«Protecting Enhancing Participating Educating Informing» (PREPEI)
The 1st meeting of the project was held in Athens
«Protecting Enhancing Participating Educating Informing» (PREPEI)
An innovative approach for the classroom
Athens, 28 February
2017
The 1st meeting of
the project “Protecting Enhancing Participating Educating Informing” coordinated
by “The Smile of the Child” was held in Athens on 24 February 2017.
The
project aims to design innovative interventions in a consolidated effort to
address bullying in the school community and has 33 month duration. Overall, the
project will address the real challenges in an educational environment with the
development of innovative tools, to sustain a further evolution of existing
methodologies.
The project has a
strong European dimension with partners from 5 countries. The Smile of the Child
is the leader of the partnership and other organisations include,
ELLINOGERMANIKI AGOGI (Greece), ASOCIATIA DIRECT (Romania), Associació Catalana
de Formació Polivalent (Spain), Association for equal opportunities SEMPER (FYROM),
Nadja Centre Foundation (Bulgaria). The project’s 1st Management Meeting took
place on 24 February in Athens.
The project will
add value to tools and skills of teachers and improve communication in and out
of the classroom with children, parents and professionals through various
activities, aiming to improving skills and effectiveness of educators and
teachers, awareness raising, skills training addressed to children.
● Video: Production of a video, for the
children with the objective to inform and educate, enhancing positive values and
attitudes in school.
● Development of a
training methodology for teachers in primary and secondary education.
● Production on a manual on best practices on
the subject. It will assist teachers to build activities and awareness in the
classroom.
● Production of e-tool- video
game. The e-game will be developed as a learning tool enhancing values of self
respect, respect of the others, personal integrity, children rights, family
values, etc.
● Production of a website of
the project.
Training activities will include:
● A series of webinars to train teachers,
educators, head of schools, other professionals from the public sector such as
social workers on a range of different topics related to improving skills and
knowledge on the issue
● Training of
trainers based on manual and training methodology. The target group is members
of all partner organizations, or specialists cooperating with them
● Α Workshop for professionals in Fyrom
● A Conference in Spain