MINUTES OF THE VISIT IN TURKEY
THE ROLE PLAYS
Every country performed its role plays on the 14th of May, Saturday. In the role plays, every country tried to demonstrate the differences of men and women in terms of choosing professions in their own cultural contexts. The dialogues were chosen to be simple so as to make those differences understandable for all. Moreover, through these role plays, the spectators had the chance to evaluate the past and the present situations in those distinctive cultural settings. Parent pressure in choosing professions was also shown in the role plays.
DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THE ROLE PLAYS
Discussions about the role plays by students were also carried out. The students were given the opportunity to discuss about the different aspects of the role plays during their trips and they took down notes about it. They wrote down what they have learnt about the topic from the role plays of the different countries. They also had the chance to ask and answer questions about those role plays.
FOLLOWING VISITS
After discussions about the dates with the coordinators of each country, the following dates were decided for Germany and Italy;
- Germany:14-19 OR 21-26 March 2012
- Italy:16-20 May 2012
- Possible Visit in Poland: October 2011
The dates were decided as to be the best dates for each of the partner countries.
THE TOPIC OF THE FOLLOWING VISIT
The topic of the following visit was decided as the following;
*What are the interests of boys and girls when choosing the subjects in education? Why do they choose certain subjects?
This question comes out from the objective number one which says: "To determine the interests of both genders in their educational lives in each local community". Through our role plays in the next visit, we are going to try to discover and make public the different interests of boys and girls while they are deciding for which subjects to choose at school. We will try to determine the differences and similarities in different cultures related to this topic. Despite the efforts done to abolish the differences between men and women in terms of choosing different subjects to study and thus the different professions to get by, the differences between men and women in terms of the above topics still exist.
The evaluation will be done after the visit in the participant countries. Thus the students will have more time to think and evaluate what they have witnessed and learnt in the visits to the partner countries.
POSSIBLE ACTIVITIES TO BE CARRIED OUT IN THE VISIT TO POLAND
As the coordinators of the five countries, we decided to do the following activities in the visit to Poland. Our activities will be carried out in two parts:
PART 1:Students wear traditional clothes to demonstrate them to the other participants . They may also sing a traditional song from their own country.
PART 2: Students wear normal clothes to show that all countries more or less look the same. They sing a song all together. Each country writes down lyrics to include them in the same song. The song will be decided by all the countries.
FINAL SUGGESTIONS
All the coordinators thanked each other for their precious opinions about the activities. Each wished success for the activities in the other meetings.
Every country performed its role plays on the 14th of May, Saturday. In the role plays, every country tried to demonstrate the differences of men and women in terms of choosing professions in their own cultural contexts. The dialogues were chosen to be simple so as to make those differences understandable for all. Moreover, through these role plays, the spectators had the chance to evaluate the past and the present situations in those distinctive cultural settings. Parent pressure in choosing professions was also shown in the role plays.
DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THE ROLE PLAYS
Discussions about the role plays by students were also carried out. The students were given the opportunity to discuss about the different aspects of the role plays during their trips and they took down notes about it. They wrote down what they have learnt about the topic from the role plays of the different countries. They also had the chance to ask and answer questions about those role plays.
FOLLOWING VISITS
After discussions about the dates with the coordinators of each country, the following dates were decided for Germany and Italy;
- Germany:14-19 OR 21-26 March 2012
- Italy:16-20 May 2012
- Possible Visit in Poland: October 2011
The dates were decided as to be the best dates for each of the partner countries.
THE TOPIC OF THE FOLLOWING VISIT
The topic of the following visit was decided as the following;
*What are the interests of boys and girls when choosing the subjects in education? Why do they choose certain subjects?
This question comes out from the objective number one which says: "To determine the interests of both genders in their educational lives in each local community". Through our role plays in the next visit, we are going to try to discover and make public the different interests of boys and girls while they are deciding for which subjects to choose at school. We will try to determine the differences and similarities in different cultures related to this topic. Despite the efforts done to abolish the differences between men and women in terms of choosing different subjects to study and thus the different professions to get by, the differences between men and women in terms of the above topics still exist.
The evaluation will be done after the visit in the participant countries. Thus the students will have more time to think and evaluate what they have witnessed and learnt in the visits to the partner countries.
