Know and Can Association is established in order to help young people and students get involved into the field of informal education. To respond to students and youths’ needs for extra activities that can reveal their potential and intellectual skills, the Association decided to work out a project based on the intellectual games and activities. The project “Know and Can Club” reveals different opportunities for young people to take part in extra educational process without considering it as something boring or compulsory.
The project aims at a period of 15 months to teach students at school age in active and single-handed studying, to make them want to take part in school life and activities and to help them turn into creative and responsible people who are able to make decisions about their future and realization responding to their needs and wills. The project will be held in cooperation with high schools with the help of headmasters, the pedagogical advisor, teachers and trainers. When the school teams are formed they will start working on different modules included in the program of the project. The project includes 30 activities for students in elementary school and 34 ones for the students in high-school age. The activities are going to be held in the schools’ buildings and after the classes in fixed days. To make it more creative and interesting, Know and Can Club intends to carry out competitions where the students will be able to show their new skills and gained knowledge and it will help them feel confident and successful. The competitions will be within the different schools as well as in schools themselves.
In general, the program of the project aims to increase students’ interests and motivation to the educational process by the out-school activities, to stimulate their personal capacity and virtues for successful choice of future realization, to form out in students active positions and attitude towards school itself and school life as a whole. We believe we can achieve the project’s aims because of our experience in informal education as well as our experience in dealing with youths and students at different school age.
