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• European Commission SOCRATES Programme
• GRUNDTVIG 2 ACTION

Training of Educators of Adults in an
Intercultural Module
TEAM
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• "TEAM" GROUP

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The basic aim of the project is to promote
intercultural awareness by developing
competences in a global context for adult
educators. In order to achieve this basic aim,
the partnership has set a number of objectives
to fulfill 
To exchange experiences in adult education and
pedagogical and didactic approaches to
intercultural training in order to improve the
quality of teaching

• OBJECTIVES

To identify and exchange best practices in order
to motivate learners Group learning and its
bearing on adult motivation/learning.
Preparation of a methodological guide for group
management in learning that fosters
intercultural awareness from the linguistic
viewpoint.
To find valid practices in order to learn how to
learn as for teachers and students.
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The three-year project falls into a typology of
Learning Partnership. Therefore it focuses on
the process more than on the result and its aim
is to establish cooperation among organisations
working in the field of adult education in formal
and informal sectors. The main activities are
addressed to teachers to adults and their
students. They include and are
needs analysis explained in a report on adult
education
preparation of a methodological guide for
teachers that fosters intercultural awareness
from the linguistic point of view

• MAIN ACTIVITIES

processing of a manual of good teaching practices
in adult education
transnational meetings of partners to establish
the working methodology, to exchange
experiences, to analyze and to evaluate the work
done
to develop Grundtvig 3 courses and seminars to
introduce other teachers in the practice of
adult training and of new methodologies in
languages teaching.
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EXPECTED OUTCOMES

• A report on adults education published in the
  website of each institution
• A manual/guide of good teaching practices in
  adult education published in the website of each
  institution
• A CD-Rom containing the report and the guide of
  good teaching practices in adult education
• A new larger project within Socrates Programme
  whose aim is to help trainers in Adult Education.

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THINGS ACHIEVED WITHIN ONE PROJECT YEAR

• Our activities started with the first project
  meeting held in Naples - Italy (26 30 November
  2005). In the first meeting the representatives
  of the five organizations introduced themselves
  to each other and decided the activities each
  partner would carry out.

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• After revising the objectives, they made up their
  minds about the main activities and the expected
  outcomes of the Project. This Project meeting
  activity was very significant for the setting up
  of the partnership. All partners agreed that
  every partner would find good examples of reading
  , writing , speaking and listening- the four
  basic skills in language learning. Each partner
  tookover a skill.

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• A second Project meeting was held in Bursa Uludag
  University(Turkey) in February in order to
  analyse the work done in each institution and to
  define the next steps. During the meeting the
  five representatives of the partners discussed
  the contents of the application form for the
  following year.

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• During the third meeting held in Aksaray (Turkey)
  in April, the 3 partners present - from Naples,
  Bursa and Aksaray- presented their exercises
  (i.e. reading and writing activities with a
  guideline) designed according to the worksheet
  and criteria approved in the first meeting. The
  complete activities in particular were discussed.
  For example, successful and unsuccessful parts
  were defined and reported. They wrote a
  questionnaire to be used in order to evaluate the
  project effects on the learners involved by each
  partners organization.
• During Aksaray meeting a public conference and
  local press conference were organized by the host
  partner in order to present the aim of the
  project TEAM and to make a comparison through the
  different education systems in Italy and Turkey.

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As planned, each partner organised activities to
train various language skills after a search of
new tools in language training including a
cross-cultural dimension, examples of good
practices were found and the partners
established factors to take into account when
designing the activities on those four skills

• presentation of the activity,
• duration,
• instruments,
• number of students,
• language used,
• evaluation of the activity,
• defining also the level (beginners, intermediate
  or advanced) in
• which these practices were carried out. These
  activities were completed
• by all the partners in May and June.

