3rd TPM(Spain)

As it was planned, we “BESTeachers,BESTudents” Project team completed theTPM activities in Spain . We are really to thankful to the host school Centre Educatiu Balaguer for their great hospitality.

You can see the timetable of Spain TPM here

In this TPM ,we have discussed the first year of our project, the second year goals and activities ,also our e-twinining project. Here we also try to explain our studies

Spanish school website

1st day :After the arrival of Spain on the 1st day the whole group went to city centre and visited the Casa de La Vila and met the representative of the city council .He had a nice speech about the Barcelona , life style ,its history and education in Barcelona .Also he mentioned effects of the importance of national and international projects to the education. After this visit we had an interview with the TV channel .

All the partners explained our project “ Besteachers, Bestudents “

Then we visited the oldest settlement and the oldest and historical post office which is used as a cooking school now . ( el repartido)

After the lunch , at school we started to study about Values education and how to give Values Education in schools. You can see the current situation in teaching values education here.

Values Education in Türkiye

Values Education in Romania

Values Education in Slovakia

Values Education in Bulgaria

Values Education in Poland

Values Education in Spain

You can see the general report of values education here

In Spain in Primary schools , the teachers have some activities to make the students relax. Generally they listen to music to relax so they can concentrate better and solve their problems and troubles easily. Also they listen to music too after the lunch.

In each classroom there is a chosen student who is responsible for taking notes in the classroom.His notes are about the students who have problems and troubles among them.They try to solve these problems .ıf they can not ,they talk to their teachers to find a way .

Another method they use in their classroom is to give a short message to their desk mate. So they feel better and they are open, they can talk about values better. These methods work well and they have better academic success.

In Bulgaria They have no Values education on their curriculum so they give the values educati,on informally. For example they have a student council in their school and they plan activities here . – they have some activities on their national days (Botev’s Day) -Learning Folk dances -Some charity activities to help poor people -Planting trees -Celebrating European day -Human and children rights -About respect and tolerance activities -Sport competitions -Trips -Giving chance to the students to be the headmaster/mayor etc. for a day and see what they can do

In Slovakia Values education is in the curriculum as civil citizenship and ethics.

In Poland Values Education is a compulsory subject and 2 hours in a week. Generally it is given under the 2 ideas. ( Culture & ethics education / Emotional education )Students generally visit other schools and they help the younger students

The Methodology

Here you can see main activities / methods to teach values education from some partner countries

POLAND - Helping the disabled people - having some activities to relax before the exams -Preparing flags and printing important people on the flags - Visiting cemeteries - For religious values they have religion lessons and ethic lessons -Preparing projects how to behave good / bad -Volunters Clubs(being volunteer and doing something for street animals - House of Angels (to help the students who come from poor families .They go and help them on their lessons and homework , the students bake cakes and biscuits and serve them to other people before important events such as national and international festivals, sport competitions and celebrations ) -Sport events (They organize sport events in parks and offer some drinks and meals they prepare themselves-teamwork ) -Dance/drama performances They organize /plan these dance and drama activities so they spend more time at school. –Strong Together They prepare some common activities with this organization to clean / wash the streets especially clean the writings about hatred

2nd day We started the cultural trip to Sant Sadurni and visitied the wine cellar (Cava Pere Ventura)

For lunch we have had traditional meals and visited the historical costal village Sitges

3rd day We studied and discussed the Physical Education and sport education at schools. Every partner presented their presentation about traditional education on these subjects

Physical Education and Sport in Türkiye

Physical Education and Sport in Spain

Physical Education and Sport in Bulgaria

Physical Education and Sport in Slovakia

Physical Education and Sport in Poland

Physical Education and Sport in Romania

3rd day Then we discussed what we should do to have better results in sport especially international sport events and Olympic games

You can see our suggestion here

Then with some students and teachers went to Can Boixeres Park .There we met some disabled and mentally ill people. Here for values education (respect to the old) students spent time with these people. And they were interested in them personally.They played their drama and had great time with these people

4th day :We visited the Catalonia Education Center and joined the meeting about Erasmus+ Projects .Here we listened the new Erasmus+ project programmes and differences between new ones and others.Then We had chance to introduce our project to the headmasters of High schools from the Catalonia Region .Also we shared our experiences with other schools and headmasters

5th day:We talked about the next meetings and e-twining project. Then the certificates were given and had traditional meal “Tapas” was offered . And the TPM was completed with the farewell dinner.