Managing Social Relations in Education: A Project Overview

Open Discovery Space 2016, Summer Academy @MINDSET: Managing Social Relations Ellinogermaniki Agogi Research and Development Department Dr. Anna Zoakou 2014-1 -UK01-KA200-001766

Outline of the presentation Presentation of the project @mindset curriculum thematic axes @mindset outputs Group activity 2014-1 -UK01-KA200-001766

Presentation of the project Erasmus+ program, 2014- 2016 Partner countries: Greece, Turkey, Spain, UK, Austria, Italy. Aims: actively support diversity management within education settings, by equipping teachers with the appropriate tools to deal with diversity issues encourage students to become active citizens and empathizing adults identify the most common types of diversity in the school environment develop the tools for the teachers to manage diversity within classroom promote the issue of diversity and what it entails within society for pupils and help them embrace it Exercise inclusion practices 2014-1 -UK01-KA200-001766

@mindset curriculum- thematic axes (I) Unit 1: School as a Social Institution- working on emotional intelligence Unit 2: Managing Diversity applications and implementation principles Principles related to diversity: Strategies for managing diversity: in the classroom: Mediation and conflict resolution Tools for managing diversity Basic facilitation and mentoring skills Attentive listening techniques Sustainable approaches to managing diversity 2014-1 -UK01-KA200-001766

@mindset curriculum- thematic axes (II) Unit 3: Diversity as a source for learning and a base for democracy Introduction to action-research and participatory methods Workshops/team activities on participatory methods in the school environment Analysis of case-studies relating management in education Unit 4: Fighting issues of discrimination and bullying Identification of bullying and discrimination How these phenomena are expressed in school environment depending on certain conditions (individual, peer, family, school and community factors) How to identify, prevent and tackle phenomena of bullying and discrimination Dos and Don ts for and an effective management, de-escalation of students behavior, the role of educators, bystanders, parents- adults etc. Identification of good practices ; sharing of experiences and opinions to good practices of diversity 2014-1 -UK01-KA200-001766

@mindset curriculum- thematic axes (III) Unit 5: Mediation and conflict resolution techniques Definition of conflict Causes for conflicts Phases within a conflict Different resolution models (and its strategies) Cultural differences which condition conflicts and resolutions All units are available in 5 languages (EN, GR, GE, TR, IT, SP) in the project website http://bdfprojects.wix.com/mindset All units are accompanied by series of hands on activities / case studies thematically related, that can be easily implemented by teachers available at http://bdfprojects.wix.com/mindset#!activitiesbank/cjkp 2014-1 -UK01-KA200-001766

@mindset curriculum Didactic Manual on Diversity Social inclusion, diversity and education diversity issues in the European context legislation on social inclusion in Europe 2014-1 -UK01-KA200-001766

@mindset training Within the framework of the project a series of training workshop were organized, which more than 80 teachers attended Workshops focused mainly antibullying and inclusion strategy Teachers delivered their demonstrating how a learning plan advocating inclusion and acceptance could be delivered and then fit in the curriculum. More than 80 learning plans have been delivered, covering primary, secondary education and a great variety of topics. on conflict resolution, own learning activities, 2014-1 -UK01-KA200-001766

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Hands on activity Handling bullying, racism and discrimination Go through the hands outs Work in groups for 10 minutes Group discussion 2014-1 -UK01-KA200-001766

Thanks a lot for our attention! 2014-1 -UK01-KA200-001766