Erasmus+: Comenius programme (KA 2) Inter-school Strategic partnership project
„We are the world, we are the children“
Coordinator
Klaipėdos Gedminų progimnazija, Lithuania
Partners
Osnovna skola Jure Kastelana, Croatia
PLATON M.E.P.E., Greece
COLEGIUL NATIONAL SPIRU HARET, Romania
Izmir Karşıyaka Ortaokulu, Turkey
Our website: http://wearetheworld.ucoz.com
The 21st century brought a lot of disagreement among generations. Today it is more often considered that children appreciate values absolutely otherwise. Diverse generations see the same things differently as a result of generation gap. The younger people talk about a lack of understanding by adults. The older people reply that the present generation is not responsible and has no wish to act positively. It is a considered opinion that the youth will not be strong enough for challenges and struggle for human values. They have no ideals. The concept of a project – to search for the kindest stories of success how children changed the world in the history of nation; saved people, weren’t lost in extreme situations, protected and struggled for human values. Working on this project, we have an intention to inspire our students and rising generation to act presently and change the world today; despite of, young age, nation, race, social status, beliefs, and influence of other circumstances. The substance of a project – to prove a self-realization in acquiring and improving social, linguistic, communicative, cognitive, initiative and creative, cultural, individual competences and skills. Acquiring these competences, students will develop their attitudes towards values, will become more tolerant to history, other generation, will be open to other cultures and views, will develop self-confidence and trust to others. We hope our project partners will be active in creation strong Europe, in the aspect of collaboration, communication, mutual respect and appreciation.
Collected historical material about children’s achievements, culture, traditions of their region will be presented during the visits. After learning mobility project members will report the information to their school students about the events and activities which were implemented in other countries.
Students, supervised by teachers from each project partner school, will prepare the presentations of the collected stories, and they will be conveyed using various modern expressions of art. They will produce e-Journal “Children also may change the world” based on methodology and education. The teachers of History, Native language, Ethics, Art of all countries will publish lesson plans, lesson handouts and methodological recommendations in the e-Journal. The e-Journal will be produced in project partners’ native language and English. The project partners will produce a collective DVD with captions in English which includes presentations of stories collected during the project. Students reviving and enhancing historical memory will assess the present events more realistically.
The teachers will convey a satisfactory experience organizing formal and informal education: they will learn new methods, lesson planning forms, IT integration to school subjects by invoking these expressions of art (art, music, theatre and dance) to form historical memory. The teachers will acquire an intercultural competence, the competence of educational environment creation, students’ motivation and cooperation competence, student’s cognitive and progress appreciation competence, communicative and information control competence. Students and teachers participating in the project will communicate and cooperate in a virtual space.