Building a small enterprise at school - Promoting ..
Building a small enterprise at school - Promoting our country abroad
Start date: Sep 1, 2015,
End date: Aug 31, 2018
PROJECT
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The program "Building a small enterprise at school - promoting our country above" is a program based on team work for primary and elementary school students. Its aim is to help the students discover their local culture and promote it using IT Technologies, enhance the use of the English language and work in Workshops lead by teachers; improve management skills and entrepreneurship. The topics at the Workshops will include Tourism, History and Mythology, Healthy living, Intellectual creations based on the National Literature and Poetry, National Art and music, local environmental issues, Accepting Diversity issues, Sports and Adventure and the Use of IT Technologies in everyday life. Each Workshop will conclude in three months producing knowledge on the local culture, material relevant to the targets which will disseminate to the partner schools and the local community. The pupils will learn how to work as a team in a small enterprise, evaluate their product together with their leader teachers and disseminate it. Among the aims are The enhancement of the use of Foreign languages along with the familiarization of the use of IT Technologies.
A whole class of pupils aged 6 to 15 can work at the Workshops for at least an hour a week for a period of three months. Totally 9 Workshops on the topics provided will give the chance to at least 9 classes of students discover their local culture, work in teams promoting it to the partner schools and a number of them can travel abroad to visit the partner schools along with their Leader Teachers in order to share their experience and learn about the diversified needs of other cultures belonging to the European Family of nations.
The Activities will include the phase of Discovering and getting Information for the topic discussed at each Workshop. Teams will be formed in order to work on promoting each subject; educational visits to local sites of interesting relevant to the topic will be made. Interviews, material gathering, searching and developing ways of discovering deeper each topic will be made. During the Transnational meetings Activities will include sharing the gained experience and achieving more ways to disseminate the final product of the Workshops of all participating countries.
Working as a team, achieving a common product, helping to evaluate it and disseminate it will create young "businessmen" having a good idea of how enterprises can work based on a plan and the team work. Identifying themselves as part of a team and a whole process will strengthen the consciousness of belonging and help students achieve a higher level of self esteemed.
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