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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tell Me Your Fairy Tale and Support My
Development!
by Paulina Grudniewska and Paola Amati
Let us come back to our childhood and think about
the best moments. Many of us recall telling fairy
tales by our parents or grandparents. Is it still
popular now? Maybe in some families. But most
kids are accustomed to DVD movies, computer
games and to cartoons – not to traditional stories.
The problem is common all over the world, so five
partners: Poland, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and
Bulgaria decided to work on it. We prepared an
Erasmus+ project because we believe that this is
the way to make a very small change in an
education system in our schools.
The name of our project is: Tell me your fairy tale!
So it’s obvious that one of the most important aims
is to know our cultures by introducing our national
stories. We started in September 2015 and are
going to end in June 2017. Our project is an
opportunity to discover a bit forgotten, in our point
of view, the world of fairy tales. We firmly believe in
the sense of technological progress but we want to
protect some important things against destruction,
creating some kind of compromise. Nowadays
children are imbued with popular culture and it’s
difficult to get them to read or listen to the stories
with the pleasure. We want to show them that the
world of fairy tales can be combined with modern
technologies. The youngest recipients of the project
are three years old children and the oldest teenage students. We are trying to show that the
topic of fairy tales may connect students of all ages
and backgrounds.
In addition, our project is not made only for
students. We want to improve teachers’ skills by
exchanging ideas what we always do by the
Internet and during project meetings in our
countries. One of the main effects of our actions will
be creating a teaching guide describing the
methods of working with fairy tales during the
lessons at the end of our project. Our project will be
successful when our students will take some books
to read of their own accord. We are sure we will do
it!
During the project we have done many attractive
activities and many of them are planned for the
next school year.
Through our activities we want to encourage our
teams of teachers to self-improvement, to introduce
innovative teaching methods and to cooperate with
the local community. Our actions are going to be
based primarily on the exchange of experiences in
order to provide the highest level of education.

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