EMPOWERING SOCIAL SKILLS OF GIFTED STUDENTS BY INCLUSIVE EDUCATION Erasmus Project

Project Title

EMPOWERING SOCIAL SKILLS OF GIFTED STUDENTS BY INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

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: Social dialogue; Disabilities – special needs; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

As a result of the literature review and research conducted with our strategic partners, under the coordination of Gaziantep University, it was determined that gifted children have problems in adapting to the social environment in European countries as well as in our country. It is observed that gifted students, who are distinguished from others in terms of their cognitive abilities, turn towards friends who are older than them, or make friends with them. Gifted children are experiencing problems; It is observed that the environment is experienced in areas such as expectations, friendship relations, school culture. When the data of the Ministry of National Education Information Systems (MEBBİS) data were examined, it was determined that the number of gifted students in our province constituted 2.42% of the percentile across the country. The “Social Skill Scale”, developed by Gresham & Elliott in America for teachers, families and students, consists of 27 questions. version; It was applied to Şahinbey Science and Art Center students in cooperation with Gaziantep University, Provincial Directorate of National Education and Guidance and Research Center (RAM). Considering the results, the need to strengthen the social skills of the 78% slice emerged, and only 22% of the students were found to be at the expected level.
Our main goal is to examine the education of our gifted students and to strengthen their social skills by examining the best practices in other countries; to explore different aspects of individuals and to provide special education opportunities, to train leading personal, social and entrepreneurial individuals.
As highlighted in the Horizon 2020 Program; The aim of inclusive education is to cover all children who have difficulties in accessing social, cultural, educational, vital activities and opportunities equally with all community members, with or without disabilities, and the right of these children to receive education with other peers. In line with the knowledge and experience we have acquired, we aim to create educational environments at standards that will strengthen the social skills of our gifted students by adopting inclusive education principles.
Our Consortium, consisting of project partner institutes and institutions that work with individuals with special needs and gifted students in their own countries under the coordination of Gaziantep University;
4 academicians from Gaziantep University, 4 Project Coordinator teachers and 2 managers from Gaziantep Provincial Directorate of National Education (4 participants will take part in transnational mobility), 1 manager from Şahinbey Science and Arts Center, 1 teacher, 2 academicians from Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Łodzi,2 educators from Associação Cultural e de solidariedade Social Raquel Lombardi, 2 experts from EUNOIA Associatio and 1 academician from Restorative Justice for All International Institute,It consists of 19 participants in total. All of our participants are people who have worked on inclusive education and education of gifted students, teacher, student, parent education. They have Erasmus + and eTwinning project experiences.
With online and on-site meetings in cooperation with our strategic partners, we aim to reach students, teachers, parents, trainings, seminars, forums and workshops, as well as gifted students at the primary / middle / high school levels and their families, friends and individuals around them.
Web-site and social media channels with scientific publications and project products that we will prepare to ensure the sustainability of our project results and reach to larger audiences, the sustainability of eTwinning and erasmus projects will ensure the impact of the project and will be beneficial for the beneficiaries.
In the execution of the project, our main methodology is to share responsibility according to the expertise areas of all partners and to analyze possible risks in advance and to provide crisis management plan and effective communication.
As a result of the project, accessible scientific publication articles and online sustainable resources, as well as the proposal report we will provide to education policy makers, are the keystones in achieving our project goals. In the long term of our project, we aim to create a permanent source to guide Education Policy Makers in the development of social skills of gifted students through inclusive education, to strengthen the social skills of our gifted students. At the same time, all project partner countries will prepare a draft program by adapting the reports they generate from the project outputs to their socio-cultural structures.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 97970 Eur

Project Coordinator

GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Sahinbey Belediyesi Bilim ve Sanat Merkezi
• Restorative Justice for All International Institute cic
• Associação Cultural e de solidariedade Social Raquel Lombardi
• Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi
• Gaziantep Il Milli Egitim Müdürlügü
• EUNOIA