Write for Rights global letter writing marathon

On 11^th  December students from partners participated in the Write for Rights Amnesty’s annual global letter writing marathon for people whose basic human rights are under attack. Every December, Amnesty International supporters write millions of messages to change lives worldwide, to help release prisoners of conscience, bring torturers to justice and change laws to protect people's freedom.

The first meeting of the Erasmus+ Team at Gimnazjum nr 9 im Jana Pawła II in Sosnowiec

The first meeting of the Erasmus+ Team took place on 8th December. The team was informed about the aims of the project and started planning the calendar of events for the coming year. The students are interested in the project and eager to work on it.

Presentation of the project to the staff at Gimnazjum nr 9 im Jana Pawła II in Sosnowiec

On the 26th of November there was a staff meeting held in Gimnazjum nr 9
im. Jana Pawła II in Sosnowiec in order to report on the meeting in Elche, Spain and  to inform teachers about the decisions taken there. We would like to thank everyone for participation and attention.

SUMMARY SPANISH MEETING NOV.2014

The first Transnational Project Meeting was held in Elche (Spain), IES Tirant Lo Blanc, from 17th to 21st November 2014. 

Family Picture at School

The work programme was carried out from Tuesday 18th to Thursday 20th according to the foreseen.

• 18th Tuesday: 

Welcome Ceremony. Regional and Local Government, Headmaster and Parent Association attended the meeting:

Welcome Ceremony

 Participants:

Mr. José Cantó Alonsó, Head of  Teaching Training Department, Conselleria d'Educació,  Generalitat Valenciana.
Mr. José Vicente Sanía, European Projects Coordinator, Conselleria d'Educació, Generalitat Valenciana.
Mr. José Antonio Serrano López, Headmaster IES Tirant lo Blanc.
Mr. Daniel McEcvoy, Inspector of Education, Generalitat Valenciana.
IES Tirant lo Blanc-Parents Association
Mr. Darío M. Montesinos, Project Coordinator.

Activities with students. Mrs. Teresa Segalienè

Slovakia: Mrs. Jana Kuracinová, Headmistress.  and Mrs. Sabiná Blazová, Project Coordinator.
Turkey: Mrs. Sema Batirbe, Headmistress, and Mrs. Katarzyna Atmaca, Project Coordinator.
Greece: Mr. Dimitrios Sokoutis, Headmaster, and Mrs. Dora Glaraki, Project Coordinator.
Finland: Mrs. Mari Toivane, Vice-Headmistress, and Mr. Markus Kiovisto, Project Coordinator.
Lithuania: Mrs. Teresa Segalienè, Project Coordinator.
Poland: Joanna Janas-Sajdak, Project Coordinator.
Italy: Mrs. Nicoletta Berrone, Headmistress, Mrs. Paola Perotto and Mr. Gianpaolo Cassano, Project Coordinator.

 Meeting with teachers at Staff Room

Talk about Spanish Educational System by Mr. Pere Soriano i Guilabert. (Upload)

 Mr. Pere Soriano i Guilabert

Everyday we had a coffee break at staff-room with all teachers to meet one another.

Partners presented their schools:

-Greece

-Poland

-Finland

-Lithuania

-Italy

-Turkey

-Slovakia

We had the dinner at University Miguel Hernández where partners met Prof. Miguel Orts Montenegro who explained the task of Cátedra Pere Ibarra of UMH. 

Mr. Miguel Orts Montenegro, UMH University

Work meetings were held to go in details about the different aspects of the project:

1. New budget
2. Reorganization of schedule
3. Making agreements on dates: Italian, Polish meeting and Teaching Training Course.
4. Making agreements on Lessons Plan structure and Documental script.
5. Teaching Training Event.

Making decisions

Work meeting presentation:

• 19th Wednesday:

We visited Museo de la Festa, World Heritage.

We visited the City Hall and we met Mr. Daniel McEvoy Bravo, Education City Councillor.
Partners met students involved in the project by attending lessons in country group.

