READ ALOUD RISE EUROPE Erasmus Project

Project Title

READ ALOUD RISE EUROPE

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

The project “READ ALOUD RISE EUROPE” (R.A.R.E.) has been coordinated by Turkey with the partner high schools in Poland,Italy,Germany and Hungary.The project includes read aloud activities by the students for;the nursery children ,the primary school children,the old,the disabled,their friends, the parents as well as for their own personal development and about future plans, universities, departments, different jobs or career planning,the nature and environment besides the global newspapers and magazines.The participants have read aloud in different places and genres such as;poems,short stories,novels,tales and legends and about various topics such as; health,career planning/worldwide universities,different jobs,personal development ,technology-ICT skills,environment, animals and plants,global warming,culture and study skills.
Apart from all these read aloud activities,basicly,we have focused on 16 well-known and pedagogically suitable world classic books in both English and our mother tongues as well as brochures and booklets.In the first project meeting,we added one famous book from each partner country to get to know our literature works better. Apart from these internationally known books,we have created a set of original adventure books of our chief character and mascot “Boukey” that makes the project alive.Now,we have a set of “original” outcome that will be beneficial for anyone in 6 different languages;English,Turkish,Polish,German,Italian and Hungarian which is put on the project web site and twinspace and can be reached by anyone.
The objectives of the project are;developing basic and transversal skills of the students such as reading,writing,speaking and listening in language and literature,thus helping them achieve more success,improving digital skills and multilingualism in literature,using innovative and student-centred activities,developing appropriate assessment and certification methods, based on learning outcomes;enhancing ICT uptake in teaching and learning, through their tablets,the digital platforms and learning materials and access to open educational resources (OER),contributing to improving the attainment of teenagers, particularly those at risk of early school leaving and with low level of the four basic skills,encouraging the learning and development of modern foreign languages by both students and staff through creating plenty of opportunities in which they can use their linguistic abilities in meaningful contexts,promoting stronger coherence between different EU and national transparency and recognition tools, so as to ensure that skills and qualifications can be easily recognized across borders; improving the students as a whole with their basic and artistic skills for a higher academic success;enabling the students to realize that there are many different countries in Europe, each with their own culture, traditions, and attributes, but with a common interest of reading aloud books or acting out.
The project have organised five transnational meetings and three teaching learning activities named “Designing Book Covers and Improving Painting Skills” in Italy,”Theatre Week of the Classics-Romeo and Juliet” in Poland and ” The Quiz Show of The Classics” in Turkey in the process.The course in Italy,the theatre play in Poland and the quiz show in Turkey have been the best evaluating outcomes performed by the students.
The products of the project are; a twinspace page,a web-site,a set of five original short stories of” Boukey”,R.A.R.E Magazine 2015 and 2016,some “patchwork” videos of some poems or texts conveying the project message,R.A.R.E. diaries of the students,many book covers,the illustrations of the book series,and paintings for the books,“This is MY Story”Book with the best original stories written by students, e-books,audio books,short plays/dramas or films of the books,brochures on various topics,reading materials for the public on billboards/walls,project corners at schools regularly designed with new materials,school newspapers,Erasmus + Project links at the web-sites of all the schools, competitions, videos,presentations,interviews,seminars and book posters.
By the end of the project activities;the participants institutions have achieved; better competence in foreign language and literature,a higher level of digital competence;greater understanding and responsiveness to social, linguistic,literal and cultural diversity; more active participation in society;more positive attitude towards EU projects and values;better understanding and recognition of skills linked to the teaching skills and systems in education,across countries,opportunities for professional and personal development.
By keeping our web site and project corners working; we aim to carry out the project activities and encourage the schools and the public continue reading besides contributing everyone who wants to be more literate,aware,successful and European.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 121910 Eur

Project Coordinator

GAZIPASA MERKEZ ANADOLU LISESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Szekszárdi I. Béla Gimnázium, Kollégium és Általános Iskola
• Liceo Statale A. Serpieri
• Zespol Szkol Miejskich nr 1 w Grajewie
• Privatgymnasium Dr. Florian Überreiter – ein Unternehmen der Münchner Schulstiftung Ernst v. Borries –