Lucia Elena Petrescu azi_today2003@yahoo.co.uk EuroEd Foundation Iasi

1. Lucia Elena Petrescuazi_today2003@yahoo.co.ukEuroEd Foundation Iasi

2. Developing family learning,  study support and the teaching of foreign languages to young learners

3. Developing family learning,  study support

4. “In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” Al. Rogers

6. European policies: • setting people on the path to a lifetime of learning • ensuring open and democratic societies by training people in citizenship, solidarity and participative democracy • providing adults with ways to improve their knowledge and skills • Keeping them mentally fit and potentially more employable

7. Target groups: • families • teachers • trainers • educational staff

8. Family learning: • informal and formal learning that involves more than one generation

9. Family learning: • creating a host of fresh opportunities to pursue previously thwarted ambitions.

10. Family learning: • a range of roles that illustrate the changes and different aspects of support need in the 21st century

12. Family learning: • raise awareness on family members’ roles and their importance for everyone’s welfare

14. Family learning: • Child education

16. Family learning: • disadvantaged background for both parents and children

18. Issues facing society

19. Update experience and maximize new informational acquisitions

21. Family learning and study support: • EFLN • FACE IT! • NOCHILDLB

22. European Family Learning Network • Grundtvig 4 programme • From 2006- 2009 Partners: • Finland • France • Germany • Ireland • Italy • Norway • Poland • Romania • Slovenia • UK

23. European Family Learning Network • Meeting the priorities of the EU: • Access to and participation in lifelong learning for all, including disadvantaged people should be promoted and improved at national and community level • Reduce poverty and social exclusion among marginalized groups. • improve people's skills and help them towards active citizenship and personal autonomy

24. European Family Learning Network Key words: • network • sharing • trainers • policy makers

25. European Family Learning Network Objectives: • Develop an advocacy and dissemination strategy. • Create and maintain a high quality website • Create a European Family Learning publication to promote the benefits of a Family Learning approach

26. European Family Learning Network Aspects: • Family members learning together • Stages of family life • Relationships, roles • Taking responsibility in a wider society

27. European Family Learning Network Actions: • Inaugural Network planning meeting.(October 2006 London, UK) • Network planning meeting. (May 2007 Marseille, France) Seminar on Family Learning and social inclusion, working with migrant families • Network planning meeting(November 2007 Genova, Italy) Seminar on Parental Involvement • Network planning meeting(May 2008 Karjaa, Finland) Seminar on Family Learning and Citizenship • Network planning meeting. (October 2008 Iasi, Romania) • Seminar on national network and infrastructure development • Conference and dissemination event (June 2009 Birmingham, UK )

28. www.efln.eu

29. Room for local implementation?... Would you need to implement these ideas in your area? What would be the best way of doing that? Who would benefit from them?

30. FACE IT !Families and Active Citizenship Education, an Integrated Training • Grundtvig 1 programme • From Oct.2006 to Sept. 2008 • Partners: • Romania • United kingdom • France • Italy • Ireland

31. FACE IT !Families and Active Citizenship Education, an Integrated Training Meeting the priorities of the EU: • FACE IT ! aims to pool existing experience and expertise and develop a sustainable Life Long Learning and Family Learning educational tool to promote Active Citizenship and Participatory Democracy in migrant/socially isolated or disadvantaged families

32. FACE IT !Families and Active Citizenship Education, an Integrated Training Objectives: • increasing skills and knowledge in the areas of Active Citizenship and Participatory Democracy and Family Learning • creating a trainer training programme and accompanying toolkit • designing materials to attract hard-to-reach learners • bringing disadvantaged and isolated families into education

33. FACE IT !Families and Active Citizenship Education, an Integrated Training Key words: • Involvement • Communities • Development • Empowering people • Challenge

34. FACE IT !Families and Active Citizenship Education, an Integrated Training Active citizenship: • active involvement of individuals in public life and affairs • developing the skills, knowledge and understanding • making informed decisions about their communities and workplaces • improving the quality of life

35. FACE IT !Families and Active Citizenship Education, an Integrated Training Actions: • Research(Oct 06 – Mar 07 ) • Course design(Mar 07 – Jul 07 ) • Testing(Aug 07 – Sep 07 ) • 1st FACE IT ! International Trainer Training (Sep 07 – Nov 07 (2 weeks) ) • 2nd FACE IT ! International Trainer Training(Nov 07 – Jan 08 (2 weeks) ) • Pilot National FACE IT !(Mar 08 – May 08 ) • FACE IT ! International Conference (May 08 – Jul 08 ) • More FACE IT ! national training (Jul 08 – Sep 08)

36. www.faceitproject.org

37. Room for local implementation?... Would you need to implement these ideas in your area? What would be the best way of doing that? Who would benefit from them?

38. No Child Left Behind • Comenius programme • From 2007 to 2009 • Partners: • United Kingdom • Spain • Lithuania • Romania • Poland

39. No Child Left Behind • Meeting the priorities of the EU: • The project establishes a discipline during the school years of instilling a “thirst for learning” • It follows a thread of European cultural context and it contextualizes the learning making it meaningful

40. No Child Left Behind • It develops employability skills amongst participants: creativity, self-esteem, confidence and achievement • Teachers are provided with previously untried or undiscovered methodologies shared via national and international networks

41. No Child Left Behind • Key words: • Thirst for learning • Life skills • Achievement • Adapted methodology

42. No Child Left Behind • Objectives: • To improve achievement • Equip young people with life skills • Offer a contextualized learning so that the learners would understand its benefits

43. No Child Left Behind • Actions: • Piloting the training package • Adjusting the programme according to the partners • Piloting the training with each partner • Evaluating the training (trainees, trainers, individual observer) • Readjust the training • Creating support materials

44. Room for local implementation?... Would you need to implement these ideas in your area? What would be the best way of doing that? Who would benefit from them?

45. The role and importance of family learning and study support

46. What do these projects change? • Understanding the need of being up to date with the new society and its requirements • Offering a general view on the wider European community and thus having better understanding of personal characteristics • Promoting self awareness and self confidence • Encouraging intergenerational support • Putting theory to practice through useful activities • Supporting practitioners

47. Target groups • Trainers • Adults members of the family • Children • Local policy makers

48. Room for local implementation?... Would you need to implement these ideas in your area? What would be the best way of doing that? Who would benefit from them?

49. The teaching of foreign languages to young learners