POSSIBLE ACTIVITIES TO BE CARRIED OUT IN THE VISIT TO POLAND
As the coordinators of the five countries, we decided to do the following activities in the visit to Poland. Our activities will be carried out in two parts:
PART 1:Students wear traditional clothes to demonstrate them to the other participants . They may also sing a traditional song from their own country.
PART 2: Students wear normal clothes to show that all countries more or less look the same. They sing a song all together. Each country writes down lyrics to include them in the same song. The song will be decided by all the countries.
FINAL SUGGESTIONS
All the coordinators thanked each other for their precious opinions about the activities. Each wished success for the activities in the other meetings.
MINUTES OF THE VISIT IN SPAIN
February 23rd , Wednesday
Arrival to Madrid, mini-tour around one of the most important cities: La Castellana and coming back to Iniesta. Distribution of students with their host families.
February, 24th Thursday:
Visit of Cuenca: We were welcomed by Delegate of Education, Eugenio Alfaro, in The Science Museum. In the evening we visited “Ars Natura”, a Nature Museum. Afterwards, some free time and coming back to Iniesta.
February, 25th Friday:
Students and teachers prepare the performances and the stage in the Auditorium of Iniesta.
There is a presentation of the role plays by coordinator of the project and then he gives students and teachers a folder with some papers which include important pieces of news of the role plays. Moreover, these folders are used to write down whatever students have understood about the role plays.
The Role plays start at 9:15, Spain is the first country, Germany the second, and Turkey the third. There was a break afterwards, where students and teacher could try a very typical Spanish product: churros and hot chocolate.
After the break Italy and Poland perform their role plays. Afterwards, there is a closing ceremony where the Mayor of Iniesta gives a short speech.
February, 26th Saturday:
Students and teachers meet at the High School. The coordinators of the project are led to a classroom to deal with some important matters of the project and students are explained what activities they have to develop during the morning.
The coordinators meet to deal with the following topics:
First of all they start with the analysis about how the activities have been developed in each country. And if they have found any problems to develop them. Here, each coordinator gives their impressions about the first activities:
Germany said that they made a brainstorming of ideas before starting to write their dialogues, afterwards they used their ideas to write down the dialogues.
Poland said that they devoted a lot of time to write the dialogues, they said there wasn’t much time to do them.
Turkey said that they made a survey to get information to write down the dialogues. Moreover, they thought about asking parents to ask them for help, but they couldn’t do it because of lack of time. In the end, students didn’t like what they had written and their teacher wrote the whole dialogue.
Italy said that they didn’t have enough time to rehearse.
Spain said they found the problem to write the dialogues, they spent a lot of time to do it because they didn’t know about what to do it. They complained about not having the questionnaires that have said to be used at the beginning.
After the analysis the results of the questionnaires in Italy were shown by the coordinator of the project.
Moreover, the first products were presented: the Winning logo, which was the Italian one, the Theatre dictionary, and the posters of the visit.
The coordinator also showed his partners the Data Base he had created with all the addresses and important information about each student and teacher taking part in project.
They also made an evaluation of the activities done up to the moment. And they spoke about the dissemination of the project in the different countries. The evaluation of the activities done in Spain would be evaluated later in the same morning, everything had been prepared by a teacher in the computer rooms.
The dissemination of the Spanish visit was done by publishing a brochure in Spanish. Moreover, they used the posters that they had prepared to disseminate the visit, and they also sent some articles about the project to different newspapers.
They spoke too about the dates for the following meetings:
- Turkey: May from the 11th to the 15th.
- Germany: Three possible dates from 19th to 23rd October, from 9th to 13th November, and from 23rd to 27th November. They will decide the date in the meeting in Turkey.
- Italy: A possible date from the 28th March to 1st April 2012. it would in April 2012 and there may be a possible meeting in Poland done only by teachers.
- Poland: Possible meeting in July 2012. Only teachers.
The coordinator mentioned the European program E-Twinning, but they decided not to do it during this year, because they were really busy with all their work at that moment.
They also planned and organised the new tasks until the next meeting. They said that they would have to write new role plays to perform in Turkey, and Turkey would also have to prepare the poster to disseminate the visit in Turkey.
The topic of the following role plays was decided thanks to the objectives 2 and 8 from the project. Students must show in their role plays how women and men have got jobs that have always been for men and now they are being made by women, and vice versa.