Mr. Daniel McEvoy, Education Councillor, Elche City Hall

Work meetings were held to go in details about the different aspects of the project:

1. Communication
2. People in charge
3. Evaluation quality of project and results
4. Quality poll
5. KA1
6. Student exchange

Writing the agreements

• 20th Thursday

A talk was hold by Mrs. Maribel Hernández, Amnesty International: "Teaching Human Rights at School. The role of AI at our ptroject" (1st pp.)  (2nd. pp.)

Meeting with students involved in the project.

Activities with students

Signature of agreements

Signature with students

Dissemination Radio:
Radio Onda Cero
Radio UMH
Radio Cadena Ser
Radio Marca
Radio Sefarad

Onda Cero Radio

Dissemination Newspaper:
La Verdad
La Vanguardia
ABC
Elche Diario
Elche Digital

Mrs. Dora Glaraki with students of Latin

Dissemination Television:
Tele -Elx

Spanish Students guiding our guests 

Documents:
Invitation
Work-Programme
Presentation project
Amnesty International Presentations 1 and 2

City Tour by Elche

ITALIAN MEETING FEBRUARY 2015

According to the agreement signed in Elche Nov.14, the next Transnational Project Meeting will be held from Monday 23rd to Friday 27th Febreuary 2015 at ISS Leardi, in Casale Monferrato, Italy. 

Monday 23rd and Friday 27th will be arrival/departure days, so the working plan will be carried out from 24th to 26th. 

Partners are asked for respecting the work days as much as possible to book flight tickets. 

Activities organized by Italian Partner:

-Seminar Italian Educational System. The running of the School. Attention to the

Leaving School Early and the School Failure.

-Seminar Concentration Camps and the extermination in Italy. The current attitude of

Italian parties.

Activities organized by all partners:

-Final agreement on the Didactic Units (Lesson Plan or Teaching Units).

-Final agreement on the script of the Documentary.

-Selection and presentation of material for Didactic Units (Lesson Plan or Teaching Units): texts, pictures, movies, documentaries. Partners will present their biographies selected to work on the resistance.

-Preparing the student exchange in Poland.

-1st Official Report about the project: progress, budget, project risks, conflict

resolutions.

MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY-ELX

WORK PLAN/FLYER

Erasmus + meeting for coordinators organized by OAPEE, Spanish National Agency

We have just participated in a meeting organized by OAPEE, Spanish National Agency for coordinators involved in KA2, Cooperation for innovation and good practices. I took place in Madrid from 3th to 4th Novermber 2014.

Work Plan

Presentation of the project at the IES Tirant Lo Blanc staff meeting.

29th November the IES Tirant Lo Blanc staff meeting took place at the meeting room of our school. We would like to express our gratitude to our colleges for the attention. Thank you!

Presentation of the Project to the Spanish Parent Association IES Tirant Lo Blanc

20th November the Spanish Project Coordinator presented the Erasmus + project to the Parent Association that will be involved in it for three years. In the meeting we deal with many topics:

-objectives

-final products

-students involved

-students exchange

We would like to express our gratitude to the IES Tirant lo Blanc Parent Association for its help and willingness.

DRAFT WORK MEETING PROGRAM. SPAIN NOV.2014

OFFICIAL INVITATION SPANISH MEETING NOV.2014

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

What is the rationale of this project, in terms of objectives pursued and needs to be addressed?

The main needs we follow and the rationale for carrying out the project are focused on three aspects:

