MAnaging Graduated approach and Including balanced Curriculum for Special Educational Needs Students Erasmus Project

Project Title

MAnaging Graduated approach and Including balanced Curriculum for Special Educational Needs Students

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Pedagogy and didactics; Disabilities – special needs

Project Summary

The situation of students with SEN in Europe is complex, and despite the efforts of the EC, they frequently leave school with few or no qualifications, before moving into specialist training. People with disabilities or SEN are much more likely to be unemployed or economically inactive, and even those who are relatively successful in the job market often earn less than their counterparts. The child with SEN remains far behind in reading-writing or reckoning in comparison with his/her intellectual abilities, with the amount of home and school exercises. Unfortunately, there is a huge number of cases of children with SEN in the partner countries and, the most of them do not have real access to an inclusive education system. Are various causes for this situation (lack of legal framework, lack of material and human resources, bureaucracy, or lack of adapted curriculum). Two key elements for this inclusion process are: teachers’ training and adapted curriculum and educational plans for SEN students.
Given this situation, the MAIN OBJECTIVE of MAGIC SENS was to enhance the skills and competences of teachers, teachers’ trainers and all those subjects from the educational chain in dealing with young people with Special Educational Needs such as specific learning disabilities, specific language problems, ADHD deficit, ASD deficit and Borderline Intellectual Functioning.
The partnership of MAGIC SENS is composed of the following organisations:
– FSLI (ROMANIA) – APPLICANT
– ASOCIATIA BUCURESTI PENTRU COPII DISLEXICI (ROMANIA)
– Centro F.A.R.E. (ITALY)
– FORMA.Azione (ITALY)
– Dyslexia Association of Ireland (IRELAND)
– C.M. SKOULIDI & SIA E.E. (GREECE)
– INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EDUCATION AND TRAINING INSTITUTE – SEV Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (GREECE).
The project actions were focused on:
• Activation of a process of comparison between the countries participating in the project, based on an effective transnational cooperation
• Identification of good practices, legislation and methodologies related to the SEN issues in the partner countries in order to identify the most significant and effective tools, standards and policies that the different countries use and implement
• Sharing of the results through the creation of a SEN Toolkit for teachers
• Definition and creation of an Online Platform dedicated to all subjects from the educational chain that aims to strengthen the network and increase the quality of exchange between the project partners as well as to disseminate and maximize the project results at EU level
• Design and creation of an Online Training for teachers that could be implemented both online and offline, adapting it to the specific national needs and requirements.
• Dissemination of the project results to professionals.
The direct TARGET GROUP of the activities were represented by educational/ training professionals who deal with individuals in the range of age 10 – 18 with SEN such as specific learning disorders, specific language disorders, deficits from attention and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), mild autism spectrum disorder and borderline or limit intellectual functioning. Each teacher/trainer holds primary responsibility for the learning of every student in the class and plays a key role in ensuring that the specific needs of students with disability and additional learning and support needs are met.
MAGIC SENS foresaw the active involvement in a short staff training mobility of at least 24 trainers form the partner organizations and 200 teachers trained in 4 National Trainings. These targets HAVE BEEN EXCEDEED by organizing additional activities with the participation of 43 trainers form the partner organizations and 756 teachers trained and certified in 7 National Trainings (4 languages). The Online Platform has 1318 individual users (direct participants at the project) and one website and 2 facebook pages was created. After the implementation of this project at transnational level we consider that the results contributing at:
• raising awareness on the strengths and weaknesses on the SEN issues in the educational sector;
• facilitating progressive change of the teaching methodologies from a static/ external position – in which the difficulties of a SEN are simply ascertained – to a more dynamic/ active position – in which it is really possible to answer to the needs of students with SEN;
• creating concrete WORKING TOOLS (MIND MAPPING; CURRICULUM ADAPTATION; PERSONALIZED EDUCATIONAL PLAN BY LEARNING UNITS AND STUDY DISCIPLINES) and sharing and exchange of good practices and experiences.
The project achieved the realization of 3 Intellectual Outputs that will be translated in three languages (EN, IT, GR, RO):
1. SEN Toolkit for Teachers; 2. Online Platform; 3. Online Training for Teachers.
Further impact, in a long-term perspective, is represented by the fact that the activities of the project lead towards an overall change in the approach towards subjects with SEN.

Project Website

http://magicsens.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 279424 Eur

Project Coordinator

FSLI & Country: RO

Project Partners

• C.M. SKOULIDI & SIA E.E.
• FORMA.AZIONE SRL
• Dyslexia Association of Ireland
• INSTITOYTO BIOMICHANIKIS KAI EPICHEIRISIAKIS EPIMORFOSIS KAI KATARTISIS SEV SYNDESMOS EPICHEIRISEON KAI BIOMICHANION
• F.A.R.E. srl Centro Formazione Abilitazione Ricerca Educazione
• ASOCIATIA BUCURESTI PENTRU COPII DISLEXICI