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Teaching methods should keep up to the rapid pace of their development. Considering we are living in a new technological, fast era we can’t afford to neglect influences coming from new media and tools, keeping in mind the desire to start our students to the journey of discovering & rediscovering own or others' cultural heritages. We should organise activities to improve students' basic competencies like language, communication, as well as skills such as interpreting our past to better plan our future, in a period when they passively absorb information just using a phone, a computer or even watching TV, without even knowing what we are. They usually ignore our common past. We will ask the children to challenge themselves, to explore and compare different cultures and heritages, ask them to leave the comfort zone coming from information easily acquired through images or films. Students will take part in workshops, design buildings or structures, compare them and draw conclusions They will take part in competitions dealing with Cultural Heritage. So doing, they will take advantage of their potential to boost their imagination & creativity. The same applies to their ability to express themselves, either artistically or for more down-to-earth purposes. With this in mind, we will attempt to explore that latent part of the students’ brain which is responsible for and or interpreting, deeply understanding, imagination, creativity and reflection. So learning by doing or in context is the key method of this project. Our target group includes students of the ages 12-17 with basic English skills (minimum A2 level) from our schools. We chose this age group as they are still showing enthusiasm for cultural heritage explorations and willing to learn. Approximately 600 students are being involved in addition to those who have little command of English who would be involved in artistic and cultural project activities in their mother tongue or virtual exchanges. Many of them come from disadvantaged/underprivileged families or having social, behavioral or other problems. The exposure to English, through meeting foreign students at school or virtually, anyway, will inevitably bring them valuable communicative skills benefits. Teachers from our schools will renew their working methods, share good practices and experiences with their colleagues from other countries & this way establish a professional network. Their prestige will increase dramatically & they will also improve their living standards.The motivation to carry out this project raised from a discussion among partners concerning our cultures and what cultural Heritage means to our students. Unfortunately, many of them are not aware of our similarities, differences & its importance to our communities. Since then, consulting frequently before applying, we elaborated a draft about the topic leading to the following aims in detail :Help our students/teachers to :-understand the general idea of Culture & European Heritage- demonstrate the different aspects of Culture & European Heritage while learning tolerance/acceptance/empathy/sympathy- identify tangible, intangible cultural elements and common European Heritage-explore or improve different methods of teaching the Cultural Heritage by diversifying the lessons-explain the concept of the experiential learning cycle & how it is used in teaching- have teachers reflect on their own practice of teaching heritage and diversity themes-develop outlines of a curriculum for teaching cultural heritage and cultural diversity in our and others' classrooms-improve language, ICT, math, sciences, social skills/competencies. The project's transnational character is essential/indispensable in the attainment of the project objectives. That is why we need urgently this project to be granted.While preparing for the exchange meetings they will learn about their differences/similarities and boost their curiosity about other similar/different cultures around Europe. This will help them to feel respect, accept differences & be respectful towards other nations/cultures of Europe.By carrying out local events students will also discover forgotten or neglected sites and will have the opportunity to study, document and share them with their peers from other countries.By visiting, documenting, exploring Cultural Heritage sites, students will be able to analyse, compare, write legends, make films, report and research about those places and draw conclusions about the impact on our communities and countries.Evaluations will be carried out frequently to ensure we achieve the project objectives and keep its high quality.The methodology used will be experimenting, Problem Based Learning(PBL), CLIL and non-formal methods like reflection, brainstorming, discussion, etc. The most effective, innovative good practices will be included in the curriculum of our schools as follow-up activities after the project ends.
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