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Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Main content of the project is composed of activities to be learnt, followed and used by teachers and school administrators through 21st century teaching methods and techniques so that 21st century students can enrich their academic achievement and continue their education as those who can critically think, learn to learn and are open to innovations.These activities will be used to meet these goals: - Increasing academic success of the students in English, Maths, Science and Technology and Social Studies with the help of new teaching methods and techniques by the teacgers, - Forming a positive attitude towards learning and using English, - Our teachers and administrators can become educators who are open to technologic advances and follow and use them, - Creating activities in classes that enable students to acquire creative and critical thinking and basic skills of the 21st century can be developed, - Increasing Cultural awareness, - The right use of ICT and media in daily life and courses can be realized and focus in how they can get the precise information, - Students can successfully continue their formal education; in other words correct motivation patterns can be used in order to prevent early school leaving and thus helping to form the cooperation between the administrators and teachers for this purpose, - Administrators and teachers can adapt to the activities that will make curriculum components modern and rational, - Thus; an exchange of knowledge with European educational systems will have been realized. In light of these objectives; 15 educators who will participate in our project are composed of those professionals who volunteer to work in international projects, have produced academic activities, are open to individual and professional advances, have participated in non-area subjects, have positive relations with students, are keen on learning and speaking foreign languages and participated in national and international projects. Three main activities/phases in the project will be carried out: In the 1st phase, 6 teachers and 2 administrators participate in ‘Teaching Through 21st-Century Methodologies’ in August 2014 in Czech Republic. 2nd phase will be carried out by 2 teachers and 1 administrator from our school who will participate in job shodowing in the partner school in England in October 2014. In the last phase, 3 teachers 1 administrator will participate in "Problem-Based Learning-A Practical Guide" in France in June 2015. A SWOT analysis, teacher meetings, a survey of expectation, a questionnaire in the preparatory process; a check list, meeting, diary, observation during the practice process; an action plan, a survey, reporting in the evaluation and dissemination processes will be the methods to be used in the project implementation plan (methodology). Outcomes and impact of the project upon three different groups are summarized as follows; it is expected to make the participants more open and interested to other cultures; to increase their motivation in teaching activities; to have acareer in intercultural and social proficiency; to increase their academic knowledge in their teaching fields, to improve their existing knowledge and to get the ability to use this knowledge both in-class and non-class activities, to understand different educational systems in European standards, to increase the motivation to learn a new language, to increase the knowledge in administration, to increase the ability to use ICT. As far as institutional outcomes are concerned it is expected to encourage other teachers to play a role in similar activities, to increase intercultural awareness, to create a better cooperation environment among the teachers, to introduce and to use new teaching and learning techniques and to make our school a certified “European School”. As for the students; our aim is to make them open to other cultures and to increase their interest to these cultures, increased motivation in learning and innovations, to shape them into creatively and critically thinking individuals who use ICT and media consciously, to encourage the use and learning of a foreign language, to increase their academic success in English, Maths,Science and Technology and Social Studies, to maintain their school attendance by loving their school in general then their teachers and friends and thus to help them finish the school successfully. Long term project benefits are to create a motivation not only for the teachers of English language but also for the teachers of other academic branches to show a tendency for generating projects in the following years, sustaining the school success of the students, training them as enlightened citizens with the 21st century skills; as for the school administration; it is expected that there will be a European perspective by showing an understanding towards teachers and and creating a school environment that increases teachers’ commitment.
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