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The overall objective consists in the following specific objectives: 1. Strengthening of the specialized professional skills for 4 school counselors to build "change teams" and their ability to implement a unitary set of methodologies and working tools needed in the intervention and support education actors, especially students from disadvantaged groups, by participating in the training program "The teacher is a change agent". 2. Increasing the degree of intercommunication, interrelation and social integration of the education actors, through access to innovative sessions for optimization and personal / professional development, addressed to a number of 40 school counselors, 40 teachers, 40 classmasters, 40 pupils and 40 parents. By using the "working together" principle, the activities will ensure the target group''s access to quality educational services by: developing inter-institutional collaboration partnerships and involving 4 pilot schools in implementing examples of good practice; training the educational experts and their participation in mobility, as well as capitalizing on the skills developed during the training program; the use of unitary support resources applicable to counseling and psycho-pedagogical assistance; planning, organizing, controlling activities; promotion and dissemination; continuous monitoring and evaluation.
Summary of project results
In the current context, which highlights the multiplication of the roles of the school counselor, the increase of the number of calls for advice, especially for social integration and prevention of risk behaviors, lack of tools and unitary support resources applicable to the counseling process, a flexible and high-quality psycho-pedagogical assistance system is required, wich will strengthen their roles as facilitator and agent of change, by implementing innovative methodologies and working tools, adapted to the contemporary society. So it turns out the need for a highly sustainable, highly competitive human resource to prepare students for a changing world. Therefore, the training course attended by 3 CJRAE Iași experts, as well as the valorization of the skills developed during the training program, successfully answered these needs. In a first stage, the follow-up activities were materialized in the elaboration of a practical guide for disseminating the accumulated expertise. Then, 4 workshops addressed to a no. of 42 school counselors, centered on: strategies for strengthening the roles of facilitator interpersonal relationships and change in school, modalities of social integration of pupils from disadvantaged groups, optimization of school-pupils-parents communication, collaboration of pupils, parents and teachers and building of ”change teams”. Subsequently, 2 workshops were organized in which 46 teachers participated, who received practical, interactive tools, which helped them to become agents of change in schools. Also, in partnership with 3 educational institutions, a program of counseling and psycho-pedagogical assistance was implemented in each school, which included 6 working sessions, attended by 32 parents, 34 students, 30 teachers (a total of 96 persons) and which was focused on the ways of collaborative learning and building change teams. Within the ”Smart vacation” Summer School to facilitate the school transition, was organized a team building workshop dedicated to a no. of 16 students from the rural area. We appreciate that the project generated plus-value through: deficiency of balancing the competences of the school counselors and, implicitly, a risk to the care are exposed the students, elaborates a resource of support for unity and innovations, the encouragement of the educational partnership and the active involvement of a triad teacher -parents in how to build change in education.