The project is an inter-school strategic partnership project in partnership with Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, and Poland under the coordination of Turkey. 100 students and 32 teachers will participate in five LTT activities within the scope of the project. Participants are students aged 15-16, who are considered to be trusted by their friends, with different disadvantages, and will be voluntarily included in the mediation system made up of teachers from different branches and guidance in the first place. 

With the admission of students without exams for the last two years, students who came to our school with a low score and grade point average have changed the school climate and student structure negatively.

The conflict between the educational, social, and economic factors triggered by this change and the search for the identity of adolescent students leads to unwanted conflicts between them.

These conflicts among students brought the search for a solution to this problem. In our researches, it was observed that Peer Mediation and leading student training program was successfully implemented in schools in Europe.

Peer Mediation is an application that offers students creative solutions in the face of all kinds of disagreements and conflicts they encounter in their school lives, with the understanding of win-win, that is, the ones that do not lose.

According to this definition, students are expected to be active in peer mediation. However, the fact that the studies carried out in our country are geared towards teachers and the inability to fully understand what to do in the direction of educating mediator leading students in schools makes the solution difficult.

The main goal of our project, which is formed with the participation of schools that have similar problems in Europe and successfully implement this program, is to train leading students who can understand and apply effectively the concept of peer mediation in schools as a solution to bullying and train teachers to direct this procedure.

For this purpose, the first LLT in Romania, where LTT activities and local practices will train teachers to manage the mediation process, with simulation, role play,sub-group work, and workshops that will progress with the logic of flipped classroom. Along with the peer mediation method of the students, we won’t reach our go by the training of basic knowledge and skills given in Bulgaria, Poland, Italy, and four LTT activities to be held in Turkey.

In summary with this project;

• Students will be provided with acquisitions such as being active, sharing, communication, initiative, leadership skills, problem-solving, conflict management with Peer Mediation Training.

• Peer Mediation Implementation Plan will be implemented in order to increase the school success of students who are bullied, improve school adaptability, learning skills, acquire social skills, and support psychologically

• The ability of teachers to manage the mediation process and students to take the role of mediation in conflicts will develop and strengthen

• With constructive conflict resolution, peer conflicts will be reduced by 60- 80%

• With the decrease in the number of conflicts, annual discipline events will decrease

• Healthy learning environments will be created to prevent absenteeism and school failure

• Peaceful school climate will be formed.

In addition;

• Teachers will spend less time and energy trying to resolve conflicts between students and manage unwanted behavior

• It will reduce the power-based approach to authoritarian, punitive discipline and increase the restorative one

• It will affect the school climate positively as it will cause the relations between student-student and student-teacher to be more positive and constructive

• It will increase the time teachers devote to teaching and students to learning

• The pressure of school discipline problems on teachers and school administrators will decrease, and the time allocated to discipline problems will decrease

• Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation training will improve the classroom and school atmosphere and will decrease the tension in school.

In addition to this, academic achievement will increase and early school dropouts will decrease with the increase in the quality time students spend at school and the change in their attitudes towards the lessons. Thus, it is expected that the number of students who will continue higher education with the increase of academic success will increase in the long term.

In addition, the analysis of the general discipline reports at the end of that year will be another indication of whether the project has achieved its objectives since the implementation of the mediation method after the project has started. Thus, it will be revealed how Peer Mediation can be used as a model for students to improve their academic achievements and increase their quality and success in education in developing a peaceful school culture in preventing conflicts between students in the long term.

În perioada 6 – 10 ianuarie 2020 a avut loc la Osijek, în Croația, prima mobilitate internațională cu elevii, în cadrul proiectului Erasmus+ KA229 – The Promotion of Entrepreneurial Skills Among SEN Students.

Acest prim schimb de experiență cu tema Learning to learn in Europe a fost organizat de partenerii de la Graditeljsko – geodetska škola Osijek, Croatia și a reunit peste 40 de profesori și elevi din cele 5 țări ale proiectului: Turcia, Croația, România, Italia și Portugalia.

