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Conflict ResolUtion for better ScHool management
Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Conflicts are related to any human activity, for this reason it is very important to know how to cope with it as the conflict can be something that makes us grow as human beings. This project will give their participants tools to deal with conflicts. Conflicts will be related to different common activities. Improving the environment coexistence is one of the main objectives of each school and improving it will affect directly to any field of our school communities. Learning how to cope with conflicts starts from the school but it will last forever. We truly think that the students need tools to work collaboratively, with respect to the others, with responsibility and with empathy in order to resolve any conflict they can have in their lives. The main objective of this project will be to tackle early school leaving and fighting school failure by developing transversal and basic skills through innovative methodologies. These methodologies will help students to cope with conflicts and they will increase motivation of students. Furthermore, methodologies proposed will help students with fewer conditions and lower basic skills to be helped by leading students, as far as this project will work with methodologies as peer-to-peer mediation. This project will reflect on daily life problems of students, such as conflicts on the Internet, conflicts through collaborative work or in the work place. This project will have a partnership of five schools. Each partner has a different educational reality. The five schools involved on this project have coexistence problems. Similar problems are solved in different ways and these solutions must be shared to enrich our schools. Furthermore, each school has its own experience in solving conflicts that may be new conflicts in the other schools so, if we share these experiences with others, we will facilitate school work and strengthen professional teaching competences. Teachers from each school live conflicts daily and these situations make our work tougher. Getting to know different possible solutions a conflict has is achieved by learning how to work collaboratively with the rest of the colleagues of our schools; developing long life learning activities; and sharing different conflict resolution strategies with other schools. To reach our objectives, the partnership will work around the next topics, which are related to each school background: • People from different cultures living together: mutual enrichment and solving conflicts. • Peer-to-peer mediation. • Correct uses of Social Networks: how to cope with conflicts in the Internet. • Learn how to work collaboratively: Project method. • Collaborative work in the work place. Entrepreneurship training and conflicts. The activities proposed during these two years are focused on teachers and students. Teachers will participate in different workshops so that they can experience the new methodologies proposed in the different schools which are already using them. Students will be active participants in all the process as far as they will work on different conflict solvings. Students need to experience in different ways coexistence problems and learn the solutions they have. In general, proposed activities are: two transnational meetings, where teachers will design the general ideas, the Quality Plan and the Sustainability Plan, teachers will make framework protocols during the project to insert the new ideas in their own schools. All these experiences will be possible because of exchanges of students and joints of staff events, but there will be also activities to carry out from each school in order to prepare all these exchanges. These activities will be in English and they will be carried out through different ICT tools. They will analyse the situation of each school around all the topics treated. The methodology will be based on the collaborative work. Each partner will have its own main duty and in each school there will be different responsibilities for each member of the work team. There will be a general coordinator of the project in each school and it will be helped by people with different responsibilities (Quality, ICT, Communication, Europass and Budget). The general results of this project will be the introduction of new methodologies, developing new framework protocols in these schools and the creation of OER by our students. To sum up, the impact will improve the school environment, increase the motivation of the participants, strengthen the relations with local institutions, increase the effective introduction of ICT, encourage to learn foreign languages and introduce the proper use of Europass. Once the project will finish, the benefits of this project will remain sustainable. The protocols will be used in each school and could be introduced in other schools, the OER will be accessible on the Internet and the partnership will keep on working through other transnational projects.
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