M.E.T.E.C.& C.W.: Meet Europe through Educational Comics & Creative Writing

The focus of the project is promoting the acquisition of academic, emotional and social skills and competences of our students by using creative writing techniques and comics creation as an effective way of teaching in classes in order to motivate them to learn, with a particular emphasis on English language

The projects aim is to find the effectiveness of comics as medium for learning and development, and how not only the usage of comic but also the creation of it, will help young people study better, more willingly and more eagerly, in order to motivate students and prevent early school leaving.

This project is mainly addressed to students facing difficulties (educational, health, emotional, economic, cultural, social) that we want to motivate by providing a meaningful and concrete learning context which will promote acquisition of skills and help reduce disparities in learning outcomes. In this connection it can also be considered an effective tool to limit school failure and consequently to fight against early school leaving.  It is also open to students willing to increase their competence in English language, interested in comics' creation, in digital technologies.

"Comics" will be an activity based on the assumption of roles and simulation of real life situations and stimulate the use of communication in a foreign language. The creation of comics becomes also a valuable tool to foster relationships because, working in group, students are faced with the problem of the relationship with the others, starting with the respect for diversity and the desire to communicate emotions. We use comics in order to teach school subjects, in an innovative way, and English language will be the basic language that will be used in their stories, so competences in foreign language will be improved. Students will also learn and use open ICT tools and software which will help them develop basic skills especially the ones related to ICT and foreign languages.

The project will be fixed the maximum number of 50 students in each country which will possibly be divided in smaller groups. We intend to create a student-centered, inclusive learning environment and to implement contexts based on Cooperative Learning, non-Formal learning and CLIL methodology to stimulate learning language through creative writing and comics' creation activities.

The main idea for the planned activities is the smooth and successful escalation of the integration of the creation of comics into the educational process.

The activities to be carried out include: Creating logo, poster, motto of the project;  Creative writing workshops on how to build a story; Comics workshop to discover of digital tools for comics' creation;  Best photo of the Project.

PROJECT PARTNERS

Greece                        7th Vocational School Of Thessaloniki   

 Italy                            Instituto Istruzione Secondaria Superiore E. Fermi

Turkey                        Atakent Şehit Selcuk Paker Anatolian High School

Czech Republic          Gymnazium Jana Blahoslava Ivancice, Prispevkova Organizace

Portugal                      Escola Secundária Campos de Melo, Covilhã

Latvia                         Aluksne Municipality`s Secondary School