Training Course T1

From the 22nd to the 24th of January, 2019, ISJ Alba has carried out the first 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, 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, 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 “Performance Through Learning. Student Centred Teaching” and was provided by a team of experts from Romania and Norway. During the plenary sessions and the workshops, the teachers acquired the necessary abilities and competences in order to be proficient in including the Romany students and in promoting an inclusive environment. Their training was centred on presenting and practising innovative methods of teaching so they could motivate and attract both teachers and students.

The General School Inspector, Mrs. Eugenia-Marcela Dărămuș, went on to state that: “The abilities acquired by the teachers during this activity, and also the ones to come, will help us devise six optional curricula which will address the need of modernizing the teaching-learning methods in use and assure the inclusion in the Romanian education system of those children who belong to vulnerable groups.”