”ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACQUISITION WITH BLENDED LEARNING”

STAFF TRAINING AND TRANSNATIONAL MEETING

14^th-16^th November 2018 - ISKENDERUN TURKEY

”English Language Acqusition with Blended Learning” is a project realized with the financial support of the European Commission under the ERASMUS + Program, the action KA229 - strategic partnerships in the school field.

    The partner schools are:

• ·        Necmi Muammer Ortaokulu ( Turkey)
• ·        Iskenderun Cumhuriyet Anadolu Lisesi ( Turkey)
• ·        Ogres Valsts Gimnazija (Latvia)
• ·        Școala Gimnazială Nr. 1 Albești ( Romania)

      The project aims to increase motivation for learning English by creating a virtual classroom where students can work both at school and at home.

      On 14^th-16^th November 2018, the first ERASMUS + mobility took place at  ”Iskenderun Cumhuriyet Anadolu Lisesi” in the city of  Iskenderun in Turkey, being the first working meeting and the first teacher training meeting. This mobility was attended by teachers from all four of the partner schools. For 3 days, 13 teachers conducted learning, training and assessment activities, with the main goal of introducing ” Blended Learning and 21 Century Skills and Competences ”.

DAY 1
         

       We received a warm welcome from the school leadership and project partners at the ”Iskenderun Cumhuriyet Anadolu Lisesi” in the High school director's office. After I met teachers from partner schools on the project, we were handed  the schedule of activities and explained what we would do every day. The day included two training sessions on  ”Blended Learning and 21 Century Skills and Competences”.

         In the break between the two sessions of the first day we took part in a program commemorating the death of the founder of the Turkish Republic ”Ataturk”. The program was supported  by high school students.

         The afternoon continued with a visit to the "District National Education Directorate" where we were waited also with hospitality. After the visit we discovered several areas of the city and  went for a walk along the Mediterranean Sea. The day ended with  a dinner in town.

                                                                              DAY 2
     

  The second day began with a meeting of the teachers in the school- in the teachers’ room. We met all the teachers from the high school, a fairly large number, we  changed the impressions about school and school activities.

           

                A new training activity on the project was carried out, then we took part in some hours of the course of the day. We  saw several classes, where we had the opportunity to respond to the pupils' curiosities about each school involved in the project.There was a new project activity where every mobility that was to be held until the end of the project was discussed.The day continued with a visit to a private school.

         DAY 3

           

 On the last day of the training we carried out activities to assess of the days of activity after which the project was presented to the high school students, followed by handing in the certificates of participation at the training activity.

          In the afternoon we visited Antakya city, the ”Hatay Archaeology Museum”, which it is known for its extensive collection of Roman and Byzantine Era mosaics, and the Church of  "Saint Peter " which is composed of a cave carved into the mountain area on Mount Starius.