According to are needs:1. adjust the competences of teachers based on continuous and current changes in society 2. innovation of methodology, tools to facilitate integration in the classroomwe will:1. contribute to the continuous development of the teaching staff by creating and organizing a training program for this target group with a focus on the skills needed to respond to the changes in society in general and diversity in the classroom in particular 2. enhance the integration of migrants and minorities by developing a toolbox for teachers with innovative methodologies and tools to differentiate in the classroomOur target groups are the teaching staff on one hand and the migrants and minorities on the other hand.Based on the knowledge and expertise gained during 2 learning activities (one about tools and methods to handle diversity in the classroom, one about organizing continuous development of teaching staff) a toolbox existing of tools and methods to handle diversity and a design for training course will be set up. Both will be tested and evaluated in small groups with the target groups by each partner. The evaluation will be shared among the partners and necessary adjustments will be made. A website where the final results will be available for everyone who is interested will be set up and launched. Agreements on how to keep this up and going after the end of the project will be made. The website will actively be promoted at different target groups on local, national and international level. To make sure that our tools and methods will be implemented as widely as possible in the school we will organise a day of workshops, after the project has ended, in which tools / methods / courses that have been part of the project will be explained, shared, tried and tested with all staff. The designed training course will be organised on a regular base at school level to give all staff members the opportunity to participate in it in order to increase their competences and skills needed to respond to the changes in society in general and diversity in the classroom in particular.
Education today has changed a lot. Our classrooms now have a much more diverse population. The original teachers’ training does not suffice to prepare teachers for the multicultural mixed ability classes that they get to work in. Therefore we worked towards improving the competences of teachers based on continuous and current changes in society and we worked on innovation of methodology: tools to facilitate integration in the classroom. The five partners (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Latvia and Turkey) are all familiar with these new circumstances and worked together to improve the skills and knowledge of teachers in the different schools. We exchanged information so that we could learn from each other’s strengths. Some partners were more experienced in dealing with mixed-ability classrooms, others more with diverse nationalities. Each of our learning activities focused on one of our objectives. During the first one, in Finland, we got acquainted with new tools, demonstrated by the different partners, during the second one, in Latvia, we exchanged good practices to develop teachers’ professionalism according to the needs we detected. Based on the results of the learning activities and to make sure the programme will have an impact on the future, we created two tools. Firstly a training program for the teachers with a focus on the skills needed to respond to the changes in society in general and diversity in the classroom in particular. The second result is a website on which we collected tools to deal with diversity in the classroom. The results can be found on the website.