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introduction
Our guidelines are: - Creating a reading environment that involves the whole educative community (teachers, students and neighbours) and inviting it to take part in all the reading-writing activities proposed. - Creating a reading environment in the whole educational centre by means of good and innovative practice.
- Developing new practices in adult education and sharing them among countries. - Developing innovative proposals and strategies to improve mother tongue knowledge, mainly among population in need. - Exploring methodological strategies and creative models to promote reading, reading and writing competences, and improving the interest in languages through the creation of school libraries suitable for the educative and social demands of our students (young people and adults). - Developing student’s ability of expression and critical analysis. - Improving teachers’ didactic methods, mainly those related to reading motivation. - Developing cooperation and dialogue among institutions.
brief information about each institution ASSOCIATION CULTURAL GANDALF
A bit of history From the 80’s Spain has experienced the emergence of an educational movement based on non-profit associations. This movement was based on social iniciative and it was closely linked to the development of working-class neighborhoods. It was necessary to put into practice the idea that education is the best guarantee for equal treatment and the main tool to improve opportunities and to attain social changes. The Asociación Cultural Gandalf was born in this context in 1985 in the neighborhood of Vallecas (Madrid). It is managed by 19 volunteers and 2 employees ready to develop an educative project for people with learning needs. Aims - To create education spaces for personal and community development. - To raise the neighbourhood’s cultural level. - To influence positively in social risk situations through education. - To promote communication as a tool for personal improvement.
Grundtvig project’s team - Teresa Hermida Sanz: Spanish and Geography and History teacher. She is in charge of scheduling and developing the project’s activities. - Rosa Rivero Rosa: New Technologies teacher. She is one of the persons in charge of putting the project’s activities into practice. - Luisa del Toro Aldehuela: New Technologies teacher. She is one of the persons in charge of putting the project’s activities in practice. - Antonio Martínez Tena: New Technologies teacher. He is one of the persons in charge of putting the project’s activities in practice. - Rosalía Poza Bartolomé: Spanish Language and Literature teacher. She is the project’s and team’s coordinator.
History The Training Centre Non Public School for Adults is a one-stop adult education center designed to respond to the changing educational and vocational needs as well as to the needs of business and industry. The Training Center has been existing from 5 years ago. We are situated in Gdańsk. The purpose of The Training Centre is to provide inexpensive, high-quality, state accredited education and vocational programs to prepare students for a higher education and advanced training or retraining for full or part-time employment. We also provide professional counseling and guidance as additional benefits to the program. Our Mission The mission of our school is to provide educational opportunities to all adults in the community. It will help them to improve their quality of life and to enhance their roles in their family, community and career.
- Grundtvig project’s team - Anna Barnicz: Headmaster, teacher of IT. - Renata Kolecka: Teacher of IT, maths teacher. - Krzysztof Szymlek: Director of the educational service.
History It was after the Velvet Revolution in the year 1989 when there arose the conditions for the creation of a Catholic University in Slovakia. It was born the first of June, 2000 with two faculties in Ružomberok: the Faculty of Pedagogy and the Faculty of Arts and Letters. In 2003 the Faculty of Theology was established in Košice. The Faculty of Health was established in 2005 in Ružomberok. The Faculty of Arts and Letters Nowadays the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the Catholic University in Ružomberok has about 1500 students and 10 departments. Its Center for Academic Instruction is the unit coordinating the implementation of the present Grundtvig project. Our aim Our aim is improving the quality of our student’s reading skills. We have set four major working areas: - Developing and implementing reading strategies. - Developing and implementing critical analysis and critical thinking strategies. - Developing and implementing strategies for stimulating creativity. - Developing and implementing methods for evaluating the reading process. The University Library The University Library serves all the four faculties of the Catholic University. It is also a public library where any adult may obtain his reader’s card. The library has a collection with about 105,000 exemplars including printed and electronic resources and about 7,500 readers.
Grundtvig project’s team - Anna Chlebničanová: She is a librarian and the former director of the University Library. She has in charge the organization of most of the project’s activities. - Eva Orthová: She teaches pedagogy. She is the person in charge of our student’s in-service training. Eva plays a key-role in disseminating the project’s outcomes. - Iveta Zmeková: She is the director of the University Library. A great part of the project is being implemented at this library. - Carlos Alonso Hidalgo Alfageme: He teaches Spanish and pedagogy. He coordinates the efforts of the team.
History It is a Commercial co-education high school. The education in our school is daytime and whole year. There are nearly 1500 students between at the age of 15 and 18 and nearly 90 teachers and 15 staff members in the school. Computing, Accounting, Tourism and Hotel Management are taught as main subjects. Vocational High School Education, face to face programmes and Computer usage courses have been carried out regularly. Most of our students attend their vocational education in their home town. They accomplish their in-service training at the huge and elite industries located in the area. - Information Technology - Office Management and Secretariate - Accountancy and Finance- Marketing and Retail - Management And Trade Secretariate - Computer Programming - Hotel Management Our Mission To give education at the highest quality level. To provide modern and flexible professional education according to the great Turkish leader Atatürk’s principles. Targets Training qualified staff. Our offer includes the newest technologies. Our trainees are aware of the knowledge that the private sector and govermental offices require.
Grundtvig project’s team - Ali sahin Sarizeybek: He is an English teacher and the project’s coordinator as well. - Senay Eygi: She is an English teacher. She is in charge of our school’s projects and has also experience with EU projects. - Muzaffer Sasmaz: He is our School Headmaster and he coordinates the official tasks dealing with our projects. - Halil Kayıkcı: He is our school’s Second Headmaster. He manages project meetings and helps in the development of the programmes. - Seyhan Çağlar: he has in charge involving students in the project and encouraging them to read more books.
ACTIVITY 1 - READING BOOKS IN THE CLASSES.  We all know most of the students unwilling to go to library for reading and spending time there. As a project team we offered twenty minutes reading activity in the classes everyday to our school administration and the school administration liked the idea. Students get their books from our school library and read in the classroom every day at a certain time. First week, we began the activity in the first lesson for twenty minutes and the second week the activity time changed into second lesson and went on the other weeks. That means, four weeks four different reading time in a month. This reading activity is being done not only by the students but also by the teachers.
ACTIVITY 2 - FAST READING TECHNICS We know that in Turkey people don’t like reading very much. This effects their school success in bad way. Only trying to read isn’t enough, reading fast and effectively is better for a student for a teacher and for everybody. So we developed this project. We shared it with the Provincial Directorate of National Education of MANISA. They were agreed.
ACTIVITY 3 - LIBRARY ACTIVITIES Sometimes it is very difficult to take the students in a library for reading books. What can be done to make them eager to go there ? We developed a very nice idea ! We all know how charming PCs and internet for school children so we supplied some computers with internet connection in the school library, we also present them some free drinks as well. Students come into the library for PCs and internet connection but at the same time they noticed they are in the a library and books all around !They began to touch and search books about their subjects.
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