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The Portuguese National Agency’s Perspective. Meeting the Challenge of the multicultural classroom (MCMC) Conference 26th April 2013, Goldsmiths University of London. The Portuguese National Agency’s Perspective : . Key concepts for A GOOD recipe. the PAN
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The Portuguese NationalAgency’sPerspective Meeting theChallengeofthe multicultural classroom (MCMC) Conference 26th April 2013, GoldsmithsUniversityof London
The Portuguese NationalAgency’sPerspective: Keyconcepts for A GOOD recipe the PAN the CORE ingredients the SEASONING
1. THE PANIn the last decades, several EU Programmes changed Education and Training national systems and policies all over Europe. Why?
Because the European project has becomemore open and diverse allowing new stakeholders to participate in it
Because European Programmes have become more demanding and qualified requiring excellence of participants and networks
Because European programmes have strengthened their social dimension by sharing European values and assuring the participation of several minorities
We cannot make the EU without citizens, we can only make the EU with the citizens and with their ideas. Viviane Reding, 2013 EU Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship
2. THE CORE INGRDIENTSIn recent years, COMENIUS REGIO changed the range of cross-border cooperation. Why?
Core ingredient 1|Strategic partnershipInvolvementof school leaders, education authorities, other stakeholders that actively contribute to school educationCommitment by the institutions involvedValorisationof the resultsSustainability of the partnership
Core ingredient 2 | Co-operation on the development of school educationDevelopment and implementation of joint initiativesPromotion of exchanges of experiencePromotion of exchanges of know-how
Core ingredient 3 | European strategyLinking the planned activities to a European strategyIncluding Europe in the institutions’ development plan
Core ingredient 4 | Learning mobilityStaff mobility (teachers; management staff; policy makers)Professional developmentNon-formal learning
Studiesonthecontributionofstaff mobilityto achievethegoalsoftheLisbonTreaty:1Weakness Institutional impactWhy?- lack of institutional initiative- lack of institutional involvement- logistic obstacles: authorizations/replacements Core ingredient 4 | Learning mobility
“IST-participants from schools and organisations which made use of Comenius In-Service Training in a strategic way, i.e. as an instrument for internationalisation or for staff development,stated considerably more often an impact at the institutional level. The effects are particularly high in schools and organisations which used Comenius for both internationalisationand staff development.” Study of the impact of Comenius In-Service Training activities- Executive Summary -Friedhelm Maiworm, Heiko Kastner and Hartmut WenzelStudy on behalf of the European Commission, DG Education and CultureKassel 2010
The Portuguese NationalAgency’sPerspective:MCMC has become a flagship Comenius Regio Project in PT. Why?
The Portuguese NationalAgency’sPerspective: MCMC Project • the PAN • the CORE ingredients • the SEASONING
3. Theseasoning “Job Shadowing: typeofprofessionaldevelopmentthatworks as anassistantship/ a traineeship/ a periodofobservationofactivitiesof a colleaguewithananalogue job, butimpliesinvolvementin theactivitiesand a professionalcriticaldialogueontheactivitiesperformed.” Agência Nacional PROALV,Conference onnewtypesofprofessionaldevelopment - Job Shadowing, 2009
REDEFINITION ofProfessional Development Job shadowing adds: - involvement - experimentation - sharing practices • professionalcritical dialogue Job shadowing in LLP includes: • European dimension • the use of a foreign language
PT COMENIUS ISTApprovedapplications, bytypeof training MCMC Regio
PT Job Shadowing, per host country Southwark
Vera Caeiro PT Comenius Team – Portuguese NA vcaeiro@proalv.pt • www.proalv.pt agencianacional@proalv.pt • Telf.: +351 213 944 760