La această primă mobilitate, echipa Colegiului Național Grigore Moisil Onești a fost reprezentată de 2 profesori (prof. Virginia-Smărăndița Brăescu, coordonator de proiect, și prof. Cristina Matei, membră a echipei de implementare a proiectului) și 3 elevi din clasa a XI a F (Chinzăruc Sabina-Andreea, Doliș Anda-Gabriela și Minuț Sergiu-Evanghelos).

Programul de formare a profesorilor și elevilor a abordat aspectele teoretice și practice referitoare la situația elevilor SEN (cu nevoi speciale), metodele de învățare activă și schimbul de bune practici pe această temă. Agenda activităților a inclus atât ateliere tematice pentru elevi și profesori, desfășurate în cadrul școlii, cât și vizite în teren, excursii tematice. Au fost invitați atât reprezentanți ai mass-media și ai altor instituții din Osijek cu care școala colaborează în proiectele extrașcolare, cât și reprezentanți ai Comitetului de părinți.

La întoarcerea în țară, planul de diseminare a activităților realizate de echipa de mobilitate a inclus:

1. Realizarea instrumentelor de diseminare;

2. Activități de diseminare cu elevii la orele de dirigenție;

3. Activitate de diseminare în Comisia diriginților

About the project

Teachers for Innovative classes! – Training Activities to foster Creative Thinking is our first Erasmus+KA101 project and our school wants to learn how to adapt to the new contexts for developing and strengthening the European dimension as a key aspect of institutional management and educational leadership.

Aims:

The objectives of this project are:

1. Developing the digital competences of 8 teachers from 4 curricular areas (Language and Communication, Mathematics and Sciences, Human and Society, Arts) for the innovation of the didactic process.

2. Optimize the key competences of the 21 direct beneficiaries of the target group through training activities and job shadowing by exchange of experience and best practices at European level.

3. Strengthen the European dimension of the school by increasing institutional management capacity for planning and implementing European projects.

Activities:

The project’s activities are innovative for our institution and support the implementation of a human resource development strategy that we have coded TIC-TACT and which is applied through four directions of action in relation to the staff in the school.

Strategy:

1. Motivational patterns of staff;

2. Adapting staff to change;

3. Long-term staff counseling;

4. Personnel working patterns.

The project’s activities are training courses organized in 3 streams and job shadowing .

Flow 1: “Digital and Social Media Competencies @ School with Asociazzione Euphoria in Rome (Italy) during 7 days on Easter vacation, April 2020. This course will be attended by 8 teachers who will be trained to conceptualize, implement and use digital and social media to allow the modernization and innovation of the teaching process in order to make teaching, learning and evaluation in classrooms more attractive and efficient for students. The course will provide teachers with practical ideas on how to integrate digital technology into existing school curricula.

Flow 2: “Conflict Management, Emotional Intelligence and Bullying Prevention” with Europass Teacher Academy in Florence (Italy), during 7 days in the summer vacation, august 2020. This course will include 3 teachers who will acquire specific tools and strategies to promote a positive climate in school.

Flow 3: “The 4Cs: Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication and Collaboration in Schools” with Europass Teacher Academy in Florence (Italy), during 7 days in the summer vacation, august 2020. This course will include 3 teachers who will develop their creativity and critical thinking.

School partner for job shadowing: IES Serpis (Valencia, Spain)

Asociazzione Euphoria and Europass Teacher Academy (Rome and Florence, Italy) have been chosen to host participants in training courses because they have a relevant experience both in the Erasmus+ program and the organization of training mobility in international contexts and in terms of specific thematic areas identified to meet the training needs of our staff and our school for the development of the European dimension, educational policies focus on acquiring skills that are also recognized on the labour market. Digital competences, creative ability, constructive critical thinking, teamwork skills, planning, risk prevention, and effective solution to problem solving are the expression of successful integration of attitudes, knowledge, skills and multiple cognitive and social-emotional resources for managing complex situations.

