Developing the Competencies of Teachers to Integrate Students from Migrant Background into European Schools
2020-1-FR01-KA201-079762
Project Start Date:2020-11-01
Project End Date: 2022-10-31
Total Budget: 253.705,00 EUR
Coordinator
ASSOCIATION DES AGENCES DE LA DEMOCRATIE LOCALE;France
Partners:
Paydaş Eğitim Kültür ve Sanat Derneği,Turkey
DRUSTVO ZA RAZVIJANJE PROSTOVOLJNEGA DELA NOVO MESTO,Slovenia
UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY – UTH,Yunanistan
Formazione e Comunione Società Cooperativa Sociale Onlus,Italy
UC Limburg,Belgium
The project aims to strengthen the integration of students with migrant background in schools and improve their success in education by providing training, coaching and guidance to teachers equipping school leaders and educators with the necessary skills and innovative tools to support secondary students in the process, strengthening collaboration between schools, families, and other external stakeholders by providing them:
● An educational content to help teachers to integrate students with migrant backgrounds (EC)
● An open online course for middle and secondary school teachers (OOC)
● A teacher community to share good practices(OEC)
The proper management of migrant flows for the upcoming years and the integration of these groups in the EU by fostering education integration and preventing their school leaving are transnational issues. The products and innovative approaches of this project are designed to be fully transferable and testable at EU level and at the same time adaptable to domestic needs, the multiplier events will also serve to this aim. Consequently, a transnational partnership, where 6 partners have different and complementary expertise with migrants, is critical to achieve the objectives of the project, and thus, to tackle a EU-wide issue.
The project aims teachers, students with migrant backgrounds and their parents as well as school leaders. During the lifetime of the project, 78 teachers, school leaders and educators, 100 students with migrant background and parents (in pilots) and 475 stakeholders will be
involved. A wider audience, of a minimum of 1000 recipients, will be reached at local, regional, national and European level through the planned dissemination activities including 300 teachers and educators in 6 multiplier events in 6 different countries. Moreover, there will be a direct impact on target beneficiaries, improving the skills on national languages of both migrant youngsters and parents and strengthening school integration and success in education of students with migrant background , and in the target users, improving the teaching competencies of teachers. The long-term impact envisaged is a better integration of secondary students with migrant backgrounds in the schools and a higher collaboration between schools, families and other external stakeholders, strengthening the school system in Europe. And yet, intercultural education needs teachers who are able to question some fixed truths, who are open to change and able to confront emotionally difficult issues
