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Innovative Teaching Against Bullying

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2020-1-FR01-KA229-079804
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | School Exchange Partnerships Funder Contribution: 197,410 EUR

Innovative Teaching Against Bullying

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Innovative Teaching Against Bullying involves six secondary schools that educate and instruct pupils of diverse ethnic, religious and cultural origins. Most of these learners come from disadvantaged families with low opportunities for learning, traveling or self-educating. They usually have very poor general knowledge, very low skills in foreign languages and ICT, and above all, have no motivation for learning in general and easily give up when they face difficulties in their learning. They have problems to find their place in the world, they don’t exactly know how to go through a maturing process and they very often have no idea for their future, have problems with defining their values, understanding themselves. They feel lost and adults around them do not always set up a good example for them. Different local official statistics show that the majority of these learners are often victims of violence and are mistreated in their own families. Sometimes their mothers are also beaten by their husbands. As a result, these learners lost their self-esteem and have become bullies themselves and mistreat their schoolmates in various ways, including cyberbullying, left alone the conflicts and quarrels with teachers. The repetition of such violent behavior affects the atmosphere at school and makes the other learners feel insecure. Therefore, it appears judicious for us to shape these misbehaving learners’ positive attitudes by engaging them in a challenging ICT-based European partnership. Their active participation in this collaborative challenge will, on the one hand, enable them to acquire new skills in ICT and become creative. On the other hand, they will regain their self-esteem and self-confidence and become more respectful towards their schoolmates and teachers. Besides, the project will offer them an opportunity to meet other European learners of their age, to develop their oral communication competencies in foreign languages, to acquire intercultural skills, and thus, to build their European citizenship.To implement our partnership and hit our objectives we have shared tasks amongst us according to each other’s experience and expertise. A five-day ICT workshop will be organized for teachers in December 2020. Participants will learn how to use a variety of ICT tools, and how to share all created materials on a dynamic project website. Three Transnational Project Meetings will also take place. They will offer teachers the possibility to practice foreign languages, to get familiar with other European know-how by observing classes in the hosting countries, and to exchange good practice by giving ICT-based lessons themselves to local pupils. Regarding the learners, we will first make preliminary assessments and rate pupils’ ability level on a number of skills. Based on the results we will purposefully create small groups that blend abilities and backgrounds and incorporate team-building activities carefully adapted to their abilities and possibilities. Besides, we will have them complete tasks that involve using ICT and oral communication skills that they will likely need in their future professional life. Finally, they will participate in two ten-day citizenship language camps which will be held in two different partner countries. These camps will put these learners in authentic communication situations and give them good opportunities to cooperate with other European learners of their age and high up their self-confidence, make new friends, foster tolerance and enlarge their cultural horizons.To ensure the efficiency of our strategy, various evaluation tools will be developed and used. Communication between partners through video conferencing will occur every month to ensure the best follow up of the partnership activities, and a WhatsApp group will be used for day-to-day exchanges. To disseminate our results as widely as possible we will create a dynamic website, a Facebook page, a YouTube channel and a Twitter account. To sustain our partnership and its results we have agreed to continue our cooperation beyond the two years of the project through the Twinspace Portal. As a result, this partnership will not only help to fight against bullying and make the schools’ environment more positive and safer for learning for the other pupils, but will grant bullies a chance to change their image and behavior, and to high up their self-esteem. Moreover, it will allow them to acquire new skills which will undoubtedly raise their future social inclusion opportunities as well. The partnership will also allow constructive exchanges of good practice between European teachers, and promote the incorporation of innovative digital teaching method and project-based pedagogy in the teachers' daily pedagogical practice, which will make their classes more engaging and more challenging for these main target groups as well as for the other learners in the partner schools.

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