Stop au Harcèlement!

"<< Background >>This project was one of the components of the project of the Créteil academy: international opening. Indeed, the language teachers' team of Lycée Langevin-Wallon has encouraged projects with an international dimension in order to open up students, the vast majority of whom come from disadvantaged backgrounds, to the world and to practice English in a concrete context by meeting young people of their age. The international opening began with eTwinning, it seemed natural to go on with Erasmus +. We also applied because the issue of bullying is a major problem that prevents some young people from thriving in school and leads to school dropout. Raising awareness of this phenomenon among students in order to better fight against it was a motivation for our school and the partner schools of this project. We are all confronted with situations of students who have dropped out of school, we all wanted to find tools to allow them to experience school better. Finally, this project also allows us to experiment with innovative and collaborative practices such as the creation of a ""Stop Bullying"" wall, acting out theater scenes, writing a song, for example.<< Objectives >>We wanted to raise awareness among our students to recognize what bullying is, to increase the way we live well together in our schools, to reflect on the attitudes to have towards bullying, whether we are victims or witnesses. As bullying is a factor of malaise at school that can lead to school dropout, it seemed important to us to carry out actions to better understand this phenomenon in order to better fight against it and thus avoid school dropout or worse. Information and prevention are the best ways to fight against harassment. This involves young people who will be able to inform and warn other young people themselves. We also wanted to introduce our students to other cultures, to make them aware of the similarities and differences between young Europeans from different countries. Our wish has also been to strengthen our sense of belonging to Europe, to strengthen the feeling of European citizenship in order to make our young people mobile at the European level in their professional projects.<< Implementation >>From the beginning of the project, we started by conducting a survey in order to become aware of the situation in each partner's school. This ""temperature of bullying"" survey made it possible to see if the students participating in the project have been victims or witnesses of bullying, to see if they are aware of the procedures as victims or witnesses. Then many activities where the students acted in international teams were set up: Stop Bullying wall, creation of stop-motion films, creation of a small dictionary with a more tolerant vocabulary, theater scenes, short films to alert on the different types of harassment, letter of friendship, path of friendship with messages of tolerance on stones, collaboratively written song, manifestos against harassment, tree of fraternity and a European charter against bullying in a e-book.<< Results >>Several achievements were created during the meetings in the countries participating in the project: Stop Bullying wall, videos and manifestos against harassment, theatrical scenes, fraternity tree, dictionary for a more tolerant vocabulary, calendar of kindness, song, comics, etc. All these achievements have allowed the students to better understand what bullying is and thus produce a e-book with all the useful information to deal with bullying. At each mobility, between 5 and 7 students from each country were present and worked in international teams. English was the language of communication, allowing students to develop their language skills. The students who had the most difficulty with oral language, the French in particular, learned to overcome their inferiority complex, encouraged by the teachers and the mutual aid put in place by the students who were more comfortable with English. The benefits of this cooperation were measured in class: the students showed much more ease in expressing themselves in English, especially during their oral exam of the baccalaureate. At the level of schools, cases of harassment are still present, but better understood by adults and students to cope with it."