BackgroundThe project idea is born by the need of answer to the topic “Migrants: new trainers’ educational needs”, faced by the EPALE national seminary (Catania 2015). In fact, this seminary has marked how much the immigrants’ training involves new professional upgrading needs for those who work in the adult immigrants training structures, related to communicative and relational skills which would help trainers to effectively face the challenges made by the interaction with groups – classroom – with relevant cultural and personal experiences differences.Objectives“TALKING” aims to the overall objective of having an impact on the educational system of adults as improvement of the teaching/learning processes’ quality of training path for immigrants through the knocking down of gap and difficulties made by the interaction with group – classroom with relevant cultural and personal experiences differences. Thus, the specific objective of the project is the competences upgrading of teachers and trainers involved in training activities toward immigrants.ParticipantsThe direct target group involves:- teachers/trainers who work in the European adult training institute, partner of the project;- immigrants whom the training path, delivered by the partner institutes, are addressed;The indirect target group is:- professionals of the adult education field;- Transactional Analysis professionals;- NGO (associations, religious institutions, etc.);- Public entities, considering that the project aims at supporting their inclusion policies.Activities’ DescriptionThe project foresees the implementation of the following activities:- O1 (training path for teachers): development of a training path for teachers/trainers of adult immigrants education centers using AT as best practices in the education field;- O2 (web community platform): design and implementation of an online platform for the spread of the developed methodology, of the project products and of the open educational resources (OER), and for the awareness improvement on the adult immigrants education topic;- Training as Joint Staff Training Event (C1);- Dissemination activities in the number of 5 multipliers event in the countries represented by the participating organizations.Methodology for the project developmentThe development of the training path for teachers is the output of a set of activities.- sharing of the methodological structure among partners at local level;- systematization of existing best practices in the field of adult immigrants education;- comparison with stakeholders through focus group at local level;- implementation of training contents;- alignment of the best practices with the methodology;- systematization of the training path, necessary for the implementation of the next training action (Joint Staff Training Event);- training evaluation;- training pilot;- pilot evaluation;- definition of guidelines about the teaching/learning processes for trainers;- analysis of case studies.The project foresees the development of an online platform for the peer learning (O2) useful for the spread of O1’s products and for their updating thanks to the access on the platform by users from the whole community of trainers/teachers and headmasters of the institutes which work in the adult immigrants education field. The development of the platform foresees the following activities:- needs’ analysis,- design,- implementation,- test.The project foresees the delivery of 5 multipliers events (E1-E5).Results- competences’ upgrading of teachers/trainers involved in training activities toward immigrant people;- innovative methodology for the handling of the educational relationship with adult immigrants;- improvement of teaching/learning processes’ quality of the training path addressed to immigrants.Expected impact:- teachers/trainers: they will implement effective educational interventions towards the immigrant;- immigrants involved in the project: they will benefit from training path tailored on the effective arising needs;- involved adult education centers: they could put the implemented methodology in their own programmes of teachers/trainers upgrading;- involved training centers: they will improve the quality and the supply of the delivered training path.Potential long-term beneficiaries:- professionals of the field who for various reasons work in favour of the immigrants;- NGO (associations, religious institutions);- Public entities;- Adult education system.
TALKING project originates from the intent to respond to the theme dealt with by the EPALE National Seminar "Migrants: new educational needs of trainers" (Catania 2015), namely the need for professional updating for those working in the training centres for immigrant adults and requiring communicative and relational competences and skills to deal effectively the difficulties arising from interaction with groups with relevant cultural and personal differences. The overall aim of the project is to produce an impact on adult education system by improving the quality of Teaching/Learning processes for training courses for immigrants through keeling over the transcultural gaps and relational difficulties and its specific objective is to update the skills of teachers and trainers engaged in training with immigrants. Seven are the partner organizations/institutions of the project: - IFREP 93 (Institute for Training and Research for Educators and Psychotherapists 1993), training and research in health field- Italy - CPIA 3 Roma (Adult Education Provincial Centre 3 Roma)-Italy - CONSORZIO RO. MA., vocational training-Italy - EELI (European education and Learning Institute), adult education-Greece - MBM TDC (Training and Development Center), Career Development center-the UK - IMPEFE (Municipal Institute for Economic, Formative and occupational promotion), local government-Spain - RIC NM (Centre for Educational Development Novo Mesto), adult education-Slovenia The main activities undertaken in the project are: O1-Construction of the TRAINING PATH for teachers/trainers of education centres for adult migrants in key AT, as good practice in the field of education, through the following activities: . TA methodology sharing; . systematisation of existing good practice in the field of education of immigrant adults; . local comparison with stakeholders through focus groups . Implementation of training content; . alignment of good practices with TA methodology . systematization of the TRAINING PATH content C1 - a seven days Joint staff training event for tachers / trainers at Rethymno (Greece) . Pilots of training applied in adult education centres . definition of guidelines on teaching/learning processes for trainers . analysis and reporting of case studies . direct consultation among partners in 5 transnational meetings and 5 online meetings. . wide dissemination activities of the project results through leaflets, brochures, articles, presentations, newsletters and 5 multiplier events, at the end of the project, in the partner countries for the dissemination of the project results among the stakeholders. O2-Realization and implementation of the web TALKING COMMUNITY PLATFORM for the dissemination of methodology, project results (O1 Path) and educational resources (OER) supported by the analysis of the teachers/trainers needs, design, implementation and testing of the platform and at last dissemination of the Talking Website and Platform. The main results obtained through the TALKING Project are the updating of the competences of teachers/trainers, an innovative methodology for the management of the educational relationship with immigrant adults and improvement of the quality of teaching/learning processes. The impact achieved through the project is that the teachers/trainers involved in the project have implemented effective educational interventions within the educational relationship with the migrant, the immigrants involved in the project benefited from educational pathways built on their expressed needs, the adult education institutions involved were able to incorporate the methodology implemented by the project into their teachers/trainers' refresher programmes and the training institutes involved have improved the quality and the supply of the training courses provided. The long-term benefits expected from the project are: - adoption of the new methodology by professionals working in favor of immigrants, teachers, NGOs, public bodies involved in the project - use of the "Training Path for Teachers" by the Cpias for the updating of the teachers/trainers - inclusion of the project results in the training offer of the professional centres - inclusion of the Training Path modules in training programmes for IFREP 93 educators - availability and use of the project products through free access to the web training resources of the web Talking Community platform Talking partnership has undertaken to maintain the online platform fully operational for 5 years after the completion of the project, thus posing the basis for a possible follow - up project.