C. PROJECT CONTENT and ORGANISATION

1. What are the concrete aims of the project and its expected impact on the participants and other interested parties (on the pupils, teachers, institutions, local community, wider educational community)?

The two main aims of the project are:

1. Improve teacher’s knowledge and cualification to bring children into reading as a way to develop themselves.

2. Develop knowledge about Europe both in teachers and students mainly regarding to traditional characters and literature.

In order to get this goals we will cooperate with other schools and exchange materials and information to make new materials that we can use and improve with our own students. The project will include working with teachers but also with school library and the use teachers do of it.

2. Which activities do you intend to carry out in the course of the project?

The suggested secuence to work for the three years project is:

I.- Knowing each other.- The way pleasure reading is included in the curricula of different countries and in activities of the European schools. Abilities for reading of children with different ages. What teachers and parents think that children should read. Using new technology in reading.

II.- Bringing children to pleasure reading.- Children literature (traditional and modern) in different countries. Games to play about reading. Developing school libraries. Reading in school – reading out of school. Making our own books. Parents and grandparents cooperation.

III.- Creating materials to read.- Intercultural books with cooperation from different schools and different cultures within schools. Children reading in internet. Materials and methods to help teachers.

We hope to have two international visits a year to organize and evaluate the way the project is going on.

3. What kind of end product(s) do you intend to produce?

· Reports on the way different schools from different countries cope with reading.

· Cds with material for children to read in different languages.

· Cds with teacher materials to improve the way we bring children to read.

· Seminars to be held where we can share our experience with other teachers and schools not directly involved in the project.

· Web materials in each school web-page or in a new web site.

4. How do you intend to evaluate the progress of the project and its impact on the participating pupils and teachers, the participating institutions and, where relevant, on the local community?

By using questionnaires and surveys during the project which will be sent to participants (teachers, pupils, parents and other members of school community). Also through the materials we are able to make and use, and knowing the progress that the students of each school make in reading.

5. How do you intend to disseminate the results, experience and end products amongst the participating institutions, other institutions and the local community?

By cooperation with Teacher Training Centres of each country and sharing our experience to other teachers in and out of participant school. We hope to hold and participate in meetings and seminars. We will find the way to send the final Cds and printed materials to other schools and educational institutions. We should arrange meetings and talks with parents associations and school community in general as well as Local libraries in each city

6. What kind of specific measures, if any, do you intend to take within the project to:

§ facilitate the participation of pupils with special educational needs?

§ ensure equal opportunities for the participation of female and male pupils and staff?

§ promote intercultural education, and/or to help combat racism/xenophobia?

§ facilitate the participation of pupils/schools who/which are disadvantaged for socio-economic or other reasons?

§ facilitate the participation of disabled pupils and staff?

§ enhance the participation of pupils from ethnic and other minority groups, in particular children of migrant workers, gypsies, travellers and occupational travellers?

Children with special needs of education are already integrated in our school so we will keep the general organization but making materials to read which are suitable to them as web as creating a nice atmosphere for them to work with others. We will be very careful in selecting reading materials which help to teach human values and rights and make all pupils learn from others. To improve the integration of immigrants we will work also with traditions, language and books from the countries they come from, even if they are not the same as participating in the project or are not European countries. Same kind of work we intend to do with other cultural minorities represented in the school groups.

7. Please describe the role of all participating institutions and explain how an effective cooperation and distribution of tasks will be ensured.

At the beginning of each school year we will have a meeting in order to establish the goals and organization for this year. Then each school will work it own way according to goals, materials, pupils, times,… established together. Each school will have its coordinator who will keep very close contact with coordinators of other schools. Once every three months all coordinators will send reports and other materials to the general coordinator of the project who will show them in the web site.

By the end of each school year we will have another meeting to evaluate the work done and give ideas to improve the project during the following years.

8. Does the project intend to use information and communication technologies ? If yes, what kind of technologies ? How and to what extent will they be used?

Internet, E-mail, video conference,... will be used to have communication among different schools of the project, but also as working materials and work results. We need to improve teachers knowledge in using new technologies and the equipment of schools.