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In this way the partnership contributed to reach
the objective To gather information and to
create a database of the know-how and good
practices of language learning through teaching
methods and materials Each partner
was supposed to test the tools sent by the other
partners. These tests will be held at the
beginning of next year, as the pedagogical
process in the groups did not allow an immediate
testing.
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• The main output of these activities was a booklet
  with exercises written in order to improve
  students skills in reading, writing, speaking
  and listening.
• The partnership used a worksheet for the
  activities proposed by GIP Formation (French
  Partner). Each partner wrote four exercises, used
  them with their own learners and evaluated the
  results. The partners took notes about the used
  method, the difficulties they came across and the
  rate of success.

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• PARTNER ACHIEVEMENTS

• The partner GIP (FRANCE) made
• a visit of the most important French national
  exhibition in Paris,
• a work with 2 trainers in one of their training
  centres,
• a selection of tools for the listening skill
  including a cross-cultural dimension. These tools
  were used with two groups, one beginner, one low
  intermediate
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• selected tools for some speaking activities. They
  wrote the exercises and the instructions and
  asked a translator to translate them into English
  
• translated FENICE web pages from English into
  French
• wrote a presentation of the project in its
  magazine Information Continue, that is sent to
  5000 decision makers in the field of training,
  human resources, employment, etc, in Lorraine
• made a presentation of the GRUNDTVIG program in
  its regional net (one GRETA decided to apply for
  a GRUNDTVIG 2 project).

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• The partner OYDDER (Aksaray-Turkey)
• prepared a CD with a nice story explaining the
  work done during the three transnational meetings
  with all the pictures of the participants and the
  local authorities.
• prepared reading activities. Some learners were
  involved in this activity. This activity was done
  with two groups.
• organised a meeting to discuss the teaching
  methods and difficulties found during teaching
  practice in adult education in its institution .
  Almost twenty teachers attended this meeting.
  Every participant expressed his/her ideas about
  the topic.

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• The partner Uludag University (Bursa-TURKEY) made
  
• a selection of tools for the reading skill
  including a cross-cultural dimension and a
  specific level (beginner-intermediate-advanced).
  These tools were used with a group of beginners.
• a selection of tools for the speaking
  skills, asked by the coordinator.
• on 24 May 2006 held a seminar with the
  participation of nearly 35 colleagues (foreign
  language lecturers). During the seminar, EU
  projects, Team Project and the progress of work
  were mentioned and during the second half of the
  seminar, they discussed teaching methods and
  difficulties in teaching practice since these
  points would be included in project activities.
• formed an official International Relations and
  EU projects Committee (14 members from University
  lecturers who have successful EU projects) with
  the permission of the Rectorate in order to
  disseminate and promote European projects and be
  in contact with other institutions.

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• The coordinating institution FENICE
  (Naples-ITALY)
• proposed the calendar to be carried out by the
  learning partnership
• organised the meetings related to the project
• prepared writing activities and tested them with
  learners in a secondary school
• asked a translator to help them turn into
  Italian the Grundtvig Learning Partnerships
  Navigator and to translate the project in
  English and also presentation to be included in
  its website and the articles to be included in
  its newsletters so that they could be sent to
  schools and institutions in Europe
• monitored constantly the respect of time limits
  and the completion of the tasks distributed
  among the partners.
• has ensured the diffusion and dissemination of
  the results through its website, its newspaper
  Scuol_at_Europa was sent to 3500 secondary schools
  of Italy and its newsletter sent three times a
  year to 2200 relevant institutions and
  educational policy-makers all around Europe.

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•   Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Murcia (SPAIN)
• selected tools for speaking skills to be
  tested and carried out the examples of good
  practice using their own students.
• Representatives of the partner Escuela Oficial de
  Idiomas de Murcia (Spain) met the French partner
  in Nancy on January 14, 2006. They discussed the
  specific question of distance learning, as the
  Spanish partner had an interesting experience in
  this field.
• announced its withdrawal from the project in
  Februrary due to demanding tasks of other EU
  projects.

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AND NOW

• TEAM Group is looking forward to continue 2nd
  year project activities in October Meeting in
  France

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• Prepared
• by
• Emel ADAMIS
• English Language Lecturer