Training Course T3

From the 20th to the 22nd of February and the 1st to the 5th of March, 2019, ISJ Alba has carried out the third teacher training course activity, which was attended by teachers from the six partner schools in the Project “Learning Together”” (contract no. 2018-EY-PICR-R1-0006):

1. “Avram Iancu” Secondary School (Unirea, Alba county)

2. “Simion Balint” Secondary School (Roșia Montană) / “Cloșca” Secondary School Structure (Cărpiniș, Alba county)

3. “Simion Lazăr” Secondary School (Lunca Mureșului, Alba county)

4. “Ștefan cel Mare” Secondary School (Cetatea de Baltă, Alba county)

5. Jidvei Technological High School (Alba county)

6. “Simion Bărnuțiu” Secondary School (Blaj-Tiur) / “Ion Micu Moldovan” Secondary School Structure (Blaj, Alba county)

​This project is being funded with 174.426 Euros, through the programme “Education, Scholarships, Apprenticeship and the young people’s Entrepreneurship in Romania”, through the SEE grants, the financial mechanism 2014-2021 and it targets to:

• training teachers in areas such as: promoting an inclusive school and teaching in a multicultural environment, democracy, tolerance and anti-discrimination

• organising various awareness raising and outreach activities for the Romany and non-Romany parents

• organising extracurricular activities for the Romany and non-Romany children, in order to raise the inclusion rate and their social competence.

The training of the 72 academic staff from the partner schools has targeted “Active Citizenship. Democracy and Education for an Active Citizenship” and was provided by a team of experts from Romania. During the plenary sessions and the workshops, the teachers acquired the necessary abilities and competences in order to help the students explore the active citizenship as well as face the ambiguities, complexities and the responsibilities that come with being an active member of society. The training was based on presenting and using the active-participative methods of teaching in order to attract and motivate the students to take part in the school activities, experiencing democracy and active citizenship-related knowledge, attitudes and specific behaviour.

The General School Inspector, Mrs. Eugenia-Marcela Dărămuș, went on to state that: “The training activity offered support for the teachers so they could, in turn, provide help for the students, helping them experience democracy through the teaching-learning methods of today, which could attract and motivate the students to take part in school activities, in the multicultural environment of an inclusive school, exploring various expressions of the active citizenship.”