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Teaching in Diversity

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2016-1-DE03-KA201-023001
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for school education Funder Contribution: 191,657 EUR

Teaching in Diversity

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Acknowledging that the educational institutions are a place where diversities meet and interact on a daily basis and that they are the first pillar of the societal integration and acculturation, the project aimed at the topic of Diversity Management at school, focusing on the teachers as key actors in the process of transfer of knowledge, values, skills and competences. In contrast to the numerous initiatives providing the teachers with skills and competences of 'how to teach diversity', the current project focused on one significant gap, identified in the teachers' training: How to teach diversity, how to teach in diversity and how to manage diversity. The project envisioned following objectives and activities:1) Teachers’ empowerment through:• Development of solid knowledge and understanding of diversity management (training packages, handbooks, methodology); • Enabling the knowledge-based transfer and development of civic competences from teachers to their students (testing and monitoring); • Raising awareness about diversity management mechanisms and development of new skills and approaches to diversity (dissemination activities); 2) Supporting the early societal integration at school level through recruiting educational staff aware of and knowledgeable about culture-sensitive learning, mechanisms for mitigating intercultural conflicts, facilitating intercultural communication; 3) Establishment of an international educators’ network for real time self-support in addressing diversity challenges and of a mobile application for facilitating the network’s interaction; 4) Development of a training module and open educational resources in diversity management for teachers and 5) Adapting the developed training package for online training in diversity management for teachers. There were 10 organizations from 8 European countries in the consortium: the European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI), Germany - Research Centre; Workers Education and Training College (WETCO), Bulgaria - NGO working in the area of Adult training and VET; Danmar Computers LLC, Poland - a private company that provides vocational trainings in the field of IT (expert on online platforms); Kairos Europe Limited, the United Kingdom - Vocational training centre that develops programmes aimed at intercultural exchanges between European countries; Fryske Academy Mercator, the Netherlands - research institute; MEDEA: Media & Learning IVZW, Belgium - multimedia association; EURAC, Italy - Research Institute with the focus on legal issues; CSP, Italy - research centre working on industrial development; Asociatia Paradigme Educationale, Romania - NGO, excluded from the consortium due to lack of competences and poor English language skills; Liceul Pedagogic “Mircea Scarlat” Alexandria, Romania – Secondary school. Main activities of the project: -6 transnational partnership meetings aimed at coordination of the work of consortium, testing of the products and clarification on the possible content-related issues/approaches to teaching the modules;-Development of the products, their translation and finalization (during the whole project time 2016-2018);- 2 multiplier events: pilot face-to-face trainings (February-March 2017); Final round of the multiplier events: presentation of all products, including testing of several modules from the Training package and the online platform (October-November 2018). Impact attained: 125 people attended face-to-face trainings in 7 partner countries; 100 people attended final MPE in 7 partner countries; 69 people form 12 countries took part in the testing of online course. The responses of participants while evaluating this course were very positive both on the part of the facilitators and participants. The analysis of the course evaluation determined a great deal of interest in this type of training.The modules can be used at any educational level (the course proposes materials for trainers and teachers, along with future teachers, students and pupils), they can be used in a form of standalone training (online training) or as a face-to-face training that shares interactive exercises on how to manage diversity in a classroom. The need in these trainings is also confirmed by the level of requests to conduct the whole training or some modules of interest: e.g. on the 6.12.2018 the ECMI staff conducted a training on religious diversity for IFA, Stuttgart; on the 28.02.2019 the ECMI team was invited to conduct a one-day Teach-D training in frames of a Teacher Training Day for Eckernförde school, Flensburg. In Bulgaria, the Ministry of Education included the Teaching in Diversity training in the obligatory Teachers Qualification Programme for school teachers for 2019-2020.

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