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The aim of the Project “School of Inclusion” is to prepare and disseminate a model for strengthening of competences framework of teachers’, tutors’, psychologists’ from primary and secondary schools on anti-discrimination and inclusion education. CCE’s previous experience and observation both from internal and external research, teachers needs-assesment, direct us towards supporting teachers, tutors, psychologists, and putting more emphasis on strengthening their competences both in inclusive and anti-discrimination education, including mutual support activities as part of school work (support networks, peer coaching).
The recipients of the Project are 385 teachers from 125 schools. The expected results include: Guide for Teachers – School Model for Preventing and Counteracting Discrimination, Set of educational material (Toolkit) for teachers, online course, set of cards on Human Rights (educational tool for work with students and elaborated with Partner Organisation HRA), thematic presentations. Such activities as online course, Laboratory of Knowledge and Good Practices, webinars, dissemination conference will contribute to to enriching teachers substantive resources at the level of knowledge, attitudes, skills that will affect the quality of activities undertaken by them in direction of building open, inclusive environment and learning processes in school.
In long term perspective the project will contribute to development of CCE’s offer of support for schools in realizing democratic culture of school work and will allow the methodology to reach new recipient groups
Summary of project results
Thanks to the project, teachers, psychologists and school counselors from all over Poland were supported in inclusive and anti-discriminatory education. Thanks to it, they could strengthen their knowledge and skills of distinguishing agreed jokes or disputes resulting from differences of opinion from discrimination and unequal treatment, e.g. due to origin, nationality or appearance. They had the opportunity to practice recognizing and reacting to discriminatory situations. They also learned interesting ways to integrate a diverse class, also when there are people from other countries in it.
The Project Promoter managed to prepare all the planned substantive and educational materials:
- Online course for teachers and school counselors and psychologists, providing knowledge on human rights, as well as strengthening the skills of recognizing, reacting to and preventing discrimination
- A guide for teachers - a school model of preventing and responding to discrimination
- Workbook for teachers with excercises to be used in the classroom or in the whole school
- Cards for conversations and activities on human rights - an educational tool for working with students
- 4 thematic presentations for webinars disseminating the topics of the project:
How to build good relations in the classroom through inclusive language and everyday behavior and how to deepen mindfulness in this area?
How to develop students'' anti-discrimination competences?
How to support people experiencing discrimination?
How to effectively teach about human rights at school?
The Project Promoter conducted all planned dissemination events - 4 webinars, 5 workshops in Poland and Norway, as well as a summary conference.
The subject was very popular among teachers, psychologists and school counselors from all over Poland.
The male and female teachers participating in the activities conveyed that the activities provided them with a great deal of knowledge, which they will use in their work, that they recommend us to everyone and hope for further cooperation, that thanks to our trainings they want to work better, that the students will certainly benefit from it and on their behalf they also thank us, that there is a great need to explore this subject, that they thank us for many ideas and clarification of doubts, and that they will benefit from this knowledge, that they were able to broaden their views and look at many events from a different perspective, that the activities gave a lot, they sorted out certain issues and thanks to this they were able to conduct more interesting educational hours, they also learned certain things about themselves, how they themselves - despite their illusions - are sometimes guided by stereotypes and prejudices, they saw our activities as a beginning for further independent work.
The project developed , which will continue to serve teachers as well as school psychologists and educators:
- An online course providing knowledge on human rights, as well as strengthening skills to recognise, respond to and prevent discrimination
- A guide for teachers - a school model for preventing and responding to discrimination
- Workbook
- Conversation and action cards on human rights - an educational tool for working with students
- Recordings of 4 webinars on the project topics
They will be available and used by us, as well as by teachers and schools.
Summary of bilateral results
The Human Rights Academy in Oslo has been partner of the Center for Citizinship Education Foundation for several years already. The current project developed the partnership, created the content of an online course for teachers and school counselors and psychologists, providing knowledge about human rights, as well as strengthening skills to recognize, react to and prevent discrimination, as well as new publications:- Workbook for teachers- Cards for conversations and activities on human rights - an educational tool for working with studentsJoint creative work on educational materials brought us a lot of satisfaction and allowed us to mutually develop our educational resources. We plan to continue bilateral cooperation - we have already submitted another application under the Active Citizens program, but it did not receive funding.