No Place Like School Erasmus Project

Project Title

No Place Like School

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Access for disadvantaged; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

Our project presents a multifaceted approach for preventing early school leaving and increasing school engagement under the social emotional learning skills of children. In cooperation with Poland, Italia, Norway, Spain, Greece and Turkey, strategic partnerships will be established and exchange of good practices will be provided for enhancing school engagement.
Considering the fact that, every extra year of children’s education increases their financial gain of adulthood nearly 10% and decreases their country’s poverty rate nearly 9% (UNICEF, 2016). Active participation enables students’ attendence, academic development, also personality development and self actualization and all of these reminds us the concept of school engagement. In this context, our project’s main purposes are,
1) Tackling early school leaving
1.1) Enhancing school engagement for tackling early school leaving
1.1.1) Strengthening SEL skills (problem solving, coping with stress, communication and self-esteem enhancing skills)
1.1.2) Supporting students’ participation of extra curricular activities
1.1.3) Developing basic skills, key competencies and supporting academic development
1.1.4) Foreign language teaching and learning for enhancing school engagement
2) Access to disadvantages and support their participation of curriculum
3) Building capacity for organisation and recognition of learning periods abroad and developing cross-border collaboration
Participants of the project are 1000 students who are in 10-14 years, 80 teacher and 200 parents from six different countries.
Activities, mobility and dissemination plans will be arranged for relevant skills of students regarding project’s purposes.
Integrated into mobilities,
-Tackling peer victimization as a risk factor for early school leaving
-Supporting participation of students’ with disadvantage and exchange of good practices
-Developing SEL skills via psycho-education programs and turn into a booklet with multilingual approach, peer mediation and goal setting guidance activities
-Developing digital competency via STEM activities and ICT tools (logo, e-book and mobile game design)
-Extra curricular activities such drama, sport, art, dance, music, traditional arts, composing a multilingual song about school engagement and uploading video, international folk dancing team demonstration
-Developing foreign language skills via “My Penpal” activity
Methodology of these activities will be in a wide variety such direct instruction, discussion, brain-storm, demonstration, drama, role-playing, observation, trip, exhibition, case study, simulation.
Integrated into dissemination activities,
Twinspace, Facebook, Instagram, Podcast and Youtube pages which will open in the name of project, cooperation with local authorities like District Directorate of National Education of Keçiören and Counseling and Research Center of Keçiören, organizing seminars for nearby schools, turning the LTT activities into “online” or “on-site” activities via eTwinning, by this way reaching more school and participants.
The desired effects on the basis of the students will be provided by activities that will be carried out both internationally and within the school. In this context, entrepreneurship, social skills, cultural awareness and representation and foreign language skills will be developed from key competencies of the students who will take part in the project activities for international student exchanges in both guest and host positions. In addition, it is planned to achieve the goal of social inclusion from EU Horizontal priorities by ensuring maximum participation of disadvantaged students in both intra-school project activities and international mobility. This target will be achieved through the observation of practices involving disadvantaged students during mobilities and integration into the educational processes of our school, too. Within the project, it is planned to develop digital skills from key competencies via mobile game design, e-book design, logo design, 3D robotic coding course, “Smart Home Project” activities and to develop students’ ability to work in teams during these activities. With the “I am Learning Science with My Parents” program to be held in our school, it is planned to reduce the failure rates under 15% in the 15-year-old age group in reading, mathematics and science which is in the European Basic Criteria.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 195440 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gulhane Ortaokulu & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Szkola Podstawowa Gminy Sieradz im Jana Pawla II
• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO PLINIO IL VECCHIO
• Levanger Ungdomsskole
• C.E.I.P. JUAN PEREZ VILLAAMIL
• Gymnasio L.T. Kallitheas Elassonas