The Love of Reading

About Project.

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“Love of Reading.”

Nowadays, a gradual distancing of young people from the book is observed by teachers. The written
word has lessened due to image and sound. Reading a book isn’t one of teenagers’ priorities. As teachers, we are aware that the friendly relationship with a book helps:

The development of language expression

The critical thinking

The creativity

The development of the pleasure to read

The strengthening of the interpretative capability

The development of their emotional world

Partners

3rd Gymnasio Kilkis (Greece)

The 3rd Gymnasium of Kilkis was founded in 1998. It is the newest Gymnasium of the town of Kilkis and attend 300 students. At the same time, there are 13 general education departments fully equipped with computers, fixed projectors and fixed audio installation, 6 classes for students with learning difficulties with specific teacers , fully equipped to deal with problems related to students with motor problems and 2 welcome classes for refugee students.

IES Aguadulce (Spain)

We offer bilingual training in these levels at School. We were the first School in our province teaching non-linguistic subjects in English.
– Computers Science’s VET. Vocational education training online and presential.
We have 1825 students enrolled and 85 teachers.
Our teachers and students are really active and they all participate in a set of projects joined as “Under the same sun”. Some of these projects are:
– “School: Area of Peace”, “CoEducation”, Educational Small Business, Innicia, Coexistence at school, Sportive school, Erasmus + (VET and Schools)…

Gymnazium, Praha 4 (Czech Rep)

Gymnázium Na Vítězné pláni is situated in Prague 4, on the borders between the neighborhoods of Nusle and Pankrác. It has a magnificent view of the Prague castle. It is easily accessible by the underground metro (line C).
The school provides general education, there are currently 650 students enrolled in 4-year-long and 6-year-long study programs. The curriculum puts big emphasis on foreign languages. Apart from English also German, French, Spanish, Italian, Greek and Russian are taught.

My School srl (Italy)

is the first international school of Viterbo, using an interdisciplinary framework and maintaining a proficiency level both in Italian and English. Twinned with Ambrit Rome International School, St. Thomas’s assures high standard of academic learning and facilitates the development of the child as an “inquirer”, both inside and outside of the classroom.
At St. Thomas’s we study art and crafts, drama, ICT, music and sports from an early age. All the activities are designed to provide opportunities for experimental and co-operative learning and to exploit the communicative importance of languages.

Gymnasium latsia (Cyprus)

The Latsia Gymnasium is a public school based in Latsia a suburb of Nicosia. The school has 66 teachers and 426 students. The school runs 18 classes of general education. All the classrooms are equipped with PCs with internet access and fixed projectors. Moreover the school has had long experience in implementing European programs, as it has participated in one Comenius and three Erasmus+ programs as a partner.

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Moravskoslezska vedecka (Ostrava Library)

The Moravian-Silesian Research Library in Ostrava is a regional library located in former industrial city and region that has been transforming to current social and economic conditions. It is founded by Moravian-Silesian Regional Office, one of the fourteen administrative regions into which the Czech Republic is divided. Its collections containing over 1.2 million items are focused on research and educational literature. The library cooperates with secondary schools, universities and hospitals in forms of providing relevant materials for study and work as well as giving lectures. Besides offering traditional lending services and mediating online licensed resources, it contiguously digitalises materials from various institutions and builds a digital library focused on regional literature.

Iasi Library

„Gh. Asachi ” County Library Iasi is a public library structured according to its encyclopedic profile and aims to be available to the local community through its facilities and programs, meeting the citizens’ need for information, education and recreation. Nowadays everything is happening at an alert pace and the library, an institution with a conservative tradition, is subjected to intense social and cultural pressure. For keeping up with its patrons, its purpose as an institution of culture and education it was extended with modern information and advisory services.

Meetings

Thanks to these teaching/learning meetings, we have the opportunity to exchange experiences and to rebuild our educational practices. We will attempt to make the students love school and education, through literature books. Their repulsion for studying, which often leads them to leaving school or avoiding higher education, is often due to the students not understanding the texts. Through discussing a literature book (about a subject which is thought to be interesting by them), at Reading clubs, the students will develop critical thinking, creativity and the ability to understand and comprehend the content of texts. The love of books, will lead to the love of school, which will result in less students leaving school, and more students choosing to proceed to higher education. The attempt to develop the love of reading will not have limited potential. It will keep on evolving after the end of the project, via the development of e-library and of the Web Reading club.

Through these meetings, we will have additional important results:

Firstly, it will teach the students about the social and cultural environment of the five countries. It will also acquire the students with knowledge about different studying strategies from the other countries.
Furthermore, the meetings let us to create a link amongst Greece, Cyprus, Italy, The Czech Republic,Spain and Romania. • Developing the students’ personal autonomy, enabling them to make it on their own outside the family environment, from which they will have to exit in the future and for the rest of their adult lives.
Teaching the students how to adapt to new social situations.
Teaching the students to accept diversity.
Improving the students’ linguistic competence in the global “lingua franca”.
And lastly, the meetings encourage the use of ICT in education. Our students have the chance to spend time in these European countries, and experience the different lifestyles. This project creates new friendships amongst students and teachers of different countries. Friendships which may last forever. The students’ families are going to realize the vast variety of cultures Europe consists of, via hosting students from other countries, with different traditions, and lifestyles.

During the project 4 transnational meetings will be held. The first one was held in Kilkis(Greece), the second will be held in Ostrava(Czech), the third one in Iasi( Romania) and the fourth one in Nicosia(Cyprus). In those meetings two persons per partner participate in every meeting. The persons who participate in the meetings are the coordinators of each partner and the teachers who are responsible for the Teaching-Learning- Training meetings and for the e-library of every partnercountry. The work sharing, the understanding of the activities that every partner has undertaken and the control of the work progression will play an important role in the success of the project . For all these, apart from the online meetings and the contacts via e-mail, the direct contact of the partners in the transnational meetings will be necessary.