Dramatizing is a way to provide self-expression and helps development of imagination, creativity and cooperation, developing the communicative skills. Through drama, pupils gain fluency of speech, self-knowledge, self-respect, discipline and self-confidence. "European Children on the Same Stage" aims to an intercultural exchange, sharing among partners the traditions and everyday life by means of drama. In the first year pupils in all partner institutions will make an analysis of the plays they read or went to and they will decide upon the most popular ones to be performed in front of the community, activity followed by an exchange between the partner schools. In the second year pupils will make use of their creativity and imagination, writing a common play about their everyday life, their problems, friendship, hobbies, leisure time, which are almost the same in each country, pointing out that despite the cultural differences, they have almost the same interests and problems. The characters will be commonly decided by all institutions and each partner school will write an act in which it will be presented a certain situation that students face with.

• Subjects: Art, Drama, Foreign Languages, Geography, History, Informatics / ICT, Language and Literature, Music, Special Needs Education
• Languages: EN
• Pupil's age: 12 - 15
• Tools to be used: Chat, e-mail, MP3, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Twinspace, Web publishing
• Aims: to widen intercultural dialogue, facilitating exchange and communication among schools, pupils and teachers from European countries; - to promote and increase... read moreto widen intercultural dialogue, facilitating exchange and communication among schools, pupils and teachers from European countries; - to promote and increase the flow of children drama throughout Europe; - to improve ICT skills among pupils and teachers; - to improve the quality of teaching and learning of foreign languages by promoting teaching methods and materials based on the use of drama techniques; - to encourage pupils’ creativity, giving them the chance to present themselves to a wide audience; - to promote equal opportunities for all pupils, involving pupils with fewer opportunities to participate in local and European activities. hide
• Work process: The project aims at an intercultural exchange among European schools using drama, as well as the development of understanding towards... read more The project aims at an intercultural exchange among European schools using drama, as well as the development of understanding towards each other, because working on a drama performance means working together very closely. Pupils will find out about other countries’ culture, reading and acting each other’s plays and by writing and performing a play, they also get to know each others’ culture in an informal way, becoming curious about the daily life of the other pupils, with differences and similarities, learning about Europe itself. In each school pupils will be given questionnaires related to the most popular traditional plays they went to or read, deciding upon the ones to be performed; - Each partner institution will organize a casting and a jury formed by teachers and pupils will decide upon the pupils to perform in the common show; - Each partner school will make a partnership with Child Care Organizations in their communities and the institutionalized children will be invited at the show; - In the second year partners will make a common play in which students will write about their everyday life. Partners will commonly decide upon the characters of the play and each institution will create an act of the play, placing the characters in different situations; - In each school pupils will make their own props for the plays and the costumes, using recyclable materials; - Pupils and teachers in each school will organize volunteering activities to teach institutionalized children drama techniques and help them create a drama show; - Computer and internet will be used both by teachers and pupils during the whole period of the project and after each activity, teachers and pupils will be given questionnaires to see what the result and the progress of the project are; - In each school the project teams will be given specific tasks regarding organization, evaluation and dissemination; - Pupils will work together to carry out a dictionary with basic vocabulary in the languages of the partners; - There will be a permanent collaboration with media in order to promote the activities and the results of the project; - The activities of the project will be included into the curriculum in different subjects, involving thus as many teachers as possible. hide
• Expected results: Project website Project logo Common exhibition with pupils’ drawings which will be used as illustrations for the plays in the project book Common... read moreProject website Project logo Common exhibition with pupils’ drawings which will be used as illustrations for the plays in the project book Common show with the selected plays Realization of the video with the plays Plurilingual dictionary Common show with the play performed by pupils from all institutions Realizations of the video with the play Realization of a photo album hide

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