Project

THE PROJECT

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

Aristotle

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

Aristotle

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN

STUDENTS 6-17 YEARS

SUBJECTS: CITIZENSHIP, PHILOSOPHY, FOREIGN LANGUAGES, SOCIAL STUDIES, HISTORY.

DESCRIPTION

Ethics play a fundamental role in teaching. People are responsible for their decisions and actions and ethics teach us what is right and what is wrong. In the process of learning and acquiring information people should become better humans. That's why teaching ethics should go together with general education so students could learn values to become trustful, responsible and just. They should be taught ethics to respect others with their diversity and to respect rules to become better citizens and to build a better society.

This Project was created as a continuation of "Stay Human" Project to deal with Moral Dilemmas and strengthen humanitarian international collaboration in English, Italian and French.

AIMS AND GOALS

The aim of this project is to:

- communicate in English, Italian and French exchanging experience, discussing values and attitudes

- promote tolerant and open-minded attitude towards people and ideas

- pass on ethical values on students and stress its importance

- prepare students for future work (ethics are highly valued among employers)

- provide students with moral development

- help forming an ethically mature human being - a better human

- expose student to critical thinking by presenting different viewpoints (to help identify right and

wrong)

- encourage students to reflect on dilemmas in order to become more aware and assertive in the

future when they face a real life situations after practicing debates on fictional situations

- encourage students to determine what is right or wrong ( decide which decision is the least

harmful or most beneficial) - decision making

- help them become more self-dependant individuals - teach them think independently

- help them develop social skills

METHODOLOGIES

Participants will be involved in planning, preparation, organization, implementation, presenting the final result and evaluation. They will contact each other every week. Founders and Partners will be in touch everyday :)

The Project will last till June & will include:

- setting up Pages and Project Journal on Twinspace,

- voting for the Logo of the project,

- finding inspiration to discuss Moral Dilemmas in songs, books & films

- studying philosophy, doing research on Ethics & establishing definition of Ethical Dilemmas

- Interpreting philosophical quotations

- defining "wright/wrong"

- starting common Padlets to share the outcomes

- maintaining Twinspace (Project Pages, Materials, Forum)

- preparing & sharing Videos & audio

- exchanging thoughts & ideas in collaborative writing

- students' corresponding

- students' Live meeting to do the brainstorm

- exchanging Seasonal Greetings

- Founders' & Partners' Live meetings

- mid-term & final evaluation & self-assessment

EXPECTED RESULTS

Expected Results:

- strengthening teachers - students relationship

- improving verbal and written communication

- strengthening students' self-confidence through collaboration first within a class and then sharing with the European Partners

- broadening knowledge on philosophy and Ethics

- learning to respect decisions taken by other people

- forming and strengthening relationship between teachers from other European countries through sharing with knowledge and experience gained

- learning from each other

- improving teachers' Foreign Language and ICT skills

- comparing and implementing practices and values in our schools

- taking part in building up a European Community

APPS AND TOOLS:

- Twispace (Pages, Journal, Forum, Materials)

- Videos, Padlets, Collaborative Writings

- Logo of the project

- PPTX presentations - photos

- Live Meetings

- Surveys, Kahoots, Quizizz, Google Documents