No suggestions and doubts were done at the end of the meeting of the teachers.
Afterwards, teachers finished their meeting students explained everybody their conclusions about the role plays in power point presentations. This activity was really nice as teachers could see that their students had done a good job during the visit.
Once everything was finished they did the evaluation questionnaires.
February, 27th Sunday:
Students and teachers of the foreign countries left Iniesta in the morning.
Arrival to Madrid, mini-tour around one of the most important cities: La Castellana and coming back to Iniesta. Distribution of students with their host families.
February, 24th Thursday:
Visit of Cuenca: We were welcomed by Delegate of Education, Eugenio Alfaro, in The Science Museum. In the evening we visited “Ars Natura”, a Nature Museum. Afterwards, some free time and coming back to Iniesta.
February, 25th Friday:
Students and teachers prepare the performances and the stage in the Auditorium of Iniesta.
There is a presentation of the role plays by coordinator of the project and then he gives students and teachers a folder with some papers which include important pieces of news of the role plays. Moreover, these folders are used to write down whatever students have understood about the role plays.
The Role plays start at 9:15, Spain is the first country, Germany the second, and Turkey the third. There was a break afterwards, where students and teacher could try a very typical Spanish product: churros and hot chocolate.
After the break Italy and Poland perform their role plays. Afterwards, there is a closing ceremony where the Mayor of Iniesta gives a short speech.
February, 26th Saturday:
Students and teachers meet at the High School. The coordinators of the project are led to a classroom to deal with some important matters of the project and students are explained what activities they have to develop during the morning.
The coordinators meet to deal with the following topics:
First of all they start with the analysis about how the activities have been developed in each country. And if they have found any problems to develop them. Here, each coordinator gives their impressions about the first activities:
Germany said that they made a brainstorming of ideas before starting to write their dialogues, afterwards they used their ideas to write down the dialogues.
Poland said that they devoted a lot of time to write the dialogues, they said there wasn’t much time to do them.
Turkey said that they made a survey to get information to write down the dialogues. Moreover, they thought about asking parents to ask them for help, but they couldn’t do it because of lack of time. In the end, students didn’t like what they had written and their teacher wrote the whole dialogue.
Italy said that they didn’t have enough time to rehearse.
Spain said they found the problem to write the dialogues, they spent a lot of time to do it because they didn’t know about what to do it. They complained about not having the questionnaires that have said to be used at the beginning.
After the analysis the results of the questionnaires in Italy were shown by the coordinator of the project.
Moreover, the first products were presented: the Winning logo, which was the Italian one, the Theatre dictionary, and the posters of the visit.
The coordinator also showed his partners the Data Base he had created with all the addresses and important information about each student and teacher taking part in project.
They also made an evaluation of the activities done up to the moment. And they spoke about the dissemination of the project in the different countries. The evaluation of the activities done in Spain would be evaluated later in the same morning, everything had been prepared by a teacher in the computer rooms.
The dissemination of the Spanish visit was done by publishing a brochure in Spanish. Moreover, they used the posters that they had prepared to disseminate the visit, and they also sent some articles about the project to different newspapers.
They spoke too about the dates for the following meetings:
- Turkey: May from the 11th to the 15th.
- Germany: Three possible dates from 19th to 23rd October, from 9th to 13th November, and from 23rd to 27th November. They will decide the date in the meeting in Turkey.
- Italy: A possible date from the 28th March to 1st April 2012. it would in April 2012 and there may be a possible meeting in Poland done only by teachers.
- Poland: Possible meeting in July 2012. Only teachers.
The coordinator mentioned the European program E-Twinning, but they decided not to do it during this year, because they were really busy with all their work at that moment.
They also planned and organised the new tasks until the next meeting. They said that they would have to write new role plays to perform in Turkey, and Turkey would also have to prepare the poster to disseminate the visit in Turkey.
The topic of the following role plays was decided thanks to the objectives 2 and 8 from the project. Students must show in their role plays how women and men have got jobs that have always been for men and now they are being made by women, and vice versa.
No suggestions and doubts were done at the end of the meeting of the teachers.
Afterwards, teachers finished their meeting students explained everybody their conclusions about the role plays in power point presentations. This activity was really nice as teachers could see that their students had done a good job during the visit.
