ComeniusPresentation by Juliette Hohnhorst and Alexander Schwinn

Significance of Comenius/Socrates• Different Cultures• Culture Shock• Activities

Participating Schools• Balásházy János Mezőgazdasági és Közgazdasági Szakközépiskola és

Kollégium• Parva esikova Gymnasia/Varna• Escola Secundária dom Manuel Martins• Mustafa Kayisoglu Ilkogretim Okulu• Georg-Simon-Ohm Schule

Targets of Comenius

Topics of the European Project Meetings

Index

Significance of Comenius/Socrates

meeting different cultures

getting to know different cultural characteristics

being tolerant towards different religions

Working together on a project

Different Cultures

The five stages of culture shock:

• The feeling of excitement and eagerness. This stage occurs before leaving to go to the new culture.

• The feeling that everything in the new culture is great. This stage occurs upon arrival to the new culture.

Culture Shock

• The feeling of everything in the new culture is terrible.

• The feeling of adjustment. The stage where the visitor begins to feel comfortable and takes steps to become more familiar with the culture.

• The feeling that everything is fine. The stage where the visitor has adapted to the culture and in some ways is embracing it as their own.

Culture Shock

To learn something about the country and the culture of the host country

Lessons and project work in the international class

Singing, dancing and having fun

To make friends

Activities

Participating Schools

DE Balásházy János Mezőgazdasági és Közgazdasági Szakközépiskola és Kollégium

Location: Debrecen (Hungary)

540 students

Focus on: agriculture, tourism, forestry and hunting economy and at last fishing economy

The school has agricultural equipment and a boarding school

Balásházy János Mezőgazdasági és Közgazdasági Szakközépiskola és Kollégium

Prava Esikova Gymnasia/Varna

Location: Varna (Bulgaria)

Built: 1879/1880

First Multilanguage grammar school

Languages: English, German, France and Russian

Many graduates belong to the political, economic and intellectual elite

98% of the students are directly accepted by university

Prava Esikova Gymnasia/Varna

Escola Secundária Dom Manuel Martins

Location: Setúbal (Portugal)

Built in 1983

General secondary school focus on science, humanities, professional training and economics

The school has four different areas:

• One playground• Cafeteria and a lounge• Block A • Block B

Escola Secundária Dom Manuel Martins

Mustafa Kavisoglu Ilkögretim Okulu

Location: near Mersin Built by Mustafa Kayısoglu Elementary school from class 1 to 8

Province school of Kargıpınarı

Mainly young teachers

Headmaster: Mehmet Okur

School uniform compulsory

Mustafa Kavisoglu Ilkögretim Okulu

Georg-Simon-Ohm Schule

Location: Cologne (Germany)

80 teachers

Principle aim: Media and IT

122 Classes divided in full- and part-time courses

2238 students

The school building was completed in 1998 and in 1999 put into operation

Georg-Simon-Ohm Schule

Targets of Comenius

Lifelong friendships

Learning of social skills

Improving language skills

Creating podcasts and video podcasts

Targets of Comenius

Topics of the European Project Meetings

Project meeting in Hungary

08.11.2009 to 13.11.2009

Topics of the project meeting in Debrecen:

• Podcasts/Vodcasts on the student council`s work of the individual countries

• Cultural Events

• Excursions(Hortobágy, Hollókó)

• Working together in the international class

Project meeting in Hungary

Project meeting in Turkey

20.03.2010 to 26.03.2010

Topics of the project meeting in Mersin:

• Working together in the international class

• Migrant workers

• Reception at the town hall

• An organised cultural evening

• European colonial history (especially Portugal)

Project meeting in Turkey

Project meeting in Bulgaria

Late summer or autumn

Topics of the project meeting in Varna:

• Dealing with youth culture

• Aims: a cultural evening literature competition

• Working on a theatre play

Project meeting in Bulgaria

Project meeting in Portugal

Spring 2011

Topics of the project meeting in Setúbal:

• Creating and performing interviews

• Making of Pod- and Vodcasts

• Preparation of a theatre play

• Organisation of a meeting at the town hall

Project meeting in Portugal

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