HEALTHY MINDS FOR HAPPY LIVES - I.I.S. ELIANO LUZZATTI PALESTRINA - IIS - Eliano Luzzatti

HEALTHY MINDS FOR
   HAPPY LIVES
   I.I.S. ELIANO LUZZATTI
          PALESTRINA

Il Progetto
«Healthy minds for healthy lives» è un progetto Erasmus+ Azione
Chiave 2 – Partenariati strategici
I Partenariati strategici fanno parte dell’Azione Chiave 2,
Cooperazione per l’innovazione e lo scambio di buone pratiche. Sono
progetti di cooperazione transnazionale di piccola e larga scala che
offrono l’opportunità alle organizzazioni attive nei settori istruzione,
formazione e gioventù, a imprese, enti pubblici, organizzazioni della
società civile etc. di cooperare al fine di
• attuare e trasferire pratiche innovative a livello locale, regionale,
   nazionale ed europeo
• modernizzare e rafforzare i sistemi di istruzione e formazione
• sostenere effetti positivi e di lunga durata sugli organismi
   partecipanti, sui sistemi e sugli individui direttamente coinvolti.

Le scuole partecipanti
Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Noblistow Polskich
Rydułtowy – Poland

Spojena skola
Bratislava – Slovakia

Chastna profilirana gimnazia s chuzhdoezikovo obuchenie
"Chelopech"BG412 – Bulgaria

Basogretmen Ataturk Anadolu Lisesi
Merkez – Turkey

Analisi dei Bisogni
Unfortunately, schools on every level seem to neglect the issue of
students’ mental health. There are a lot of activities that educate
students about the importance of a healthy diet, physical activity etc
but little is being done about young people’s mental health. The older
they get, the more risk factors there are around them and the more
help they need. High school students are surrounded by risk factors all
the time… they have complicated relationships with their peers, they
are often victims of aggression and cyberbullying, they experience
their first loves, they find it hard to get on with their parents, they are
tempted by the material world which offers them a lot of easy but
costly pleasures, they live in virtual world of social networking sites
which make it hard for them to face reality. At the same time schools
concentrate on the results, tests, exams. No action is taken to support
students in their effort to fight the risks, deal with problems and
stresses of everyday student life.

Gli obiettivi
• to develop students' and teachers' competences
• to raise students', teachers' and parents' awareness of the
  importance of mental health
• to reduce early school leaving making schools more student-
  friendly places
• to teach students how to look after their mental health
• to teach teachers how to recognise and help their students'
  problems
• to change the educational methods and materials used by
  teachers

Le mobilità
Sono previste due transnational mobilities, cioè mobilità con soli
docenti. La prima si effettuerà in Polonia (e sarà il primo meeting
del progetto); la seconda in Turchia (ultimo meeting del
progetto)

Inoltre, sono previste tre short term meetings con la presenza di
docenti e alunni in: Bulgaria, Slovacchia e Italia.

Il progetto ha una durata biennale e ha ufficialmente inizio il 1°
settembre 2016 e terminerà il 31 agosto 2018

Le mobilità
Le mobilità con la presenza di studenti e docenti prevedono la
partecipazione di due docenti e sei alunni e avrà la durata di
cinque giorni.

Rappresentano momenti di scambio educativo e culturale e sia i
docenti che gli studenti saranno impegnati in attività diverse che
verranno valutate e avranno l’obiettivo di produrre materiali utili
alla disseminazione.

Le attività
• A1 - introducing the project in partner schools
• A2 - creating Erasmus+ corners in each of the schools
• A3 - international competition for the logo of the project
• A4 - starting the project on the e-twinning platform
• A5 - creating a FB group (students & teachers taking part in
  the project – sharing info about the project, tasks,
  announcements, getting to know each other)
• A6 -introducing schools and towns on Twin Space (e-twinning
  platform) – films, presentations etc
• A7 -online quiz on partner countries (each partner prepares a
  quiz about their country for the partners)

Le attività
• A8 - integration workshops for students in each partner school
  (on each form, each level – topics and methods depending on
  the groups’ needs and interests) (twice a year)
• A9 - a training session for teachers in each partner school – e-
  twinning platform, how it works, its functions, courses for
  teachers etc
• A10 - a celebration of World Mental Health Day (10th
  October each year) in each partner school including lectures
  by specialists on mental health, workshops for students,
  teachers and parents, meetings with psychiatrists or/and
  psychologist, a mini marathon in the streets of the towns etc..

