STRONGER SCHOOLS WITH 21st CENTURY SKILLS Erasmus Project

Project Title

STRONGER SCHOOLS WITH 21st CENTURY SKILLS

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: Creativity and culture; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

In the EU 2020 Strategy Document; The importance of investing in the development of education and human resources in the 21st century, which is defined as the information age with the scientific and technological advances and revolutionary transformations in information and communication technologies, has been emphasized for economic and social development. In the 21st century that created its own language, when you don’t speak this language, lessons for students cannot go beyond being seen as a long and monologue. If we can get students to acquire 21st century skills, our children will be able to perform professions that do not already exist. For the acquisition of 21st century skills our project team has sent the problem areas and solution proposals to the project partners via the School Gateway and e Twinning platforms.When the forms are evaluated, common problems in our schools in our project;

-Monotonous processing of lessons, permanence of learning, difficulty in ensuring continuity
-Ignoring individual differences in students’ interests and abilities,
-Insufficiency in students’ creativity, critical thinking, problem solving skills,
-Lack of students and teachers on digital literacy-media literacy have been identified as a need.

Good practices for these problems in our project partner schools have been determined with the information forms we sent to our partners;

1- ITALY: Good practices for learning to learn and access information in the information age
2- LATVIA: Skills to facilitate students’ adaptation to the service sector within the scope of Lifelong Learning
3-TURKEY-MERSİN: Creative problem solving skills and design-oriented thinking practices,
4-CROATIA: Systematic programs for teaching life skills
5-BULGARIA: 21st century Technology Education- Good practices in Robotic Coding
6-TURKEY-UŞAK: Carries out the project of “Use of Conscious Technology for the Future” and will contribute to the project on Media and Digital Literacy.

These countries will contribute to the project with these practises. Our project is constructed about adapting to the changes with 21st century skills in a rapidly changing and developing world.
With this project, we aim to increase motivation for attendance to school (attitude scale), to decrease in the number of absentee days (attendance follow up system data), to increase our teachers’ skills by developing and sharing good practices

Our Project is constructed on the basis of developing 21st skills of teachers and gaining these skills to the students. Our project targets:

*Within the scope of increasing teacher competencies, which is our priority in the project; our teachers’,

-İncrease teacher competencies in ensuring the permanence and continuity of learning and provide students’ participation actively in lessons.
-Develop students’ collaboration and living together skills
-İncrease teacher competencies to improve students’ creativity, critical thinking, acting in harmony with others, problem solving skills
-Prepare education plans for development of students and teachers on digital literacy-media literacy
-Qualifications of teachers working in classrooms with students with different interests, abilities and skills will increase according to the European norms and criteria, their status, morale and professionalism

* To prevent early school dropout, which is among our priorities;

With the activities to be carried out during the project;

-Decrease the absenteeism rate of our students by 5% in the first year and 10% in the second year by increasing the motivation of learning (attendancefollow up system data) with effective learning methods to be carried out at school.
-Reduce the rate of early school leaving to 10% with happy teacher-happy students by creating a positive school climate with 21st-century basic skills and equipped teachers with the activities to be done during the project process;
-In-Class Skills Development Activity Book will be created for our teachers to develop students’
-Decrease early school leaving rate below 10% with happy teacher-happy students by creating a positive school climate with teachers and students equipped with 21st century basic skills
-Early school drop-out rates will decrease with improvements on positive attitude towards the students whose psychosocial development is supported by ‘Strategy and Mind Games’
-With EARLY WARNING ALARM Activity : With this forerunner application, students who experience a sudden decrease in course success will be identified and necessary guidance and assistance will be provided for them. By providing individual and group counseling services on issues such as Efficient Studying, Exam Anxiety, etc., students’ course success will be increased and early school leaving will be prevented by improving their motivation about the school.

It will provide contribution to smart growth in the EU 2020 strategic targets and reduction of early school leaving to 10%

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 164640 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto Comprensivo “Madre Claudia Russo-Solimena” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• 32 SU s izuchavane na chuzhdi ezici “Sv.Kliment Ohridski”
• Osnovna skola Frana Galovica
• Avgan Ortaokulu
• Kale Ortaokulu
• Brocenu vidusskola