School langage Learning for Inclusive Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

School langage Learning for Inclusive Education

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Inclusion – equity; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

The GRIET project (Transnational Group for Inclusive Education)is part of the program Erasmus+ as a Strategic partnership in the education sector for innovation and good practices.

It aims to enable education staff to develop strategies for pupils with language difficulties, whether they are new comers and speak another language or they are native speakers with a difficulties in literacy. Those pupils have specific needs in order to develop language skills and to find better relationships and trust in schools. The partners in the project based their reflexion on European axes, like the principles edicted in the “Paris declaration” (March 2015)

School staff from Romania, France and United-Kingdom have organized training meetings in order to turn questions into topics, to share and to lead job-shadowing. The team of the participants is diverse : teachers, pastoral staff, head teachers and head masters, supervisors and coordinators. The partnership involves :
– for Romania : the Inspectorat of Bacau county and two schools, the Scoala Gimnaziala in Valea Seaca and the Scoala Gimnaziala Mihai Eminescu in Lespezi, those two schools are involved in the inclusion of children from the roma and the csango community
– for United-Kingdom, the Leeds City Council and the Learning Improvement Team, who deals with coordination, counseling and training tasks for school staff, two primary schools, Hovingham primary school and Bankside primary school, as well as a secondary school, the Co-operative Academy, all of them are based in Leeds and most of their pupils are EAL (English as an additionnal language).
– For France, the Rectorat of Lille, represented by the Dareic (International relations office), the GIP-FCIP who operated the budget management, the Casnav (Academic education center for new comers and travelers), UPE2A programs of Lille (school support for non-French speaker pupils) and a secondary school, the Collège Lamartine in Cambrai where French speaker pupils with special needs are trained into inclusive classes.
The group first aimed to strengthen his approach of the education systems in the 3 countries and of the programs developed to support pupils with language difficulties : how the groups of pupils are made? How can specialized teacher give support ? What kind of jobs and skills can we find ? How are the rooms displayed ? How are the timetables organized?
Then job-shadowing have led to identify and describe the different professional actions : providing visual documents to help communication, language skills exercises, real communication experiences, friendly and caring atmosphere with acknowledge of the progresses. Artistic activites have been suggested (theatre play, singing). The feed-back of the job-shadowing were completed by presentations of University researches on language skills.
A greater awareness of the impact of the pupil’s everyday life led to question the links made with the families and the way to make this link even better. The impact on school attendance and on well being at school is tremendous. School attendance also depends on living standards. The GRIET group shared about the way to support families. Meetings were held with social workers to understand their activity and find the better way to work together. Those workers can be hired by schools, by public entities, by associations or by NGO’s. It makes harder to work together.
During the two years of GRIET project, shareholders have discovered, described and re-used efficient methods. It is a huge issue to deal with “lexical learning in diverse contexts” and it is useful to deal with it with European partners.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 135310 Eur

Project Coordinator

GIP FCIP “Education et Formation tout au long de la vie” & Country: FR

Project Partners

• INSPECTORATUL SCOLAR AL JUDETULUI BACAU
• rectorat academie de Lille
• LEEDS CITY COUNCIL
• Co-operative Academy of Leeds
• Bankside Primary School
• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA MIHAI EMINESCU LESPEZI
• Scoala Gimnaziala Nr.1 Valea Seaca, Bacau