Our target is to provide children with the Social Emotional Learning(SEL) based web tool to create and write their own stories. By our thematically designed templates, we wanted to offer them to flourish their creativity together with their peers, parents and friends. In addition to the templates, we prepared learning scenarios and question sets for teachers to support SEL skills.
The main purpose of the study is to promote children's creative writing skills. Creative writing studies can be done individually or in teams by using the themes we designed within this framework.
Our current story templates include;
23rd April Children Fest,
Space and Environment,
Friendship,
Ankara View themes,
Zero waste,
Ocean ecosystem,
Climate change.
Students, individually or as a team, interpret the visuals on the templates and carry out creative writing activities. You can easily use this web tool in the classroom or home environment, teacher or family guided to promote pupils 21st-century skills, especially creativity and collaboration.
“Kidory” also organizes tutorials for teachers on how to use the web page. Lesson plan examples are presented to teachers in these trainings. In projects carried out for children, it is possible to convert the project outputs into templates on the “Kidory” web page. Thus, it contributes to the sustainability of the projects.
Recently we have contributed to important projects namely "My Dream, My Story", “23 April Children Fest” and “Art Workshops with the Ankara View”. Specific story templates were designed for the sustainability of the projects.
We expand our network by providing teacher training webinars together with NGOs. We organize online workshops in education sector in frame of K12, and also of the universities especially with faculties of education. We also provide mentoring to teachers for their projects like e-twinning and creative writing lessons etc.
We are currently working with volunteer psychologists on an "emotion"-focused template that will provide psychosocial support for children affected by the earthquake.
The web tool has multilingual structure* of the creative writing tool templates, offering good practices for users. For cooperation please visit our website:" www.kidory.com ". By using Google translator you can easily access to the story templates and start writing your stories, which are saved to your own library and downloadable as PDF.
*English and Arabic language options provided soon.
