Researching Innovation in Special Needs Erasmus Project

Project Title

Researching Innovation in Special Needs

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Disabilities – special needs

Project Summary

In the context of the Erasmus Plus Project, k219, Turkey, Poland, Bulgaria and Spain worked according to a monthly calendar of activities on a project related to students with special educational needs, from 2016 to 2018. All the partners were really competent people and reliable.
As a group, we were very motivated and interested in our project. Two years, they have given rise to methodological, teaching and evaluation practices of great importance. Specifically, the first stages of the project have been aimed at a first approach to the knowledge of the different partner countries with the implementation of relationships: creation of logos, exchange of letters in English among students, creation Erasmus Corner and Erasmus Team, presentation of the different educational systems and schools, creation of the website, e-mail relations between the teachers of the association, project creation in e-twinning … The first meeting was held in Marki, Poland, where it was possible to carry out a process of exchange of experiences on educational management, process evaluation tools and detailed planning of all future activities based on the analysis of the project’s objectives.
We participated in four transnational meetings, which took place in the four partner schools. In each one of them, the same work scheme was carried out: the essential results of the project were presented and evaluated and the main points for our future work were fixed.
The general objective of this project was to create an eternal and international friendship throughout the world and share national and traditional values, working on a common theme, such as students with special educational needs and their inclusion in our educational system.
The main points of our work were:
• Make several materials to work with these students and display them (for example, book of traditional recipes, book of stories, calendar, newspaper, photo album, album of drawings, power point presentations, skype conferences, work materials, legislative reports … ).
• Improve communication in the foreign language (students and teachers discussed culture and daily life with other countries to compare their lives and improve their personality skills and had the opportunity to visit other countries, transmitting to their students the life experiences…
• Looking at the topic “Inclusion of students with special educational needs” from a cultural, historical and friendly perspective (in our country, these students play an important role in the personality of our children.) They love each other and children learn many things from them because we have a lot of knowledge and experiences to share, through the activities of the Project.
• Decreasing segregation among students in schools and increasing communication between them (students learned the songs, games, learning strategies, stories and, had the opportunity to share and compare those values ​​with other countries).
To achieve those goals, we share ideas, approaches, methods, as well as a variety of activities. Students, teachers, parents participated in these activities … In addition to the transnational meetings, there were also email contacts between the teachers of the participating schools. This project gave us the opportunity to exchange experiences and teaching knowledge, develop methods that meet our needs and test and put into practice the most effective organizational and pedagogical approaches with our students with special educational needs. In addition, it helped to improve the quality and reinforce the European dimension of school education by supporting the use of foreign languages ​​spoken in European countries, promoting equal opportunities in all schools and improving knowledge of different cultures.
The achievements of the project are having an importan influence in the teaching staff of the school and the students, which is one of the main objectives that we expected from it, either in the improvement in working with students with special educational needs such as in the process of learning and assessment of these students by the entire educational community.
Our main benefit is to have learned new methods in the teaching-learning process of these students and to exchange our way of working with other European countries and thus enrich each other.
Another of the main benefits of our project, apart from giving an international vision to the school, is to open it to the entire educational community, to make known teaching practices, characteristics and needs of students …

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 54030 Eur

Project Coordinator

CEIP Carmelo Cortés & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Detska Gradina 79
• Sehit Jandarma Tegmen Cengiz Evranos Ortaokulu
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 3 im. Pomnik Zwyciestwa 1920 roku