Motivating and Empowering Generations Through ART & SPORT

Motivating and Empowering Generations through ART & SPORT' project was developed with the aim of designing a learning pedagogy that reflects teachers and students culturally, inclusively and socially through Sport and Arts. PBL (Project-Based Learning) was promoted with a Content and Language Integrated Learning approach with Arts and Sports (key elements of education by guiding student inquiry, dialogue and creative thinking) and a student-centered approach through guided exploration.A SWOT analysis was carried out in the institutions and as a result of this analysis, it was determined that the students experienced physical and psychological problems in their schools. Due to the pandemic, students were kept away from sports with quarantines in their institutions and collective sports activities were exposed. At the same time, international workshops were held with students, believing in the power of art for spiritual healing. International workshops increased the motivation, interest and excitement of the students.It was observed that student interest and participation in sports and artistic activities increased. Foreign students were hosted in their homes by their school parents. It has developed a climate of peace&friendly

-The project was initiated in order to support physical and mental health ,well being through art and sport in order to improve the psychological recovery of students who have moved away from school life with the pandemic and quarantine process, to develop a positive attitude towards the school and increase their academic success. -In order to increase the professional competence of teachers, the min. 9 teachers included in the project.Teachers strenghtened to character education defines character comprehensively to include its cognitive, emotional, and behavioral dimensions. - Art, sports and common values and culture shared and learnt by partner schools thus cultural bridges between generations established. -It was aimed to increase efficiency, motivation and school performance in digital areas. -By organizing art exhibitions of personal actions that fight against climate change (hand made tools for games and sports made with recycled materials. We raised the awareness of our students about the climate of European countries,thus the objective of the project was to contribute to the EU´s achievement of climate change targets by contributing to activities against climate change.Further ways of sustainable lifestyle tried to find

Implementation: The project promoted at the institutional level and in local media, announcements were posted on the school's website. The schools determined the teachers and students according to the main objectives of the project, and the criteria evaluated together by consensus with other partners regarding the people who participated in the mobility. Our Erasmus + project brought people together to collaborate and learn effectively in different sports and arts fields. The personal development and entrepreneurship of many students and teachers increased with the project. Lifelong learning supported to students and teachers. Each school ensured the establishment of the Erasmus + corner and to carry out active work. It ensured that this panel works continuously with the responsible teachers in the project. At local and regional levels, the project disseminated through the press and other media, with many people being aware of the project and providing useful information to more people. Our project was developed on the eTwinning platform and good experiences were shared throughout the project. Workshops involving artistic, sports&cultural activities were held at partner schools for 5 working days. The guest students hosted

The main results of the cooperation was enabling and supporting the development of our partner schools, strengthening the net of cooperation, improving our abilities and skills on international level, exchange and confrontation of ideas, practices and methods. Another results of this coperation were the followings; - Achieving new learning experiences, intercultural communication. - Civic engagement,common values and participation; - Experimenting new ways to attract children acquiring second language -Discovering new web 2.0 tools and informal paths of teacher's professional development; It carried out by combining sports and arts branches that activate the inner motivation of the students.Being a student-centered project, students' spirit of initiative, autonomy and creativity encouraged. Through their role , sport and art contributed to the enrichment of cultural exchanges, the values transmitted through sport and art helped to develop knowledge, motivation, skills, and training for individual effort. Students with limited opportunities experienced new environments to express themselves with an international study,benefit from the digital equipment and experiences.Teachers contributed to their professional lives .