1. The social circumstances of our schools. Some partners provide education to students in a working-class neighbourhood which are suffering from the crisis with high unemployment. Radical policy ,supported by common issues such as totalitarianisms, xenophobia, fundamentalism and others come to life under extreme conditions. Very often these movements try to manipulate,deny and distort the History   order to give a demagogic response to the people who suffer the economic crisis. In this sense, these ideologies are focused on youngsters and we would like to prepare a set of European/International Teaching Units about the consequences of the totalitarianism in the XX Century, in the WWII and in the Spanish Civil War, with emphasis on the Human Rights like the concentration camps during the Holocaust (Shoah) and the current consequences of the Spanish Civil War (Law of Historical Memory), and the resistance movement of people who thought other world and reality was possible. It means our main purpose is to make our students aware of the importance of critical thinking and political and social activism in the construction of the EU through the European History and the development of Human Rights against intolerance and totalitarianism in order to create pedagogical materials to offer a new perspective on the extermination: from Collaboration, Indifference and Resistance. In this sense our students will understand better what is the totalitarianisms and the new ways of radicalism. While learning about the consequences of WWII, the extermination, we want pupils to make presentations about the people who lived and suffered the totalitarian ideas focusing on the people who resisted and rebelled, people who were indifferent, people who collaborated. They will present works on these topics related to their countries. Additionally, they will prepare a work about the current messages of radical parties and how these parties deal with this topic. Finally, we want our students to understand the real consequences of similar ideas by visiting Auschwitz.

2.Apart from that, our objective is to improve the social, foreign languages and ICT skills of our students to promote the social inclusion and to make the incorporation into the global market easier by communicating in English, doing exchanges on family level, working in workshops made by students from partner schools, preparing materials and presentations in other countries facing new challenges for them. We would like to create a teaching programme which takes the English and foreign languages skills into account to offer as soon as we can, multilingual education. We would like to receive guest teacher to give our students the opportunity to attend different subjects in English for a short periods with a European teacher (job shadowing).

3. A great deal of students of some partners suffer from dauting social circumstancies. We have different programmes to fight the leaving school early like PRA and the school failure (Programme to reduce the leaving school early LSE) and PCPI Early Qualification Programme) and we hope to improve these programmes and reduce our LSE percentage thanks to this project. That is why it is so important to offer foreign languages and new technologies skills to open the students minds, to help them understand the European dimension of labor market. In addition, this project is addressed to all students, all levels, through the didactic units and extra curricula activities provided by all departments during three years on the following topic: The fight for the Human Rights.

4. The social circumstances of the families (Parents Association). We expect to involve the families in the project and to improve the contact between families, teachers and students and to encourage the implication at our school by taking part in the student exchange, activities and in the management of the project. We want to make a documentary about the progress of the project from the beginning to the end, showing how students, families, teachers change their opinion and their feelings about the History as soon as they comprehend, study, visit and become aware of what has happened. The photo exhibitions on the events of the project, reflections on school sites , relevant information in local media will be produced as well. In what way is the project innovative

SPANISH MEETING SUGGESTION

Dear partners:

I have started a blog: HERE 

Yesterday I sent you all a invitation (email) from blogger application to make you participant in the blog. Please, you must accept this invitation to be able to manage the blog. From now I will upload different information and documents on the blog and you will be able to do the same. 

Regarding the first Spanish meeting  our suggestion is 12-13-14 November (11 and 15 arrive/departure days) What do you think about?

Have a nice Friday!

All the best, 

Darío

TIME TO BREATHE

Darío Martínez Montesinos <dariommontesinos@gmail.com>
para Joanna, Amnistía, Dora, Teresa, Antonio, Sabina, gianpaolo, Maribel, markus.koivisto, katty, Ana, tabarelx, José

Dear partners:

First of all and again IES Tirant lo Blanc, my School, would like to express our gratitude for your hard work.

As you know well, The EU has resolved the 2014 CALL late, so maybe we will have to reorganize this first year, so:

1. We will send you as soon as possible, the final application form to see why the EU has modified the grand and to know if it has a repercussion in our plans.

2. We are going to talk to International Amnisty, UNESCO and M.H. University to prepare a "press conference".

3.We would like to make a meeting in Elche with headmasters and coordinators if possible ( We have to study the approved budget) where we could discuss in detail the differents aspect of the project to sing a general agreement. This meeting would be a great opportunity to carry out the "press conference".

4. My School is preparing a staff meeting and a Parents Association meeting to inform in detail about the project.

If you have more things to share,do not hesitate to get in touch.

All the best,

Darío

SELECTED PROJECTS SPAIN CALL 2014