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A recent study reveals that 70% of teachers believe that schools in Romania offer equal opportunities to all children. At the same time, 42.5% of the same respondents reject people of Roma ethnicity, while 33.7% of them reject homosexuals whereas 31.6% believe that violence against children is sometimes justified. Periodically, media articles show the marginalization suffered by children with special educational needs (SEN). Whether we talk about skin color, disabilities or learning difficulties, or any other difference, schools in Romania do not yet have the tools needed to manage diversity and differentiation in teaching.
The project creates a national network of 16 trainers and a network of 160 multipliers, who will transfer to as many schools in Romania as possible solutions for the acceptance and celebration of diversity, and also regarding differentiated teaching, mainly for children with SEN and tangential for any child considered "outside the norm". Through a collaborative, multi-stakeholder process 16 members of the national network will start from 2 studies regarding:
- the situations of violation of the rights of the child, in Romania, in the last 3 years, respectively
- good practices in addressing diversity in school, in Romania and at European level, during the last 5 years
Based on the in-depth Training of Trainers programme (3 modules lasting 5 days) in which they will participate, the members of the national network will develop a "Guide of diversity and differentiation in teaching", which will be disseminated in 8 regional courses for 160 education specialists. With a snowball effect, through multiplication seminars and an awareness campaign in schools, the message and solutions proposed by the project will reach at least 2400 teachers and 2700 students and at least 100 schools will become familiar with the Diversity Charter for Schools, a document that summarizes the working principles and methods of an inclusive functional school.