Includeart

INCLUDEART
EU Programme: Erasmus+ KA2 – Cooperation partnerships in the field of School
Reference: 2022-1-ES01-KA220-SCH-000088779
Start date: 01/11/2022
End date: 30/10/2024

The project aims to support teachers, school leaders and others in the reaching fields to develop more creative and digital skills by using new creative tools such as web radio, especially as a response to COVID-19.

The project activities are about social inclusion that focuses on religion, disability, age, sexual orientation and ethnic origins as the main reasons for discrimination. Teachers have the task to build trust with their students and to help build trust among the students in the classroom.

The project wants to improve the skills of teachers in the field of inclusion through an innovative methodology, based on the history of music and arts, highlighting integration and success stories of famous (and local) artists from disadvantaged groups.

Objectives

To strengthen the professional development of teachers to acquire inclusive and creative competencies to effectively promote student development and increase the participation of marginalized students through the use of art, digital tools and real examples of artistic models.
To enable teachers to acquire the know-how to deal with a multicultural classroom and increase their intercultural competence through a range of digital and artistic methodologies.
To enable a cross-curricular learning approach to increase the capacity of teachers to plan educational interventions that are more responsive to the needs of their target students, improve classroom atmosphere to encourage intercultural dialogue, increase openness towards social inclusion and empathy.
To improve student motivation in pursuing social well-being and inclusion in their school environment and wider school community so to improve their active participation, communication, and creativity.

Activities

Identifying, adapting and developing a range of innovative approaches based on ‘Art and Artists’ stories of inclusion and effective training tools to improve the inclusive skills and digital skills of marginalised students.
Producing learning modules to support the application of digital competences, digital and artistic methodologies in order to support teaching and learning in the school environment.
Delivering an international ‘Training of Teachers’ that will test and further define the learning outcomes of the Learning Modules in close cooperation with the target group of school teachers.
Organising ‘School Day’ to promote the creation of the new Educational web radio.

Resources

Compendium of Success Stories showcasing artist role models.
Learning modules on the use of innovative approaches based on art and artists’ stories of inclusion and providing effective training tools to improve the creative skills of students.
The launch of an Educational Web Radio for schools with radio broadcasting. The creation of an educational web radio and new methods of student engagement through the arts offers both teachers and students new digital skills and channels for using art as a method of teaching and learning.

Results

Reduced school dropout rates whilst increasing the active participation and engagement of students particularly those marginalised.
Higher quality teaching and learning through more qualified teachers readily equipped with new tools to address digital divide and support at risk students
Acquired inclusive and creative competencies to effectively engage better with at risk students.
Improved professional development related to student development and participation through the use of web radio.
Increased capacity to plan more responsive educational interventions to the needs of the students’ capacity to deliver innovative teaching.
Increased intercultural competences, thanks to a range of methodologies which enable cross-curricular learning approach and the use of the web radio.

Co-experts

Secondary school teachers from all teaching disciplines facing the new challenges emerging from the pandemic age.
Secondary school students, at risk of exclusion, lacking digital resources and know-how and at risk of drop out due to poor wellbeing overall.
Teaching staff, school community stakeholders and families of school children.

Partnership