Kompetencje międzykulturowe nauczycieli w wielokulturowych miastach Warszawa-Berlin Erasmus Project

Project Title

Kompetencje międzykulturowe nauczycieli w wielokulturowych miastach Warszawa-Berlin

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Integration of refugees

Project Summary

Project title: ‘The Intercutural Teachers’ Competences in Multicultural Cities Warsaw-Berlin’Programme: ERASMUS+, Action KA2 Strategic Partnerships for School Education – Exchanges of PracticesTarget groups: teachers, pupils, students of pedagogical faculties.Project Duration: 1st of September, 2016 – 31st of August, 2018 Applicant Organisation: Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa – Biuro Edukacji (City of Warsaw, Education Department). The project is implemented in a range of the exchange of good practices in cooperation with Senatsverwaltung für Bildung, Jugend und Wissenschaft Berlin (Senate of Berlin).Partner Organisations: schools from both partner regions on three levels of education system (primary schools, lower secondary schools and upper secondary schools), pedagogical university, in-service teacher training centre and non-governmental organisations.The objectives of the project: Target group ‘Teachers’:preparing teachers for effective work with pupils, including: development of cultural and intercultural competences; raising competences with regards to methods of pedagogical work in a multicultural classroom, accounting for cultural differences and similarities; raising competences with regards to didactic work, including improving skills of modifying curricula including intercultural content; updating a system of support for teachers working in multicultural schools/classrooms.Target group ‘Students of pedagogical faculties’:preparation for work in a multicultural classroom/school, including: development of cultural and intercultural competences; sensitizing students to the cultural context of the student, including cultural differences appearing in a shifting school environment.Target group ‘Pupils’:preparation for life in a changing society, including fostering attitudes of openness, tolerance and social commitment and involving them in the integration process of migrant pupils; creation of favourable conditions for development and education in a multicultural classroom; introduction of a peer tutoring model – peer assistance in entering a new school environment.The results of the project:- the development of the model of assessment of foreign/refugee students, taking account of the language barrier,- introduction of a peer tutoring model – peer assistance in entering a new school environment, – development of tools supporting teachers working with migrant pupils, such as: ‘Good Practice Guidance on the methods and tools of working in intercultural school addressed to headteachers and teachers’,- updating the assumptions of a model system of support for teachers working in multicultural schools/classrooms (teacher networking) – among others, the appointment of the Warsaw – Berlin Network of Teacher Working with Migrant Pupils,- exchange of good practices in a range of a model of cooperation between a school and an NGO,- updating the assumptions of a model of educating future teachers including intercultural education and its dissamination,- use of social campaigns in the scope of multiculturalism, as a model for social dialogue.The main adopted methods of implementing project activities are: the exchange of good practices, including use of the ‘job shadowing’, the development of tools supporting teachers working with migrant pupils, the dissemination of materials through the e-learning, eTwinning type platform and through the partner institutions’ websites. All above-mentioned project results will bring a long-term impact on all participating institutions and the target audiencies of the dissemination activities implementing on a regional, national and European level.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 119120,55 Eur

Project Coordinator

Miasto Stoleczne Warszawa & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Robert-Jungk-Oberschule
• Katharina-Heinroth-Grundschule
• EBB Europaberatung GmbH
• Szkola Podstawowa Nr 221 z Oddzialami Integracyjnymi im. Barbary Bronislawy Czarnowskiej
• Warszawskie Centrum Innowacji Edukacyjno-Spolecznych i Szkolen
• Schiller-Gymnasium
• Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej