This meeting

Welcome in Turkey

Before C2, Turkish team plan the activities for the mobility: PowerPoint presentations, games, music and dance performances, presentation of traditional costumes, traditional dishes prepared by parents. The events are included in the mobility schedule. The activities on the first and last day, notably for professors and pupils who are actively involved, will moderately influence the usual educational program. The teachers involved in the project will have to be supplanted by their school colleagues. The seminars will be performed in centers, in such a way not to disrupt class functioning. Participants will be divided proportionally for class participation events.

The exchange is made up of seminars and introductions prepared by Turkish pupils, teacher meetings to analyze the characteristics of the Turkish schooling system, attendance to classes, cultural activities, visits to places of historical and geographical interest where local students will act as guides, evaluation practices and leisure time activities.

The welcoming ceremony – musical and dance performances, presentation of traditional costumes.
Presentation of host the school – prepared by the pupils.
Presentation of the objectives and of the timetable of the mobility by the teachers.
Students receive their journals.
Ice-breaker activities for learners and the initial meeting for teachers.
Application of initial evaluation questionnaires about the Turkish culture and system of education.

Attending classes.
Workshop 1 – Turkish Geography (delivered by students).
Presentation of a class which had prepared rap songs about mathematics with original lyrics.
Evaluation 1 – media applications to assess the participants’ acquired knowledge.

Workshop 2 – Turkish History.
Evaluation 2 – online tools.
Another class used classical music to teach subjects. All punctuated by body movements.
Workshop 3 – Traditional music and dance – students and teachers attend live performances. Turkish students teach participants traditional dances and sing together a famous song from their culture.

Attending music classes.
Workshop 4: The hosts present a short song from the Turkish traditional repertoire.
Participants work in groups to debate the theme, characters, symbols identified. Then they are divided into groups and conceive a poster/a cover for the song.
Students present their work.
Another class has used plastic cups to perform rhythmic sounds. Other classes performed rhythmic activities with simple different materials…
Cultural evening students' parents are invited to see what has been accomplished throughout the week, traditional dishes are brought and tasted.

Final assessment.
Students present their project journals.
Discussion about the characteristics of the Turkish school system that teachers and students have found interesting.
Certification.