Özel Çağdaş Okullari Eskişehir

Our school was founded in 1992 to become a pioneer school in the socio-cultural and academic domain with its 837 students and 104 experienced teachers.When our students finish their Primary and Secondary education,they are accepted into our newly-founded high school.It aims to prepare students for national and international exams,to undertake many projects, be active in sports and be competent in at least 2 foreign languages.It has participated in many national and international projects in its first year.One of them isThe Duke of Edinburg International Award which equips young people for life regardless of their backgrounds,cultures,physical abilities,skills and interests.Çağdaş Schools give great importance to Robotic activities.In 2020 Vex Robotics Championship, one of our robotics teams has gained the best design award and is going to represent us in the Vex Robotics Wold Championship in the USA.

We have been in cooperation with the universities in Eskişehir since our school was founded.With a protocol signed between OsmangaziUniversity and PrivateÇağdaşSchools,teachers have been taking seminars from the lecturers.Thus, we can make academic contributions to this project.The other cooperation that we undertake is about Modelling European Union. We are going to host a conference on the EU day and conduct a simulation of EU,as well.In Primary school,we have an E-twinnning Project about climate change.

Çağdaş Schools wants to be a part of this project, because we live in a country which houses more than 4 million refugees. We aim to create mindfulness among people around us and the aim of this project is to achieve this purpose via stories.As teachers,we believe that stories have an incredible power on young learners. If we want to change the negative perception towards refugees, we should start from the kids and stories are great tools for this aim. We want take part in changing the perception of refugees in a positive way.Also, last year, we carried our a perception study about refugees with our high school students and we saw that we need to change the perception of the students about refugees. Another value that we can add to this project is our writing expertize.We have been carrying out a NANOWRIMO PROJECT (a story writing project) with our language teachers for 2 years.

Key People:Funda Yoldaş, English Language teacher, has a teaching experience of 13 years, has been working at private schools since 2007.She worked as a Mentor and Teacher trainer in Elt and delivered seminars on behalf of Turkish Education Foundation and coordinated Nanowrimo project in Çağdaş and is taking part in MEU activities.Esen Uluhan is an information technologies teacher for 9years,has been working as a vice-principal and delivering seminars and conferences in universities within the scope of STEM and robotics. He coached robotics team, did workshops on roboticscoding tools and building lesson materials, arranged national robotics tournaments in our school