Results of the project:

The TIC-TACT project contributes to the development of the European dimension of our school as it encourages the active attitude of the staff for continuous professional training, updating knowledge, enhancing skills, maintaining desirable behaviors, increasing self-esteem, assuming professional responsibilities, amplifying the efficiency of teachers’ activity and their capacity to innovate.

The project will contribute to the development of competences relevant to the planning, management and implementation of European projects and will enable the development of participants’ competences to effectively manage the financial aspects and reporting activities of Erasmus+ projects.

About the project

Our Erasmus+ KA229 project, which aims to promote the entrepreneurial skills among students with special educational needs, is based on entrepreneurship competence, which is one of the eight core qualifications proposed by the European Parliament and the Council for lifelong learning.

Entrepreneurship refers to the individual’s ability to communicate ideas. It includes creativity, innovation and risk, as well as the ability to plan and manage projects to achieve goals. This supports day-to-day work at home and in society, enabling employees to be aware of the context of their work and opportunities, and provides a basis for more specific skills and knowledge needed by entrepreneurs who set up social or business activities.

Project Goals
1. Promotion of entrepreneurial competencies
2. Promotion of language competencies
3. Promotion of mathematical competencies
4. Promotion of digital competencies
5. Promotion of self-confidence competencies
6. Promotion of art and culture competencies

Activities

We will hold 6 LTT activities with our partners between September 2019 and August 2021.

1. LTT Croatia, January 2020, Learning to Learn in Europe – LLP Lifelong Learning Program

2. LTT Italy, April 2020, Art and Culture Education in Europe – Creative School

3. LTT Portugal, May 2020, ICT Education in Europe – Innovative Digital Classes:

4. LTT Romania, October 2020, European Language Education and CLL Method

5. LTT Turkey, April 2021, Entrepreneurship Education in Europe 6. LTT Italy, May 2021, Mathematics Education in Europe-STEM and Robotics Class

Project results: Outputs, Outcomes, Impact

1. Innovative methods and practices

2. New methodology and applications

3. New skills for teachers and students

Cele mai importante caracteristici și ținte strategice ale şcolii noastre, relevante pentru dimensiunea europeană și calitatea educaţiei furnizată de școală, sunt definite în PDI – Planul de Dezvoltare Instituțională și fundamentate în baza documentelor strategice la nivel european și național (Strategia Europa 2020, Educaţie şi formare 2020 – ET 2020, Strategia educației și formării profesionale din România etc.)

a) Promovarea și aprofundarea cunoașterii și respectării valorilor europene (dialog intercultural, democrație, pace, libertate, egalitate, cooperare, solidaritate etc.), a drepturilor omului, a coeziunii sociale şi a cetăţeniei active;

b) Îmbunătăţirea calităţii şi a eficienţei educaţiei şi formării profesionale prin dobândirea de către elevi și cadrele didactice a competențelor cheie europene;

c) Stimularea creativităţii şi a inovării, inclusiv a spiritului antreprenorial prin parteneriate strategice cu actori relevanți la nivel local, național și internațional (autoritatea locală, instituții de cultură, universități, institute de cercetare, ONG-uri, agenți economici etc.) pentru dobândirea de către elevi și cadrele didactice a unor competenţe transversale şi garantarea bunei funcţionări a triadei cunoaşterii (educaţie-cercetare-inovare);

d) Realizarea în practică a învăţării pe tot parcursul vieţii şi a mobilităţii prin creșterea gradului de implicare a elevilor și a cadrelor didactice în programe și proiecte europene: eTwinning, Erasmus+, EPAS, Discover.EU, Twin Towns – înfrățiri între orașe etc.

PDI – Planul de Dezvoltare Instituțională, 2019 – 2024