Physical activity as tool of students education enhancement Erasmus Project

Project Title

Physical activity as tool of students education enhancement

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Inclusion – equity; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

CONTEXT
In some countries, sports practice is hardly ever considered an integral part of the school plan, but a sort of “more or less” subject in which you can relax, maybe play and, if necessary, you can do something else. Scientific studies confirm that sport is a very powerful “medicine”, more than ever necessary in the healthy growth of adolescents engaged in studies because it is able to significantly improve their ability to concentrate, the level of attention, self-control. So who does regular sport, even intense, gets better results both at school and in tests that measure intellectual abilities.
Numerous studies also show that physical activity levels tend to be low in Socially Disadvantaged Groups SDGs and that promoting physical activity in such groups can be difficult but important for their enhancement.
Some schools are also challenged by poor student engagement, resulting in stand-downs, absenteeism, and anti-social behavior. Poor engagement leads to poor learning outcomes.
A growing body of evidence indicates that sport is an effective way to engage students, that the values and characteristics of sport can be effectively transferred to classroom learning environments, and that quality PE and sport enhances school performance in other subject areas.
Nevertheless, there is a tendency to see the sport, for some schools, as a nonfundamental or even extra-curricular activity, particularly in the secondary age group.
According to this, there are declining levels of motivation in the teachers and participation of students in sport.
OBJECTIVES
The overall objective of the PHASE ONE project is to strengthen schools’ capacities to design and carry out education-enhancing physical activity initiatives that target students, with special attention to Social Disadvantaged Groups
The project aims also to develop, trial and evaluate approaches to improve educational and social outcomes through sport and the delivery of Physical Education (PE) and sports programs in the schools
The specific project objectives are:
• The promotion of awareness of the importance of sport at school through better integration of PE into the school curricula
• The professional growth of the teachers with specific attention to PE teachers
• The exploitation of sport as a mean to improve the academic performance of all students and promote their social inclusion
• The promotion of the importance of having an active and healthy lifestyle
The objectives will be pursued also through the help of Associated and Collaborating Partners of the project
CORE ACTIVITIES
1. Collection of success stories of students and of best practices at school: for who and how sport and physical activities represented an educational tool.
2. Creation of Guidelines/Toolkits for physical education teachers and teachers to exploit the use of sport at school
3. Implementation of pilot initiatives
4 Organisation of Multiplier/Final Sports Events.
All the achievements and results of the activities 1,2,3 will constitute the innovative outcomes and will represent the intellectual outputs of the project in order to demonstrate the promising effects of the introduction of PHASE ONE inside the involved schools and, in the future, in a wide perspective at regional, national and international level.
PROFILE AND NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS
– teachers, sports coaches, and educators in charge of producing the I.O.s (4 teachers from each Partner School and 2 coaches/educators from each Partner Organisation for a total of 16 teachers and 8 coaches/educators);
– teachers and students (about 600, both of the schools already in the partnership and to be associated, aged 10-15) participating in the pilot initiatives;
– 96 students/young people + 24 accompanying persons for the brief mobility action
– other participants to the 4 Multiplier Events
MAIN CONCRETE RESULTS
I.O.1 Success stories of students, Best practices in schools: how sport helps! (2 Collections)
I.O.2 Towards a PHASE ONE for PE classes (Guideline for PE teachers)
I.O.3 PHASE ONE: Be Smart through Sport (Guideline for Teachers of all subjects)
IMPACT
Local-level
.the exploitation of sports activities as a mean to improve the academic performance of all students and promote their social inclusion
.the professional growth of the teachers with specific attention to PE teachers
Regional / national level
.the awareness that a change in the quality of PE classes is an improvement of the whole Educational system
European level
.a new campaign of sensitization for the European citizens regarding the benefits that PE can bring inside the schools and sport, in general, can bring at Educational and social levels.
METHODOLOGY
The production of these I.O. will be the result of a combination of competences of diverse subjects teachers, sports professionals, and Youth Educators.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 169016 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zespół Szkół Centrum Kształcenia Rolniczego im. Stanisława Staszica w Swarożynie & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas de São João da Talha
• Iskitler Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
• Uczniowski Klub Sportowy Conrad
• EDU lab
• I.C. 5 IOVINO SCOTELLARO
• Rightchallenge – Associação
• GENC GIRISIM EGITIM GENCLIK VE SPOR KULÜBÜ DERNEGI