Fearless Child Makes A Cheerful Child Erasmus Project

Project Title

Fearless Child Makes A Cheerful Child

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: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Pedagogy and didactics; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The aim of the Project, is making preschool education more attractive and appealing; sharing the practices which were done in a country basis to overcome school phobia; developing new methods; sharing ideas about the techniques that were used; minimizing the problems of preschool adaptation; strenghthening the cooperation of school and parents; the improvement of early age children socialization and integration at instutional development; creating a new adaptation methodology to early age children.

Romania has joined the Project with 14 teachers, 1 principal, 201 children, 95 parents, actively involved (but all of them were involved through their children (402) ); France has joined the Project with 8 teachers, 1 principal, 1 school psychologist, 7 assistants, 10 parents, 200 pupils; Bulgaria has joined the Project with 13 teachers, 1 principal 50 parents, 50 pupils, Croatia has joined the Project with 8 teachers, 1 pedagogue, 1 principal, 100children, 15 parents, actively involved (but all of them were involved through their children(200) ), Turkey has joined the Project with 55 pupils, 55 parents, 1 principal, 7 teachers.

In cooperation, the main coordinator Turkey, has prepared the official Project Website and Facebook group; France has created E-Twinning platforms and a Blog about the traditional games of all participating countries; Croatia has created a booklet and written an e-book with project activities and outputs; also has created the Twitter profile; Romania has prepared a brochure for Instagram profile and printed traditional game CDs; Bulgaria has created the Youtube channel; at the end of project the Bulgaria has organized an project exhibition and introduced the project outputs.

Our project has reached its targets by creating the expected effect. Innovations have been attended to preschool education; many new techniques to overcome the fear of school have been discovered; new country education systems (similarities, differences) were examined. The educators who participated in the project had the opportunity to see different cultures and to have a chance to study different preschool education systems and have gained new experiences. Beautiful ties have been developed in the name of friendship among nations. The experience of kindergarten teachers has increased. Making such a project for the first time in our school has created awareness of the international project in the school teachers and students. As the language of the project agreement is English, participants’ language proficiency and awareness of this language learning has increased. The project has had a positive impact on the ability of the project to use the Information Technology Tools since most of the materials and activities carried out throughout the project have been used in computers. The project participants who have different cultures and educational systems have developed new perspectives and visions. Due to the fact that it is the first project in the sense of preschool in our district, it has created a source of enthusiasm for new projects for preschool teachers thanks to disseminations and dissemination materials.

Project Website

http://fma3c.com

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 72125 Eur

Project Coordinator

Sadi Turgutlu Ortaokulu & Country: TR

Project Partners

• ODZ 12 “Radost”
• Gradinita cu Program Prelungit nr 37 Braila
• Rigas pirmskolas izglitibas iestade Pucite
• Djecji vrtic Iskrica
• ECOLE MATERNELLEJEAN JAURES