Orff-Schulwerk for Inclusion

As a result of the meetings with all the teachers of our school,the effectiveness and importance of art activities for a youth that embraces all segments of the society and adopts an inclusive culture was emphasized and it was decided to produce projects that would bring students together with different skills. Development of self-awareness, sense of self-worth, communication with peers and community involvement Orff-Schulwerk is an effective music education that gives place to all individuals in line with their abilities and thus provides a musical environment in which each individual can be involved.Being independent from all ages,special talents and special needs, it is carried out in the form of group music activities in which each individual participates in line with their own abilities and competencies. It enables people with different abilities to meet in a common life.Orff-Schulwerk approach, which is actively applied as a part of integrative education in many European countries, contributes to an environment of social integration and harmony through the recognition and experience of our students and colleagues in Europe.The Orff-Schulwerk musical approach gives us a great deal of experience in this goal.

Our main aim was to serve happy individuals and a happy European society through our project In addition to developing self-confidence and self-esteem by expressing themselves through music, our students participating in the project increase their awareness of individual differences, strengthen their tolerance and empathy levels, create a positive and effective learning environment in participating schools, activate the willingness of participating teachers and students to try and discover new methods, increase the perception of society. It was aimed to experience the feeling of success together through division of labor and cooperation.Our another main goal was to ensure that the Orff-Schulwerk music approach was recognized by all the teachers involved in the project and to ensure the sustainability of our project by actively using it in the lessons.

We held our first Learning/Teaching/Training mobility which is “Meeting Orff-Schulwerk is in Berlin” in Berlin,Germany,on March 23-26, 2022.We had training to get acquainted with the Orff-Schulwerk method.Participant teachers shared their existing knowledge and experience of the method,plan Orff-Schulwerk activities to be held in our 2nd and 3rd LTT activities with students.Our 2nd LTT activity “Orff-Schulwerk is in Greece” was held for 4 days in Kavala,Greece, from 28 May to 31 May 2022.In this LTT activity,our participating students and teachers had the opportunity to meet face to face,and our teachers allowed students to rehearse the activities they designed in Berlin.Our 3rd and last LTT activity was held for 4 days in Izmir,Turkey,the country of our two partners,on 20-23 September 2022.In our 1st and 2nd LTT activities, our participating students and teachers presented the activities on the stage that they rehearsed before.Our last activity was on 11-12 October 2022 as online TPM.We evaluated the activities and course of our project,LTT activities,the course of the project's budget and dissemination activities and the extent to which we achieved the results we expected were evaluated.

The most important tangible outputs of our project are project logo,website,blog "OFI",eTwinning project,brochures,promotion items,e-book describing the project and activities.Our logo was chosen by voting among the logos designed by our students,considering its originality and compatibility with the main idea of our project.Our website has been designed in accordance with the purpose of disseminating the Orff-Schulwerk music method and the activities of our project.Our e-book,in which we describe our project and activities in 4 languages,in the participants’ languages and in English,is another concrete output.eTwinning project,in which we included new participants as well as our project partners and aimed to ensure the permanence and sustainability of the effects of our project,started its activities after the official end of our project.We aimed to make our project known with the promotional products we designed.We aimed to create more impact on social media with the short film in which it has project activities.Our Facebook,instagram and youtube channel are our other tangible output tools.In addition to these,we have objectified the results of our project on our participants,which we expected,through the surveys we conducted.