Story Telling is an ART Erasmus Project

Project Title

Story Telling is an ART

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 2020

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

CONTEXT
Children, starting from small ages, have a genuine predilection for stories. Stories generate that magical realm and the sense of wonder about the world where every child can pace in order to unfold mysteries and miracles, to differentiate the good from the bad and then to get precious life lessons, to absorb universal forms that tell them about the consequences of their actions, teach about themselves and the nearby world and nevertheless that make them embrace a positive social behavior model. Storytelling is a distinctive method for children to cultivate comprehension, admiration and gratitude for other cultures and to encourage constructive attitudes for people with different origins, races and religions.
The project consortium have partnered up to build the setting for their pupils in order to improve the ability to understand the world that surrounds them through insights into universal life experiences.
OBJECTIVES
O1 to cultivate young learners’ creativity, critical thinking, linguistic, communication and teamwork skills
O2 to project a set of operative storytelling tools and techniques
O3 to increase intercultural awareness, acceptance and respect for cultural diversity
O4 to provide prospects for teachers’ professional progress
O5 to reinforce the European dimension of the curriculum and cross-border mobility in partner schools
NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS
The participants to this project will be a target group of pupils aged 4-11 that are enrolled in pre-primary and primary levels of education. They will represent the essential group on which local activities will be implemented. At partnership level, the estimated number of pupils as direct participants involved in this project will be around 600. They will play an active role in project implementation stage by attending local and virtual activities which will be organized by the school coordinator of the project supported by project team members, the school counselor and the psychologist.
A minimum number of 10 pre-primary and/or primary teachers will form the project team in each school involved in the partnership. They will apply storytelling techniques, methods and tools assimilated during training events on direct participants in their organization. Moreover, teachers from the project team will start up practical workshops for targeted pupils to design multiple storytelling project materials, to invent their own stories, to engage in role-plays and drama activities, to put stories on stage in English so as to improve not only their linguistic skills but also communication abilities, to develop creativity, self-expression and interpersonal skills.
MAIN ACTIVITIES
C1- Storytelling with realia
C2- Dramatized storytelling
C3 – Storytelling Recycled material
C4- Digital storytelling
C5- 3D Story books
C6- Storytelling with pictures and drawings
METHODOLOGY
The methodology applied will consist of creating innovative and personalized storytelling techniques, new teaching tools by applying the information and knowledge gathered during all LTTAs combined with former specialized experience, integrating the new assets in local and international activities with young pupils, and creating a rich assembly of storytelling teaching aids.
RESULTS
The concrete results of the project will be: thematic expositions, story dioramas, the booklet with storytelling activities for pre-primary and primary level, worksheets, templates, storytelling card kits, digital stories, project story calendar, puppets created by children, exhibitions, project website, twin space, impact and feedback forms, reports, social media page, international conference, certificates.
IMPACT AND LONG-TERM BENEFITS
“Once upon a time, little storytellers” will bring new prospects for qualified development, will reinforce the profile of the teaching occupation among management teams and participants in LTTAs. All these will happen owing to national and international activities which will be carried out throughout the training sessions that everyone will attend and which will create the perfect setting for the exchange of teaching practices, knowledge, tools and methods that will be further transferred in the institutions comprised in the project.
Furthermore, the partnership will bring multidimensional improvements and quality in each school involved, adding diversity to syllabus by means of innovative storytelling techniques and tools applied, completely dependent on interactive learning which will positively impact young learners’ results and equip them with lifelong key skills.
The project is intended to serve as a model of innovative interventions that would produce progress in both teaching and learning areas. All partner organizations will boost project management capability and expertise and will increase visibility and opportunities to extend the international network.

Project Website

https://erasmusplus81.wixsite.com/storytelling-an-art

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 132960 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO L. PIRANDELLO & Country: IT

Project Partners

• 75. YIL MESUT YILMAZ ILKOKULU
• Dr Peter Beron Private Primary School
• Zejtun Primary A
• Siauliu r. Meskuiciu lopselis-darzelis
• Scoala Gimnaziala Mihail Sadoveanu