Comenius European Identity

1. ComeniusEuropean Identity

2. “Alessandro Volta” Schools Bari - Italy • General information about the project • Specific "A. Volta" information • about the school • about school strategies • about final products

3. General information about the project: • The partners • Cyprus:Lykeio Latsion – Lefkosia. The leader • Latvia:Rīgas 33 vidusskola – Riga • Norway:Kårvik skolen - Kårvikhamn • Italy:Scientific Lyceum "Alessandro Volta" – Bari • Lithuania:Alytaus dailiųjų amatų mokyka – Alytaus

4. General information about the school: Technical Institute - for business - for Electronics High school Science APULIA BARI SEAFRONT

5. Long-term objective 1) Discovering and identifying each other’s special characteristics regarding the culture and the lifestyles to fight the stereotypes, break clichés and combat racism, xenophobia, discrimination, chauvinism and intolerance. 2) Exploration of the origin of the Europeans and appreciation of the European heritage. 3) Promote Freedom, Tolerance and Democracy through practical intercultural activities. 4) Cultivation learners’ transversal competences of learning to learn, of researching and assessing, and of contributing to build a “Europe of Knowledge”.

6. Why to participate • To research European Identity. • To act against racism, xenophobia, discrimination chauvinism and intolerance • To develop friendship and sharing of a common European dream. • To involve students in creative and innovative activities in various subjects (history, culture, lifestyles, language. • To promote the cooperation between teachers and students, the concept of active citizenship • To improve teachers’ and students’ linguistic and ICT competences • To cooperate with students’ parents and the local authorities and involve them in decision making as well as encourage them to support the actions. • To encourage students with disabilities or socio-economic problems to participate in the project. • To involve students from minorities encouraging the equal opportunities to work on the project and take part in mobility. • To develop the culture of rights and duties in a European dimension and disseminate the knowledge of the European treaties and rule.

7. What to do Teachers from each organization will be trained in this “drama approach” and put this method into practice with their students of all ages. It is also a proposal to develop self-confidence, creativity, participation and social skills.

8. How to do During the visits, the participants will learn a number of new activities based on actor-training and drama resources provided by the host institution. After that, they will train their own teachers in these new activities, adapt them to their own needs, and finally, the teachers will put them into practice in the classroom. All the ideas, adaptations, suggestions and different practices will be compile the “TEACHER MANUAL” which will be translated into the languages of the partnership: English, French, Greek, Italian, Lithuanian, Spanish and Turkish.

9. “A. Volta” presentation “Alessandro Volta” schools provide morning and evening courses. In the evening courses we have adult and second chance education so students have specific needs. The school area is generally an economically disadvantaged one because in the South of Italy. The students come from the low-middle class, many of them are workers and pay directly for their instruction. The majority of them abandoned school many years ago and the other have one or more drop out in their scholastic career. So they need specific didactic methodologies. School policy is based on a social constructivist methodology. All students have to “produce” an educational/technical object each 2 months containing arguments from all subjects organized in a logical map that’s the index of the project.

10. How to do The media to use in producing the project are various, from drawing to collage, from textual on paper to hypertext, etc. Now we hope to introduce the drama like one of the media to realize the formative project. The chosen theme: “Farm Holiday” come from the main economic sectors of the region: Tourism and Agriculture. We intend to give large importance to foods, fitness, beauty, sport, etc. and the recovery of many country farm disseminated in Apulia both near the sea (Adriatic) and on the internal hills (Murgia). The participation in the European project will be for the school an ache to enlarge the mental perspective of our students

11. The next steps • Create the links among the keywords bulding a map • Add eventually new keywords in the map Natural foods Animals Sustainable Development Farm Works Farm Holydays Agriculture Tourism Plants Life in the Farm Beauty Nature Safety Sport

12. The next steps 2 • Look for the themes about the keywords among the subjects and write in green in the map • Look for the keywords in the internet and write in red in the map • Ask to the teacher to explain the subject's arguments referring to the map • Write a simpleprojectto build and manage a holiday farm

13. The next step 3 • Study the drama methodology • Use the drama methodology to learn about the theme