increased and the integration of these skills into learning processes will be ensured. Our project will increase the ratio of teachers’ digital skills, they will learn the methods and techniques that can be applied in the detection of peer bullying and the appropriate ways of cooperation with the parents in terms of peer bullying. We will minimize the number of peer bullying in order to achieve our inclusive education goals in our strategic plans, and thus change the vision of our schools.
All of us as partners will share the experiences we have obtained as a cross-curriculum way and transfer all these to different branches in our schools. We will present the results based on new methods, the knowledge of the project, our cross-curricular practices and pedagogical documents. We do not want to finish the cooperation at the end of the two-year period. We hope to continue collaborating and develop more initiatives and ideas for future partnerships. The sustainability of our project will depend on all stakeholders in or outside the project. So we will experience the advantages of new methods with both our teachers and students and will insist on their use. Common school websites, social media accounts will be created and updated every month, we will report the approval of our project and the progress of it through them. Our activities and project results will be available to everyone, and our work will be published on our website, our Facebook page and the e-book we will create. Results, experiences and products will be expanded in exhibitions and via some presentations in participating organizations for students, teachers and parents. All the work done (interview, video, word clouds) will be shared on the eTwinning project page. Photos of all the works will be published on this platform. This will allow the student to have more time to make the necessary preparations before our project, to chat online ‘at home’, to explain all the new experiences and to answer some questions, and to get the student an instant impression of our project work.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 120120 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zsámbéki Zichy Miklós Általános Iskola & Country: HU

Project Partners

• HAYME ANA KIZ ANADOLU IMAM HATIP LISESI
• Agrupamento de Escolas de São João da Talha
• Liceul Pedagogic Bod Peter