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A video made from moments of the 2nd exchange of students in Xanthi -
November, 19-23, 2018
Minute of the Greek short-term exchange of groups of pupils
From November 19th to 23th 2018, 12 students and 7 teachers from Sweden, Czech Republic and Spain, were gathered in Xanthi for the second short-term exchange of groups of pupils of the Erasmus+ project «Flying Across Borders». The meeting was hosted by 2nd Vocational School of Xanthi (EPAL). The host school has directly involved 12 students and 10 teachers from different subjects, but also 400 students and 60 teachers were also indirectly involved during the preparation of the project activities, that have been developed during the week.
The participants took part in the following activities:
Teaching Learning Activities (workshops) For Students
· Ice Breaking Activities (Introducing the participants, “Getting-to-know-each-other” section : Presentations of how is work with diversity in school and how the diversity enhance student’s learning, presentations of the bird migration of every country, play Inclusion Games )
· Story Telling Workshop to describe Refugee Crisis: each country's pupils group were asked before to create one imaginary story about a family with children, who are forced to leave their country and migrate to another.
· The story had to answer the following questions :
1. Which is their native country and where are they going to?
2. Why were they forced to leave?
3. What is the route they are following (from which countries they are passing through)?
4. What difficulties do they meet at the receiving country and particulary:
-do they find easily food and a place to stay?
-can the parents find a job?
-is there a school for the children to go?
-how easily can they learn the language of this country?
By the end we had 4 stories, one from each country.
During the meeting the pupils attended a workshop about a story telling web 2.0 tool. The 24 students were divided in four groups and they had to create the story using Pixton Comic Maker Web tool.
· STEM Education Workshop: Using 3D printing the students created objects. They printed and painted migratory birds that could also be used as bookmarks.
· Discovering and Display Erasmus Values Workshop: the students were asked before to take part in an online vote. They had to choose their favourite answer in the question : "What word came into your mind when you decided to join the project "Flying Across Borders”?". The results of the vote created the most popular words classification. The words in turn were printed on a special sticker and the pupils stuck them on the steps of the school so as to remind everyone of the values of the Erasmus+ projects.
· Flying Across Borders by Art: a workshop to create a cardboard panel with migratory birds and use it as a memory board with “sharing thoughts” of the meeting written on it.
· Stop Motion video Workshop: Students attended a workshop of the web tool Stop Motion animation to show the route migratory birds follow from North to South and back again.
Workshops for teachers
· Workshop about Learning Designer. Presentation of the model lesson plans.
· Evaluating first year of the project
· Resume of project's goals
· Ways to integrate inclusion lesson plans into current schools' syllabus.
· Preparing the 2nd year of the project.
1. Updating eTwinning
2. Updating Google site
3. Set the next Hang out meeting date.
4. Decide about the Activity in the next meeting in Sweden: Working with Stereotypes.
5. Lesson Plans.
Cultural/ Environmental Activities
· Cultural Visit : Guided tour to Xanthi's Old Town - Visit and participation to Xanthi's traditional cultural group activities
· Environmental Visit : Alistrati Prehistoric Cave near Drama city.
· "Land of Democritus" , Visit to Avdira Museum and ruins of ancient Avdira
Sharing of Practices
· Visit Primary School in Drama that integrate refugees’ children. Presentation from the headteacher and the regional director for refugees the educational frame of Greece. Applying model lesson plans
· Visit to a kindergarten that works inside a refugee camp in the city of Drama.
Dissemination Activities
· Visit to city's Local authorities - Meeting wih the vice mayor and discuss about the aims of our project as well as important issues that concerns the city of Xanthi.
The partners have agreed on the following:
· Stereotypes:
1. Preparation: Discussion about the word stereotype; what does it mean? Which stereotypes do we have of other people? Other countries? Other cultures?
Teachers should be bewaring of the good feeling in the student group!
2. Activity during the meeting: During the meeting in Lund and “The getting to know each other section” an activity about the stereotypes will take place:
Scenario:
Students from three countries talks about the stereotypes they have about one country at a time, for example Sweden.
Swedish team will have 15 minutes to prepare the answer to the stereotypes have given them. (even though they already have made the preparation at home). The Swedish team will then answer to all of the stereotypes from each country like “No, we are not because… in Sweden we..”
After the stereotypes are answered from Sweden, next country are coming up to answer all stereotypes from the other countries (so on and so forth..)
First coming up is Sweden and after that the Czech, Spain and Greece.
If possible teams will add pictures connecting the stereotypes in the presentation.
Teachers will have to put your list in the folder “Stereotypes” latest 31 January 2019. During February and March the teams will read the 12 stereotypes of their country and prepare the answers for the activity in Lund.
· Hang out meeting date will be on 7th of March,2019 at 15.00 pm Stockholm time
· Lesson Plan: Teachers will make a lesson plan about Working with stereotypes in class and upload it in the shared folder https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eJvoFsJ9TdxwffZFytBpD8rk4-moyJ76
· eTwinning: Upload presentations and pictures. https://twinspace.etwinning.net/53962/home
· Google site: it should be updated with presentations and pictures
https://sites.google.com/view/flying-across-borders/our-project-our-aim
· Date for the TPM meeting in Zaragoza possible: Arrival Sunday 14 June 2020, late afternoon. Working on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Departure afternoon Wednesday 17 June, 2020.
The Local Coordinator The Project Coordinator
Maria Charoudi Viveca Dahl
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