Once everything was finished they did the evaluation questionnaires.
February, 27th Sunday:
Students and teachers of the foreign countries left Iniesta in the morning.
MINUTES OF THE VISIT IN ITALY
THE FIRST MEETING
DATE:25th November
PARTICIPANTS: All members of the countries included in the project
THE PRESENTATIONS OF THE PARTICIPANT COUNTRIES
All the schools presented their schools and towns via the power point presentations and answered the questions about their town, school and educational system. In this way, all the members had the chance to gain information about the countries they are carrying out the project with.
OBJECTIVES-AGREEMENT
We discussed about the objectives of the project and talked about how we could realize them. All the participants put forward their ideas and the coordinator Juan gave information about the activities to be carried out to realize them. We decided that we should cooperate well with every single person in our project groups and we should be very careful while clarifying the details of the project to all the members of the groups.
METHODOLOGY
While implementing our project, we are going to stick to the following methodology and we will carry out the activities in the following steps:
THE IMPACT
For the students, it was decided that they will be put up in students’ houses. To be able to decide for who will stay with whom, a description for each student will be prepared and while deciding for the question above, this sheet of description will be taken into consideration. In this description, it will also be asked if they could host a boy or a girl. The host country will be responsible for hosting the students. The following questions will also be added to the description sheet we already have:
1) Can I host a girl too?
2) Can I share room with another one?
3) Do you have to take any medication?
4) Can you host two students in your house?
5) Are you a vegetarian and do you eat pork?
It was also decided that the host families will be given detailed information about what they will do while they are hosting the students. For example, ‘Will they serve dinner and breakfast?’, ‘Will they take the students for the meetings in the mornings?’ and so on.
THE SECOND MEETING
DATE:26th November
PARTICIPANTS: All members of the countries included in the project
WEB RESOURCES
THE DISTRIBUTION OF TASKS
We talked about which country should do what and which activities should be carried out in cooperation with the other partners. After long discussions, we decided for the following to be able to make every responsibility clear for each participant country:
THE THIRD MEETING
DATE:27th November
PARTICIPANTS: All members of the countries included in the project
In this meeting, we also decided for some details of the visits to the other countries. We also tried to fix the date for the visit to Turkey. The details are as the following:
THE DETAILS OF THE OTHER MEETINGS
LAST SUGGESTIONS
In this meeting, we also discussed for which questions to be included in the questionnaire. There were many suggestions from the teachers and here are some of them:
1-Could you co-operate well in your group? If yes/ or no why?
2-I can contribute to the project…?
A)I am good at ICT
B)I am good at social affairs
C)I am good at preparing costumes
3- Did you find English easy or difficult before starting the project? How do you feel now? We will have options 1-5.
4-How often do you visit our web-page?1-5
5-Why did you join the project?
Options A-to improve English
B-travel to new countries
C-to explore new cultures
D-to experience something new
(We will require the students to choose two options)
6-Do you find easy to find what you are looking for on our web page?
7-Where are you from?
8-In what scale do you get assistance or encouragement from your family? (We will want the students to grade this question from 1 to 5)
9-Have you ever participated in a role-play or theatre?
10-How did you feel about it if you participated in any kind of role-play?
11-Have you searched anything about the cultures of partner countries up to now? If yes about what…?
A-Music
B-People
C-Way of life
D-Educational system
E-Food
12-Have you ever heard about these kinds of projects before?
The questionnaire will be checked and developed by the coordinators of the partner schools. They will also try to get suggestions from the other colleagues and in this way the last version of the questionnaire will be prepared in this way.
THE END OF THE MEETINGS
The coordinator Juan thanked all the participants attended the meetings in Cagliari and he wished all the people good luck for all the activities which will be implemented during the whole project.
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DATE:25th November
PARTICIPANTS: All members of the countries included in the project
THE PRESENTATIONS OF THE PARTICIPANT COUNTRIES
All the schools presented their schools and towns via the power point presentations and answered the questions about their town, school and educational system. In this way, all the members had the chance to gain information about the countries they are carrying out the project with.
