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martedì 21 dicembre 2010

Ted İstanbul Koleji Vakfi Ozel Anaokulu (Istanbul _ Turkey)


“Ted İstanbul Koleji Vakfi Ozel Anaokulu” is a pre-school founded in 1998 that operates within a dual-language environment of Turkish and English. It is situated in an environment friendly large area; full of trees and a rich nature but it also is very close to the center of the city.It’s located on the Asian side of Istanbul,the largest city in Turkey with a population of 13.8 million. Istanbul is also a mega city, as well as the cultural and financial centre of Turkey. It extends both on the European and on the Asian sides of the Bosphorus, and is thereby the only metropolis in the world that is situated on two continents. The TED initials of our school represent ‘Turkish Education Association’ which was founded in 1928 by ATATÜRK, the founder of Turkish Republic, with a purpose of establishing high standard education for children of the promising republic. While founding TED, Ataturk aimed to educate children raised within the Turkish culture to have a wider vision and to master a foreign language. Our school has a very important mission of providing children in need a chance of high quality education. Embracing the slogan ‘the school of learners’, the administrators, teachers and students form a community dedicated to lifetime learning and service. Our school program focuses on achieving high academic standards and helping make a better world for its students and its students making the world better for everyone within and outside the national boundaries.



"Our school considers intellectual, social, physical, moral and aesthetic growth as inherent qualities of any educational policy. Therefore, it gives real importance to the richness of the environment and the extra-curricular activities."

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sabato 25 settembre 2010

L2L Project approved!


L2L Project “Learning to Learn: the environment as third educator supporting autonomy and experimentation of knowledge” has been approved by the LLP National Agency.The Project will last 2 years (2010-2012) and will be fully granted by the EU. Progettinfanzia (Italy) is the coordinator of the project and the partners involved are:  Escola Pericot (Spain) – Ted Istanbul Koleji Vakfi Ozel Anaokulu (Turkey) -Kinderhaus Stadt Maintal (Germany). The project connects the partners through exchange and counseling of experiences developed in the Preschools and Institution participating in this project. The main goal of the project is to create learning-to-learn environment, and to share a wider discussion about quality in education. We could define the environment as the third educator because together with children  and adults it participates in the educational processes. The environment supports knowledge, imagination and creativity of each child. It reflects the culture of the people living there; it is the result of reflections, aesthetic choices making in the specific outcome of a pedagogical  way of living. Welcoming, listening, exchanging and discussing the keywords  which will support meetings with teachers who will visit the preschools and build together a dialogue about education.

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