The meeting was organised and run online by Liceum Tehnoliogic Special in Iasi.

Over 100 participants (teachers and students) from Poland, Italy, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey took part in the event.

The first day

The students and teachers could meet new people thanks to the ice breaker at the beginning of the meeting. Everyone could say what colour they would like to be and why. It was a good opportunity to learn something about the participants.

Later, Theodor Sirbuletu- a Romanian teacher- gave a speech about “The ability to work under pressure”. He talked about stress and how to deal with it and also how important inclusion is.

Romanian students presented a sign language. They translated a song “We are the children” by Michael Jackson into an American and Romanian sign language. Next they shared the song with everyone to give them a chance to practise the sign language for Friday.

Thanks to Bahar- a teacher from Turky- we could all meet a blind English teacher from Turkey who told us about her life and difficulties she had to overcome in her life when the illness affected her.

Romanian students prepared a presentation about Count Dracula and thanks to that we could enjoy a virtual journey in Romanian mountains and her beautiful castles.

“The ducks and the hunters” was a game that was played and recorded by Romanian students to show the participants how to spend time outside and to share the Romanian games.

At the and if the meeting students from Livorno, Italy talked about themselves presenting photos of themselves at present and in the future.

The second day

The meeting began with online game- a quiz about friendship. All the participants could learn what real friendship means.

Dana Raducanescu- a Romanian teacher gave a very informative speech titled: “Drama Techniques at Schools”. She presented positive aspects of using drama techniques during different classes. We could watch Romanian students performing different drama techniques on the videos they prepared for the meeting. The audience could check if they were able to understand the scenes presented by mime artist and musicians.

Finally the students from Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey and Sassari, Italy presented their photos depicting them now and in the future. They also introduced themselves in English.

The third day

Today we could learn about the Palace of Culture in Iasi and its history thanks to a virtual trip organised by the Romanian teacher Monica.

All the participants learned how to sign a song by Michael Jackson “We are the children”. Romanian students presented the sign language which was then repeated by the watching audience. Everyone had a lot of fun and in the end was able to use the international sign language to translate the chorus of the song.

In the second part of the meeting the Romanian teachers presented videos of the lessons: about the optimism and pessimism, individual lesson, experimental theatre lesson-to show students how to hear the wind, see the sun (students were imitating the sounds using gestures. Thanks to those videos we could learn what the techniques of teaching children with special needs are.

The fourth day

On Monday we could work together on creating messages for the next generation, which we could later translate into Braille alphabet after a short workshop-video on how the letters are encoded into Braille. A common document was created with different messages created by students and teachers.

Later students from different schools presented short films about the school life. Those were different film productions showing students’ creativity but it appeared that we share the same problems during teaching and learning at our schools.

Presenting traditional recipes from partner countries was the last activity of the day. Students prepared Power Point Presentations as well as short videos presenting traditional dishes from their countries and regions. Students turned out to be really talented not ony in cooking but also in playing traditional instruments.

The fifth day

The last day of the Romanian meeting brought us more nice opportunities to learn about the people participating in the meeting. Students could talk a bit about their national heroes and created a common mind map with all the heroes from their countries.

Later students and teachers talked about International Labour Day and how it is celebrated in the project countries. It occurred that 1st May is a day off in all of the project countries and the presentations were a great history lesson for all the students.

The discussion about May celebrations and learning about pottery workshop as a way of working with students with special needs was the last activity of the day.

Photos For fifth virtual meeting in Iasi Romania

Photos of the online activities

Programme for the virtual Mob

Meeting plan ROMÂNIA online.docx (1) (1) (1) (1).pdf

Fifth virtual meeting report

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