Reading for Emotional and Academic Development

<< Objectives >>The objective of the bibliotherapy project is:Positive impact on teachers' awareness regarding the importance of developing students' emotional skills; Using Bibliotherapy to diversify ways of teaching in the schools, providing new innovative curricula;Improvement of students' social and emotional skills;Improvement of student's critical thinking and problem-solving skills;Positive impact on students' interest and skills for reading and writing.<< Implementation >>Activities:Analysis of usage and implementation of bibliotherapy in participant countries to define needed skills and competencies for our programDevelopment of educational content-based on competency matrixResearch and development of prototype text to help primary school children learn about emotional intelligence and improve their social skillsDevelop a prototype of a diary of emotionsTrain 16 country promoters, 80 teachers and 1600 students in first 6 months after end of the project<< Results >>Tangible results of the project and their impact:Manual of good practices of existing bibliotherapy methodologies - 30 good practices. Bibliotherapy training content for primary school studentsA Diary of Emotions will be supplemental material that children will recognise individual successesTeacher’s toolkit - full teaching methodology on how to teach students through bibliotherapy approachOnline educational resources (OER) in small bite-size units