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The project “School prepares active citizens” was designed to increase the intercultural dialogue, to make teaching a culture of democracy and to give young people all the tools they need to acquire the skills to build a pluralistic society based on solidarity, democratic values and human rights and to live together as active and responsible citizens. It is not possible to acquire these skills without quality education in democratic citizenship, human rights and intercultural dialogue.
Main objectives of the project:
1. Increasing the number of teacher trainers with advanced skills in the field of education for democratic citizenship, human rights and intercultural dialogue.
2. Developing the competences of 100 teachers through 3 continuous training programmes in the field of democracy, citizenship, human rights, school violence prevention and inclusiveness.
3. Developing the competences for democratic culture and intercultural dialogue among students from Timis County.
4. Developing a kit of innovative educational resources for teachers in the field of education for democratic citizenship, human rights and intercultural dialogue.
Number of participants: 4 teacher trainers participants to the mobility, 20 teacher trainers involved in the teacher training programme and activities of the project in the schools, 100 teachers participants to the continuous training programmes and to the activities with students.
Summary of project results
The project “School prepares active citizens” was designed to increase the intercultural
dialogue, to make teaching a culture of democracy and to give young people all the tools they need to acquire the skills to build a pluralistic society based on solidarity, emocratic values and human rights and to live together as active and responsible citizens. It is not possible to acquire these skills without quality education in democratic citizenship, human rights and intercultural dialogue.
This project was necessary due to the following identified issues:
- The insufficient number of teacher trainers with advanced skills in the field of democracy, human rights, citizenship and inclusiveness
- The need of diversification of the training offer of The Teachers Training Centre of Timis County in the fields of democracy, human rights, citizenship and inclusiveness, with innovative and specific programmes
- The need for correlation between teacher training and the development of students' skills in the fields of democracy, human rights, citizenship and inclusiveness.
The project started with the participation of four teachers from The Teachers Training Centre of Timis County in the course „Assessment for learning. Creative and diverse assessment methods for education in the 21st century”, organized by Intercultural Iceland.
Follow-up activities, designed to enhance the skills developed during mobility, included:
- The design and accreditation by the Ministry of Education of two new training programmes:
”Inclusion and interculturality in the Romanian school” and ”Romanian School – a safe
school, a non-violent space”
- Training activities for 28 trainers and 104 teachers (through 4 training programs)
- Educational activities with students from 20 schools in the fields of democracy, human
rights, citizenship and inclusiveness
- Development of educational resources in the fields of democracy, human rights, citizenship and inclusiveness
As a result of these activities, The Teachers Training Centre of Timis County increased the number of collaborators – trainers with skills on the field of education for democracy, has diversified its training offer with 2 new programs, developed the civic skills of teachers and students, experienced the evaluation of the impact of training programs through the activities carried out by teachers with students.