Play and Talk with Me Erasmus Project

Project Title

Play and Talk with Me

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: Pedagogy and didactics; Early childhood education and care; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

The Project “ Play and Talk with Me”, corresponding to Program ERASMUS+, key activity 2 Section / Strategic Partnerships supporting the exchange of good practices: School Exchange Partnerships/ deals with cooperation in exchange of techniques, strategies, good practices in early language education. The realization of young people nowadays depends mainly on the knowledge of foreign languages. The problem this project addresses is of great importance not only in partner countries but also in many others outside the partnership as it affects thousands of pupils, their teachers and families, support staff – not only academically but also in emotional, behavioural and social aspects. The capacity of CSPD does not allow the achievement of the goals set in the project, which necessitated the creation of this consortium. The consortium is made up of four European organisation from Bulgaria, Spain, Finland, Hungary and Turkey . The project partners are equipped with the necessary skills, experience and competence to achieve the highest level of the project objective. This project will introduce the innovative approach in education, will improve the quality of teaching the English language; different forms and methods of teaching, using different technologies, would be examined, both in the kindergarten and in the first grade. The Project has two main lines: the first is oriented towards the teachers, the seconds towards the children 5-7 years, also bilingual and minority children. The leading method for achieving this goal is the suggestopedia and the other methods are based on the creative and free-thinking of children in English and system by which they are taught: “Play and talk with Echo” follows the ideology “easy and simple” – learning through fun and action. Supporting the two main lines, we shall realize our first priority – to give the children the opportunity of qualified, innovative and creative education, which would be realized not within the limits of our educational system only but a multicultural directed one, realized through “ Live connections” amongst the foreign language schools of the party countries. All activities will be aimed at exchanging experience between institutions with the same focus as ours for better multicultural cooperation.
All the activities are directed towards the necessities of the teachers and the students. In the process of teaching and exchanging experience, with colleagues from other European countries, the teachers will upgrade their professional qualification, acquire innovating methodology, develop their creativity, and will improve their personal competence, which will result in initiating of ways and instruments of teaching. The whole will result in a rise of the quality of the education. The project would be realized within a period of 24 months. Teachers who have participated in mobility will train the other teachers in order to share the experience they have gained. And they will make an open pedagogical situation in which they will incorporate elements of new knowledge. Parental involvement will increase students’ interest and motivation to learn English. The activities envisaged and the products that will be created as a result will contribute to enriching the creative experience and creativity of teachers in English, will improve their communication with colleagues from different countries, will stimulate free teacher’s thinking towards an innovative learning process. The expecting result is:
– Review and analysis of good European practices related to early language learning as suggestopedia in English, teaching methods of bilingual children, development of multiple intelligence through English in early age;
– Sharing and implementing them in the lessons;
– Assess the needs of educational institutions to support early language learning’;
– Development of didactic materials for practical work and involvement of a number early language learning activities and organization and holding of sports and English competitions and holidays as Christmas celebrations “Jingle Bells”;
– Testing of the experience gained;
– Involve teachers in training courses and project activities, in general, the annual plan of the educational institution;
– Dissemination of results, information on activities carried out and events on websites, social networks and local media;
Information campaign, including preparation of flyers with information promoting the project, notebooks, pens with the logo of the project and other promotional materials for the participants and invited to the organized events, prizes for the children, participants in the planned concerts and events;
The materials developed within the partnership will be in partner languages and English, making them accessible to a much wider audience beyond the partner countries, which will greatly increase the impact of project result.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 0 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centar za podkrepa na lichnostnoto razvitie Burgas & Country: BG

Project Partners

• VALENCIA CULINARY CENTER S.L.
• Learning for Integration ry
• Selçuklu Ortaokulu