Project Description
About the ERASMUS+ Project (No. 2015-1-TR01-KA219-022092_2) with the topic: “From Ancient to Modern: Challenging Obstacles at a stroke with sport” (from the submitted Project Proposal)
Students of the age 10-12 will join this project. Today these children make less sport and watch T.V. much more. They play computer games without doing physical activities. Obesity is increasing in our schools and around the world day by day, so we need to do something to move them. In addition to that, there is a big problem about early school leaving rates. When we did need analysis, we saw that, there is 15% of school absenteeism in our school. Then we examined the qualities of these students, we found out that they are from divorced families or disabled students. They are unhappy and feel alone in their families. This mode affects their school life and their achievements, too. They said that they do not want to come school and they want to play computer games staying at home. The school does not pay much attention and interest of them. Moreover, they do not attend any sports activities except physical education lessons, although it is an important inquiry for them. They do not know anything about traditional sports or background information about their ancestor sports. Also they do not know about sports from other cultures and they do not have the chance to see qualities of other nations from Europe. After absenteeism, they get far away from academic issues and become unsuccessful. This situation brings early school leaving, especially when they go to high school. As a result of that, Turkey is on the first order of the Early School Leaving rate of European Commission report (http://ec.europa.eu/education/policy/strategic-framework/doc/esl-group-report_en.pdf). Greece is on the seventeenth of thirty-four countries.
Considering these needs, our target group is 10-12 year-old students who have divorced families or who are disabled or who are disadvantaged, ones whose absence and probability of early school leaving is much higher than the other students. In the context of this rationale, the project objectives are the following:
Students of the age 10-12 will join this project. Today these children make less sport and watch T.V. much more. They play computer games without doing physical activities. Obesity is increasing in our schools and around the world day by day, so we need to do something to move them. In addition to that, there is a big problem about early school leaving rates. When we did need analysis, we saw that, there is 15% of school absenteeism in our school. Then we examined the qualities of these students, we found out that they are from divorced families or disabled students. They are unhappy and feel alone in their families. This mode affects their school life and their achievements, too. They said that they do not want to come school and they want to play computer games staying at home. The school does not pay much attention and interest of them. Moreover, they do not attend any sports activities except physical education lessons, although it is an important inquiry for them. They do not know anything about traditional sports or background information about their ancestor sports. Also they do not know about sports from other cultures and they do not have the chance to see qualities of other nations from Europe. After absenteeism, they get far away from academic issues and become unsuccessful. This situation brings early school leaving, especially when they go to high school. As a result of that, Turkey is on the first order of the Early School Leaving rate of European Commission report (http://ec.europa.eu/education/policy/strategic-framework/doc/esl-group-report_en.pdf). Greece is on the seventeenth of thirty-four countries.
Considering these needs, our target group is 10-12 year-old students who have divorced families or who are disabled or who are disadvantaged, ones whose absence and probability of early school leaving is much higher than the other students. In the context of this rationale, the project objectives are the following:
- Decreasing school absenteeism from 15 %to 5%. Decreasing from 25 days per a term for a student who has high absenteeism to 5 days per a term.
- Taking attention of students to school by making school a place more joyful.
- To gain self- confidence to disabled and disadvantaged students (Increasing rate of self-confidence 20%).
- Increasing concentration on a point, motivation and positive attitudes toward school (Increasing rate of motivation and attitude 20% positively).
- Teaching eight different and unknown sports; mangala, matrak, hemsball (Turkish sports), discus, javelin, long-jump with weight, running and wrestling (ancient Greek style of them) to students and taking them from in front of the computer (Decreasing computer using time for playing game 5 hours to 1 hour per day).
- By the help of sport increasing social relationships, integrating disabled and disadvantaged students to society and decreasing obesity problems.
- To introduce a different nation by showing its similarities and differences and by giving chance of visiting a foreign country.
- Teaching old Turkish, Ottoman and Ancient Greek sports at least 878 pupils 42 teachers, introduce and disseminate them at least 3020 person and different nations all around the world.
- Gain into setting goals and problem solving skills, in order to have life long lasting multidisciplinary skills by teaching strategy developing.
- Mathematic achievement to be increased by 10%
- Teaching about the culture of "fair play"
- With the assisting framework of these objectives, confront the decrease of early school leaving.