MODULES AND APPLICATIONS FOR INCREASING SCHOOL SUCCESS OF STUDENTS WITH THE INNOVATIVE DIGITAL SCHOOL MODEL Erasmus Project

Project Title

MODULES AND APPLICATIONS FOR INCREASING SCHOOL SUCCESS OF STUDENTS WITH THE INNOVATIVE DIGITAL SCHOOL MODEL

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 : Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The world has accelerated, information cannot be observed, everything is automatized when the child finalises the school, the profession he studies stop to exist, borders between countries are slowly wipe away and a large global society is resulting where we need to find existence mainly employment. Added to these facts was the biggest challenge of 2020 – the corona crisis. Its effects are difficult to model and estimate, but a strategy focused on the future is needed that takes into account direct operational effects, including secondary and tertiary ones.

The corona crisis also highlighted the importance of lifelong learning for teachers, who had to respond flexibly to the created conditions and find appropriate solutions in the teaching process for the benefit of pupils (e.g. online teaching).

According to Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) 2018 Conceptual Framework, even though teachers are participating in in-service/further training, they still feel like they need more training in the field of those skills and competencies for education required for 21st century, such as teaching of cross-curricular skills, using of ICT teaching and teaching in multicultural environment or multilingual settings.

In each partner country, teachers use online teaching tools to different degrees and at different levels. In addition to the lack of digital competences of teachers, the partnership identified the most common problems: different access to the Internet, different ability to manage online communication, different technical and human barriers to using computer and online space at a specific time, different motivation, different family background (sense of security), family climate, age-appropriate communication, missing or harmful interaction of children in peer groups, school as a space for children to escape from problems in the family, underestimation of home education by parents.

The individual school systems in the European countries and also in Turkey are different, so the great importance has international cooperation of actors from different sectors, exchange of experiences, finding examples of good practice in the current constantly changing period in the field of online pedagogical methods. At the same time, it is important to deal with the exchange of experiences in the field of solving problems arising as a result of the corona crisis.

Main objectives:
– Support and development of cross-sectoral international cooperation among universities, schools and counseling and educational services for adults, creation of virtual partner networks
– Developing teachers’ digital competencies in accordance with the requirements of today’s constantly changing period
– Increase the use of digital technology in primary schools with adequate teaching and learning materials to be able to improve students’ learning potentials.
– Support lifelong learning of teachers

In order to reach the objectives above, partners will
– exchange of good practices and experiences from partner countries and from EU
– organize 6 DIGI-SCHOOL workshops in partner countries with relevant stakeholders in order to share collected good experiences from the international environment
– organize 6 DIGI-SCHOOL trainings to increase digital skills of teachers
– create a communication platform for networking and exchange of good practices
– create DIGI-SCHOOL E-Brochure – collection of 26 best practices from EU and Turkey
– realize dissemination activities in all partner countries via social networks, leaflets, newsletters

Target groups of the project

Direct target groups:

– Teachers of primary schools, lecturers, professors, mentors, tutors

Indirect target groups:

– Universities
– Primary and secondary schools
– Pupils/Students
– Parents of pupils
– Training institutions who providing training for teachers
– Parents
– Consulting organisations in the field of school education
– Partner organizations
– Professional organisations for teachers, umbrella organisations

The project involves 7 partners; 3 universities, 1 non-profit association and 1 primary school from Turkey; 1 primary school from the UK and 1 association from Slovakia. Partners were selected with respect to their experience, types of organization, excellence of the staff and main working field.
Partners will hold project meetings 5 times in 4 partner countries.

Partners will implement an effective dissemination strategy from start to end with all types of dissemination instruments. So as to ensure the long-term efficiency of the project, partners will involve the community as much as possible to project events, involve local government institutions, schools and umbrella organisations in the project process, institutionalize communication platform, and continue running it even after the project and create innovative project products.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 100815 Eur

Project Coordinator

Necmettin Erbakan Üniversitesi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• ACHIEVEMENT FOR ALL (3AS) LTD
• Dezavantajli Gruplari Anlama ve Sosyal Destek Dernegi (DEGDER)
• Mecidiye Ilkokulu
• UNIVERZA V MARIBORU
• Düzce University
• Spolupracou pre lepsiu buducnost – Velky Meder
• IZMIR BAKIRCAY UNIVERSITESI