Inn2diversity – Innovative tools towards diversity in classroom context Erasmus Project

Project Title

Inn2diversity – Innovative tools towards diversity in classroom context

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

EU remains among the most popular destinations for migrants, asylum seekers & refugees (EU Commission, 2017) and Teachers’ are not prepared for the new paradigm of a Europe that is becoming increasingly diverse. By one hand, European classrooms are becoming more and more diverse, but by the other, teacher profession remains largely homogenous and teachers lack experience in diverse schooling environments. Teachers have difficulties managing classrooms and this is a fact. These difficulties have not only direct impact on their level of satisfaction (and consequently affects negatively the quality of the education offered) but also impacts on pupils educational achievement (that, at long-term, results in ESL, school-prison pipeline and society alienation).
INN2DIVERSITY project focus on 1) preparing teachers for diversity and strengthening healthy relationships by providing to teachers a new non-formal process that stimulate their active engagement in career-long competence development; 2) diminish the application of measures/policies as suspension because suspension rates themselves are predictive of drop-out rates.
Concerning the needs of the targeted group – teachers and pupils – INTO2DIVERSITY proposes a new methodology – mentoring – as a system level approach to empower teachers with managing diversity in classroom strategies & tools to better engage students & transforming teaching in a healthy profession.
INN2DIVERSITY project has 2 main goals:
1) to reinforce competencies of the teachers to deal with complex classroom realities to better manage diversity and keeping students with disruptive behavior and disruptive academic engagement engaged during classroom time, by empowering them with the necessary competencies (based on the Framework of teacher competences for engaging with diversity promoted by the European Commission in 2017) to improve positive relationships between them and this students
2) to create a mentoring model to support schools to transfer and replicate the good practices managing diversity and complex classrooms, and doing so offering them an additional tool to improve teacher’s levels of satisfaction in the classroom; reduce disparities in learning

The project foresees the following objectives:
1)to develop, transfer & implement through transnational cooperation an innovative training curricula on diversity and disruptive classroom behaviors management
2)to identify the suitable profile & personal skills to manage students with disruptive behaviour
3)increase teachers motivation & satisfaction of students’ daily work in school thus contributing to increasing their teaching quality & introducing a virtuous cycle between students’ school achievement & teachers job satisfaction
4)design a mentoring model to empower teachers and schools with the suitable methods, knowledge & skills to deal with daily difficulties at work & to manage students with disruptive behaviours
5) evaluate peer-mentoring effectiveness as an in-service only focused on professional development to promote positive relationships between teachers & disruptive students

During 3 years, INN2DIVERSITY partners will build a set of Intellectual Outputs, namely:
O1 – Report on programmes and measures to support the development of diversity and disruptive classroom behaviors management competences in teacher’s continuous professional enhancement
IO2.Training curricula on diversity and disruptive classroom behaviors management
IO3.Mentors’ Coordinators and Mentors profile
IO4. Courses Curricula for Mentor’s Coordinators and Mentors
IO5. Mentoring programme for effective inclusion

INN2DIVERSITY will try to target all interested parties that have personal, professional, civic, or financial interest or concern. It includes town council networks, education ministry decision makers, school administrators, school board members, teachers, students, parents, families, community members, local business leaders, non-profit association and NGO’s, advocacy groups. These stakeholders will be personally involved in activities related with validation workshops, open seminars and multiplier events
After the project completion is expected
_increased awareness of schools on the needed to put efforts to invest on the qualification of their teachers and to adapt the profession to a continuously changing educational environment;
_teachers more motivated and satisfied due the investment on their needs of deal with diversity in the classroom
_new and tailor-made tool that will allow teachers to self-evaluate themselves and generate awareness on needs of self-development, flexibility and adaptation to new realities
_a mentoring process that can be individually fine-tuning to mentors and mentees
_pupils with the sense of being valued by their diversity

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 411030 Eur

Project Coordinator

Peterborough City Council & Country: UK

Project Partners

• APROXIMAR- COOPERATIVA DE SOLIDARIEDADE SOCIAL, CRL
• SAN GIUSEPPE ONLUS
• AMADORA INOVATION EM UNIPESSOAL LDA
• FONDATSIYA OBRAZOVATELNO SATRUDNICHESTVO
• DIAKONIA-AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY
• COOPERATIVA SOCIALE CEIS FORMAZIONE
• Asociatia Centrul de Cercetare si Formare a Universitatii de Nord Baia Mare