OBJECTIVES-AGREEMENT
We discussed about the objectives of the project and talked about how we could realize them. All the participants put forward their ideas and the coordinator Juan gave information about the activities to be carried out to realize them. We decided that we should cooperate well with every single person in our project groups and we should be very careful while clarifying the details of the project to all the members of the groups.
METHODOLOGY
While implementing our project, we are going to stick to the following methodology and we will carry out the activities in the following steps:
- First of all, questionnaires will be prepared and the teachers will guide the students while they are preparing questionnaires. The coordinators of the project, Juan, Ayhan, Christina and Daniela are going to have a meeting on the internet to decide for the details of the questionnaires. The exact date of the meeting will be determined in collaboration with all the coordinators.
- Secondly, for role plays, every school will be responsible for its own role-play and scenery. In each visit about 10 students will be taken abroad and they will be responsible for those role plays. The distribution of the roles and tasks will be done by the coordinator in each country. We also decided that the role plays should be prepared in a way they demonstrate characteristics of the cultural features of each country.
- After performances, questions will be prepared in order to discover the cultural features of each country, it is crucial for the activities to give an overall view of the cultural characteristics of each country.
- While implementing the activities decided before, the teachers will guide the students but they will not be so strict and they will not tell the students what to do all the time so as not to make them feel like as they are still in classrooms. Of course, they will be guided by the teachers, but in a way, they will be set free to carry out the activities. In this way, we aim at developing the creativity of the students participating in the project.
- At the end of each activity, questionnaires will be prepared so as to evaluate the effectiveness of each activity. The questionnaires will be made public through the web page of our project. The evaluation questionnaire will be prepared in different ways. For example, for activities, it will be asked questions like ‘How did you like…?’’and pictures for faces (happy, unhappy, neutral) will be prepared and so on…..We decided that every visit must be evaluated but this evaluation must be done by teachers.
- Finally, we will also try to do dissemination activities. If we have local newspapers and televisions, we will inform them about our activities and in this way we will try to make as many people as possible aware of our project. We will attach great importance to dissemination activities. Questionnaires will be sent to the coordinators by Juan and it will be checked by all the teachers who attended the meeting in Italy.
THE IMPACT
For the students, it was decided that they will be put up in students’ houses. To be able to decide for who will stay with whom, a description for each student will be prepared and while deciding for the question above, this sheet of description will be taken into consideration. In this description, it will also be asked if they could host a boy or a girl. The host country will be responsible for hosting the students. The following questions will also be added to the description sheet we already have:
1) Can I host a girl too?
2) Can I share room with another one?
3) Do you have to take any medication?
4) Can you host two students in your house?
5) Are you a vegetarian and do you eat pork?
It was also decided that the host families will be given detailed information about what they will do while they are hosting the students. For example, ‘Will they serve dinner and breakfast?’, ‘Will they take the students for the meetings in the mornings?’ and so on.
THE SECOND MEETING
DATE:26th November
PARTICIPANTS: All members of the countries included in the project
WEB RESOURCES
- PROJECT WEBPAGE: Juan presents the webpage of the project. All the participants partners will use it in order to get or exchange information from one countries to others. It will be used as a way of communication.
- EUROPEAN SHARED TREASURE: At the end of the first year, we will have to upload our products on this web page. For the common products, the coordinator will upload the products. But for individual products, each participant country will take over the duty. As decided before in the contact seminar in Munich, Juan and Ayhan will be responsible for the web page and they will share all the responsibilities about the web page.
- E-TWINNING. We decided that all the partners should register their institutions on the e-twinning. We can work on our project through this platform. At the end of two years, we can start a new project via this platform. In a way, this platform will ensure us to work on new ideas for new projects in the future.
- EUROPASS. We will get certificates via europass at the end of the first year. We will also get certificates for each visit.
THE DISTRIBUTION OF TASKS
We talked about which country should do what and which activities should be carried out in cooperation with the other partners. After long discussions, we decided for the following to be able to make every responsibility clear for each participant country:
- to upload all the products, Spain and Turkey will be responsible.
- For the brochure, Germany will be responsible and they will prepare the brochure for theatre words. Germany will send it to all countries to be translated by each country. The brochure will be printed and delivered to the students after translation. The first week of January will be the deadline to deliver the brochure to the students.
- All countries will prepare posters for the visits. In this way, the students will be made more enthusiastic about taking part in the activities to be implemented in the future and the visits will be made public more easily and in a more effective way.
- We will prepare a short leaflet in our native languages to give information about our project. It will be like a summary but everybody will be able to gain the necessary information about the project.
- Each country will prepare three role plays during the project in two years time. Each country will perform those three role plays and in the last visit, the best one will be performed in Italy. The topic of the first role plays will be the presents given on special days or festival in different countries as each country has such special days. The role play topics will be linked to the gender differences in a way. We will focus on the fact that girls and boys receive different gifts on different festivals. Also, the topic can be how boys and girls live the festivities. Roles of men and women for the festivities will also be discovered and presented to the participants of other countries via the role plays.
- We also decided that role plays should include a conflict between genders. They shouldn’t be like a description of the festival. In this way, the role plays will be more interesting and more enjoyable for both the performers and the viewers.
- All the host countries will prepare certificates for all the participants of the visits. In those sheets of paper, there should be the symbol of the host school, the logo of the European Union, signature of the headmaster of the host school and the stamp of the host school.
- Before Christmas, all the student cards will be prepared. This will be done for the students who will attend the visit in Spain. When they are finished by all countries, they will be sent to the host school in Spain.
- The logos will be prepared and will be uploaded to the web page. The students will vote for the best one and the most voted one will be the logo of the project for the whole two years. While voting, each country will collect the students and each country will vote for other schools’ logos giving points 1-4. The logo which gets the highest punctuation will be the winner.
- The coordinator will organize skype meetings with the partner schools. In this way, we are going to establish a good coordination and cooperation with the schools participating in the project.
- The host family will be responsible for hosting the students. The students who will attend the visits will take some gifts for families where they will be hosted. These gifts will not be expensive things but they will be things special to their local area.
- We are going to try to contact with the local newspaper, radios and televisions in order to disseminate our project. We will also contact with the local authorities.
- Before publishing anything, we will get permission from the parents of the students in the project group. This is very important for some countries because, according to the laws, it is not allowed to publish any picture of the students without getting permission from the parents first.
THE THIRD MEETING
DATE:27th November
PARTICIPANTS: All members of the countries included in the project
In this meeting, we also decided for some details of the visits to the other countries. We also tried to fix the date for the visit to Turkey. The details are as the following:
THE DETAILS OF THE OTHER MEETINGS
- SPAIN: 23-27 FEBRUARY 2010. MADRID AIRPORT (Flights in the morning will be preferred as Juan will take the participants with buses on the day arrived)
- TURKEY: 4-8 or 11-15 MAY 2010. ANKARA ESENBOGA AIRPORT (Flights in the morning will be preferred as Ayhan will take the participants with buses on the day arrived)
- GERMANY: 2nd or 3rd of NOVEMBER of 2011. NO MORE DETAILS
- ITALY: APRIL 2012. NO MORE DETAILS
LAST SUGGESTIONS
In this meeting, we also discussed for which questions to be included in the questionnaire. There were many suggestions from the teachers and here are some of them:
1-Could you co-operate well in your group? If yes/ or no why?
2-I can contribute to the project…?
A)I am good at ICT
B)I am good at social affairs
C)I am good at preparing costumes
3- Did you find English easy or difficult before starting the project? How do you feel now? We will have options 1-5.
4-How often do you visit our web-page?1-5
5-Why did you join the project?
Options A-to improve English
B-travel to new countries
C-to explore new cultures
D-to experience something new
(We will require the students to choose two options)
6-Do you find easy to find what you are looking for on our web page?
7-Where are you from?
8-In what scale do you get assistance or encouragement from your family? (We will want the students to grade this question from 1 to 5)
9-Have you ever participated in a role-play or theatre?
10-How did you feel about it if you participated in any kind of role-play?
11-Have you searched anything about the cultures of partner countries up to now? If yes about what…?
A-Music
B-People
C-Way of life
D-Educational system
E-Food
12-Have you ever heard about these kinds of projects before?
The questionnaire will be checked and developed by the coordinators of the partner schools. They will also try to get suggestions from the other colleagues and in this way the last version of the questionnaire will be prepared in this way.
THE END OF THE MEETINGS
The coordinator Juan thanked all the participants attended the meetings in Cagliari and he wished all the people good luck for all the activities which will be implemented during the whole project.
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