Our school is one of the five partners in Erasmus+ KA210 project “Ensuring Integration with Cooperative Learning in Mixed Classrooms”. Together with teachers from “Die Brücke Des FriedensIn”, Vien, Austria; teachers from “Yenilikçi Eğitim Derneği”, Adana, Turkey; teachers from “Yusuf Bayik Ilkokulu”, Mersin, Turkey and teachers from Liceul Teoretic “Serban Voda”, Slanic, Romania we are improving our knowledge about cooperative learning and ensuring integration in mixed classrooms.
This project is based on an exchange of best practices for implementing cooperative learning in blended classrooms. Project aim is to prevent our students with special education needs and immigrant children from being exposed to prejudice and exclusion. Project goals are to support healthy, happy and learning oriented children who have developed social skills, have a sense of belonging, cooperate, integrate into their environments, without focusing on academic success.
The main expected results of the project are:
- Development of students, teachers and parents in the desired direction in line with the project objectives with the help of collaborative practices in mainstreaming classrooms.
- Including the implementation activities within the scope of the project into the curriculum
- Getting to know children in need better and contributing to their integration with school and society
Project activities are one teacher training and 4 different joint implementation activities with five different partners from four different countries:
- *Teacher Training on Recognition and Management of Mixed Classrooms
- *The Effect of Music and Dance on Cooperative Learning
- *The Effect of Digital-Educational Games on Cooperative Learning
- *The Effect of Creative Drama Practices on Cooperative Learning
- *Effect of Orff Applications in Cooperative Learning
Mobility in Austria- The Effect of Digital-Educational Games on Cooperative Learning
Mobility in Romania – The Effect of Creative Drama Practices on Cooperative Learning