Le attività
• A11 - Teachers workshops in each partner school (teachers
  who took part in the training meeting in Poland teach their
  colleagues what they have learnt)
• A12- creating a virtual classroom in each school for its
  teachers where they can upload useful materials they have
  created, links, online games, quizzes, tests, videos,
  presentations
• A13- announcing the competition MY PERFECT CLASSROOM
  – students choose a place at school they don't like / find
  depressing and stressful and design its redecorating, the best
  design is put through later on

Le attività
A14 - workshops/classes on safe Internet use, cyberbullying,
hating (twice a year)
A15 - art workshops – WE SAY NO TO THE LANGUAGE OF
HATERED –each class creates a poster
A16 - SAFER INTERNET DAY (in February each year)
celebrations (short performances, films, debates, lectures, a
letter to a hater – all classes write their own letters to be
published on the Internet , an exhibition of the posters created
before SID and voting for the best one, IT workshops – DON’T BE
A HATER – infographics/avatars etc, announcing the winner of
My Perfect Classroom competition in each school (the best
project is chosen in students’ voting)

Le attività
A17- MAKE A GOOD CHOICE -job-oriented workshops
(workshops aimed at showing students different job
opportunities and career paths) (twice a year)
A18 - meetings with students and graduates of different
faculties close to the educational profiles of the schools
A19 - a series of classes dealing with stress (how stress affects
students’ health and general wellbeing, how to fight stress
effectively)
A20- preparing a film report about the most popular ways of
easing off stress among young people

Le attività
A21 -creating the TOP 10 list of best books/films/games/bands they
find valuable and important in their lives - each school sends their
suggestion to the project coordinator who created a list, next the
students of all project schools vote (FB or other tool) , as a result a list
of TOP10 is created
A22- creating school media-library (consisting of TOP10 choices) - each
school enriches their libraries with the chosen positions so that the
students can always have access to the positions they like and need,
each school can add more titles known and important for their own
culture/language only
A23 - an official opening of the refurbished classroom (My Perfect
Classroom project)
A24 - ICT workshops for teachers covering new
apps/methods/programs useful in education (a kind of update)
.

Le attività
A25 - reports of the visits in each partner school,
A26 - enriching the schools’ sports base with some new
equipment chosen according to the students needs
(questionnaire) e.g. aerobics equipment, Nordic walking etc
A27 - students prepare short anti-hating video ads
A28 - open lessons for parents and other teachers with the use
of ICT tools at each partner school (teachers prepare lessons
that show the use of new technologies in education, and invite
parents, their colleagues and teachers from other schools, then
the methods and tools are discussed among teachers who share
their opinions and experiences)

Le attività
A29 - cultural visits in host regions
A30 - dissemination activities (articles, newsletters, online
updates, interviews, leaflets etc)
A31 - uploading relevant data on the project website and
individual schools sites (after each project tasks has been
accomplished, after each project meetings)
A32 - evaluation activities (questionnaires, interviews,
observations etc)

Metodologia
All activities are students' centered as their focus is on their
needs and interests.

Il work team
                Docenti di
Inglese
Scienze Umane (psicologia, filosofia)
Arte
Sostegno
Informatica
Educazione Fisica
Italiano (geostoria, storia)
Diritto ed economia
Costruzioni e topografia
Finanza

"KEEP YOUR MIND BUSY.
     FIGHTING STRESS WILL BE
              EASY"

MEETING IN BULGARIA

MEETING IN BULGARIA
During the five-day meeting the following activities will take place:
• integration workshops held in international groups of students and teachers
• guests take part in lessons at the host school (these will be different subjects lessons
  conducted by Bulgarian teachers with the use of ICT materials prepared by Bulgarian
  students/teachers)
• lessons for Bulgarian and guest students conducted by guest teachers from Poland,
  Slovakia, Italy and Turkey
• trips to Sofia and Plovdiv to let the foreign guests have an insight into the reality of
  Bulgarian life and culture
• presentations of the video reports about the most popular ways of easing off stress among
  young people prepared by students at their schools before the visit
• workshops FIND YOUR WAY TO FIGHT STRESS (each partner school prepares and holds one
  workshop – kinds of workshops will be chosen according to the needs and interests of
  students (questionnaires will be done before the meeting) e.g. art / chess / cooking etc.)
• within THE EXCHANGE OF GOOD PRACTICES the Bulgarian partner will show the partners
  the theory and practice of using Edmodo - the guest teachers will have a chance to observe
  the tool being used during the lessons led by Bulgarian teachers, there will be workshops
  for the teachers on why and how to use it

"ACTIVE BODY=HEALTHY MIND"

