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contents Havza Anadolu Imam Hatip Lisesi The story of 2nd project meeting: 17-20.01.2014, Havza, Turkey Students’ impressions Teachers’ impressions One county-one story Heroes of fairy tales Language mattersshort story conversation English- Turkish What’s next?
Havza Anadolu Imam Hatip Lisesi is the coordinator school in the project. It is located in Havza, which is a small district located in Samsun in the north of Turkey with its about 23600 habitants. In Havza, students, especially girls are under the risk of dropping out in education and cannot access secondary education due to cultural obstacles and needs of girl’s sheltering. Therefore students' parents living in villages are unwilling to send their daughters to secondary education even if they have chance to join an academic school. In lots of nationalities live together we have Albanian, Kurdish, Circassian and Georgian immigrant students. Our school is an academic and religious based school with 305 students aged from 14 to 20 and 23 teachers. As language, Arabic and English are taught in classes during the 4 years. Besides, language classes, students learn theoretical and practical knowledge on Islam. It was built in 1983. The school has got a dormitory for boys. Therefore, we have students coming from far villages, other districts of Samsun. Some little part of them have to use the means of transport. Most of the students come from the lowmiddle income families. %30 of Parents have official jobs and %65 of them are farmers and only %5 of the families are economically well being. Like project coordinator, Havza Anadolu Imam Hatip Lisesi we are having roles like taking care of all bureaucratic task( correspondence, reports, inquiries, etc), coordinating the materials, the visits, the communication among the partnership, the evaluation and the results and acting as central point for exchange of strategic planning information. Our school hasn’t had any experiences on Comenius. European digital stories is our the first international project. So, we really like to be in this project and partnership. We believe that new generation is digital generation. Teachers of the new generation should adopt the lessons according to their need and expectations. The project promotes ICT skills of both teachers and students. Digital stories will capture the attentions of the students during the classes. Due to a candidate country of EU, our students don't know about the EU, EU history, EU citizenship and EU enlargement. Project opens a new vision for our students. They have the opportunity that allows them to know about the daily life and the realities of the other Comenius schools and students. 1