MEETING IN SLOVAKIA

MEETING IN SLOVAKIA
During the meeting the following activities will take place:

• integration workshops held in international groups of students and teachers
• guests take part in open lessons of Physical Education and other lessons at the
  host school lessons conducted by guest teachers held for Slovak students mostly
• trips - Small Karpatian /walking tour/, Červený Kameň /Red Stone castle/ and
  ceramic workshop, the Old city Bratislava
• film workshops – SUICIDE ROOM (project students will watch the film together
  and then have workshops meant to discuss the film and its message which is
  teenage depression, hiding in a virtual world, loneliness in todays world)
• mini Olympic Games held in the playground of Mladá Garda - various sport
  disciplines: running 100 m, 800 m, 3 000 m, long jump, shot put- both, students
  and teachers from each country will participate, each country will also
  participate in the organization and evaluation of all sport activities
• within THE EXCHANGE OF GOOD PRACTICES – Slovak students and teachers will
  show guest students and teachers how practical classes are organized at their
  school and how much satisfaction can be drown from handicrafts

“CYBER AGRESSION IS NOT MY
           FASHION”

MEETING IN ITALY

MEETING IN ITALY
During the meeting the following activities will take place:
• integration workshops for both, guest and host students and teachers
• guests take part in lessons at the host school
• lessons by guest teachers held for Italian students
• trips- walking city tour of Palestrina with a taste of its food specialties, Rome city
  tour by bus: the Colosseum, Piazza Venezia, Fontana di Trevi, Pantheon and the
  Vatican,
• presentations of video footage from the previous year Safer Internet Day
  celebrations in each school
• IT workshops – creating infographics and other graphic materials to be used as a
  protest to cyberbullying ( creating a collection/base of such materials)
• designing and creating a leaflet for Internet users of all ages DON’T BE A VICTIM,
  REACT TO HATING (working in international groups)
• Who is a hater? – a meeting with a psychologist to work out a psychological
  profile of a hater and to find a trace of a hater in the participants themselves
• presentation of the materials brought to Italy (anti-hating mini- videos to be
  uploaded on YT or other virtual space)

MEETING IN ITALY
Within THE EXCHANGE OF GOOD PRACTICES the Italian partner
will show the partners how to engage students in voluntary
work (volunteering for Special Olympics) and the Italian
students themselves will share their experiences with their
peers from partner schools), the project students and teachers
will take part in an event called "Sweet Sunday" (with the help
of the association “No Fronteers” the Italian partner will
organise a workshop called “Sweet Sunday” which has been
organised for two years and its aim is to involve disabled boys
and girls in pizza and bread making in which they are supported
by volunteers)

Distribuzione dei compiti
The Bulgarian, Italian and Slovak partners will be responsible for
organising and holding the short term students and teachers’
meetings in their towns and schools and realising the project
tasks planned for the meetings.
Moreover, the Italian partner’s task will be to control the
project e-twinning site while the Bulgarian partner will
cooperate with the coordinator to handle the project website.

The dissemination tools and
       resources are:

La disseminazione
•   SCHOOL MAGAZINES
•   PROJECT NEWSLETTERS
•   ERASMUS+ CORNERS
•   PROJECT EXHIBITIONS
•   LOCAL NEWSPAPERS
•   WORKSHOPS
•   ERASMUS+ PLATFORM
•   PRESENTATIONS
•   WEBSITE

La disseminazione
•   TEACHERS' BLOGS
•   PROJECT BROCHURES
•   EST DATABASE
•   DVDs AND BOOKLETS
•   REPORTS
•   The ERASMUS + PROJECT RESULTS PLATFORM - description of
    the project and its results to enhance the visibility of the
    project.

Le attività previste per settembre 2016
First of all It is important to inform the local environment about the project -
articles etc
A1 - introducing the project in our schools - you choose the way to do so
A2 - preparing Erasmus + corners at schools - let's choose a good place now
and put some info about our project there
A3 - logo COMPETITION – each school prepare one logo, it will be published on
our FB site and there will be an international voting - the one with most likes
will be the chosen as the logo of our project - it is up to you how you will
organise it at your schools. The deadline is 30 September, voting in the first
week of October.
A4 - E-twinning and FB group
A6 - preparing materials to introduce our schools and towns - the materials
will be uploaded on our e-twinning

Sostenibilità

Il progetto sarà accompagnato da un progetto d’Istituto,
approvato dal Collegio Docenti.

Grazie per
l’attenzione!
Daniela Corvino e Maria Grazia Mattogno

            Palestrina - settembre 2016