Transcript Earning the own Seed

Dortmund, FABIDO and
Experiences concerning the
Assist-Project
Oslo, January 31, 2008
City of Dortmund
588,000 inhabitants
 Located in the Ruhr area in the
State of North Rhine-Westphalia
 Formerly industrial region
 New industries
 Highest quote of children among
top ten German cities
 Districts with very different social
structure
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Westfalenpark and Phoenix
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Westfalenpark and Phoenix (Detail)
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The City’s social structure
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Unemployment
rate
Inhabitants aged
up to 18 years
Social welfare recipients
Living space by inhabitant
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High public awareness
of education and children‘s day care
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Caused by the PISA-Schock (end of 2001): “Abysmal
marks for German students“ (FAZ)
rude awakening and high public attention on education
and pre-school-education
Defined by federal law in 2004, by local statues in 2005
and 2006 and state law in 2007 (Kibiz)
Nevertheless decreasing (or at least unchanging)
resources for education
Increasing demands regarding the kindergarten's tasks
 German language training, foreign language
training
 child protection programs
 documentation of developmental milestones
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FABIDO—facts and figures
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Part of the municipal authority of the City of Dortmund
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Running 108 kindergartens and day-care centres
(40 % of all)
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1,550 employees
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7,700 children
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550 child-minders caring for 900 children (Tagesmütter)
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Kinder-Citytreff within the centre of Dortmund caring for
children up to three hours while parents are shopping or
taking care of other things
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FABIDO—facts and figures
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Certified as family-friendly enterprise
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Process “Aging within profession”
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Rebuilt structure: new regional directors
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Leading and guiding about 12 day care
centres
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Consulting in pedagogical matters
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Recent History of FABIDO
Since 1970
2005
December
2004
Since 2006
2006+2007
2008ff
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every year opening three new day-care
centres
Peak in the mid-nineties: legal claim to a
kindergarten space beginning with the age of
three
FABIDO founded as proprietary enterprise
run by the City of Dortmund
Kinder-Citytreff founded
Conversion of spaces for 1,000 children 6 to
14 years into spaces for Children aged 4
month to 6 years
Rapidly increasing spaces at child-minders
Rebuilding according to Kibiz (new state law)
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Kibiz—New law concerning on
financing and organizing structures
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Slightly different group types concerning the
financial structure
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New distribution of resources, economically more
efficient
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Reorganisation of staff and finances lead to
challenges for our organisation
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Creation of new places for children up to 3
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Better method to adapt to the parent’s needs
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Types of our day care centres
108 day care centres, varying from 20 to
140 children and 2 to 30 employees
Different groups within our institutions
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Mainstream kindergarten groups
(3 to 6 years)
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Full-time kindergarten groups
(3 to 6 years)
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Young age-integrated groups
(2 months to 6 years)
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Group types:
Mainstream Kindergarten
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Part-time care:
7 am to 2 pm or
7 am to 12:30 pm and 2 to 4 pm
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3 years – 6 years
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25 children per group
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In every group:
1 qualified educator
0,5 qualified assistant
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Group types:
Full-time Kindergarten
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Full-time care: 7 am to 5 pm
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3 – 6 years
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20 children per group
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In every group:
1 qualified educator,
1 childcare worker
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Group types:
Young age-integrated group
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Full-time care: 7 am to 5 pm
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2 months – 6 years
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15 children per group
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In every group
2 qualified educators
1 assistant or trainee
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Group types:
Others
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To be discontinued:
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Extended age-integrated groups (3 to
14 years)
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After-school care group (6 to 14 years)
Additional care by childminders
beginning at 6 am, ending at 7.30 pm
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Structure of Employees
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8 % social pedagogues
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62 % qualified educators
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22 % qualified assistants
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8 % kitchen staff
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In addition: trainees
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other assistants (secondary labour market)
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96 % female
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44 % part-time employees
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12 % temporary engagement
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Average age: 40 years
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500 child-minders with different qualifications
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Professions
Preschool assistant—apprenticeship
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Requirement: 9 years of school attendance
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Contains basic pedagogical and nursery topics
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2 years
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Final examination: certified Kinderpflegerin
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Enables to work within children‘s homes and
hospitals, within family welfare work and family
aide
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In kindergartens and day care centres as
supporting staff
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Professions
Qualified Educator—apprenticeship
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Requirement: 10 years of school attendance
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Contains educational and pedagogical topics
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5 years
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Final examination: certified Erzieherin
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Enables to work within day care centres, open
day school and youth work
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In kindergartens and day care centres: within
groups as well as a principal, acting on their own
responsibility
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Professions
Social pedagogues—study
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Requirement: 12 years of school attendance
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Studies at the university of applied science
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4 years
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degree Diplom-Sozialpädagogin
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Enables to work as principals of kindergartens
and day care centres
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Organising both, pedagogical and administrative
daily schedule
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Professions
Additional Staff
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extra personnel in integrative groups
(handicapped and non-handicapped
children)
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trainee in groups without qualified
assistant
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relief staff supporting as substitutes in
case of illness etc.
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Leadership in Day Care Centres
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one principal in each institution
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in institutions with more than 3 groups or 2 full-time
groups the principal does not work in the group
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additionally one assistant principal
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principal can be qualified educator as well as social
pedagogue
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Kitchen staff
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only provided in day care centres and kindergartens
which offer full-time care
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47 kitchens in total
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number of employees depends on number of
children (minimum 1 person, maximum 4)
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Head of kitchen: either 3 years study (dietetics) or 3
years training at vocational training college
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70 unskilled kitchen workers
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each meal is freshly cooked, no ready-made meal
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Social status of child care professions
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Increasing due to the parent‘s increasing demands upon
the staff
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low salary = low recognition
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96 % female
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4 % male, usually working as principals
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Reformation of the professional training of qualified
educators
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Changing political view: from raising to educating
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No graduates from university in the child care groups
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Private and public child care centres
Different bodies running 284 day care centres:
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Protestant church
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Katholik church
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Jewish Community
11 AWO, German Red Cross and others
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108
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Parents‘ Clubs
Municipality (FABIDO)
private companies
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FABIDO—Further education program
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Annual further education program for the whole
staff
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A total of about 70 courses, mostly 16
participants
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Principals are responsible for motivating the staff
to take part in
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FABIDO provides a special amount for every
district (depedent on number of employees) for
inidviual further training courses day care centres
can agree upon on their own
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Further education program
Main Topics I
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Special qualifications (e.g how to talk about difficult
topics with parents)
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Development of children (e.g. special needs of ageintegrated groups, education of children, how to
deal with deviant behaviour and aggression)
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Movement, music, media education
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Language (e.g. acquisition of language, linguistic
development, speech disorder)
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Natural environment and natural science (e.g.
exploratory experiences
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Intercultural competence
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Further education program
Main Topics II
Common education of handicapped and nonhandicapped children
 Health education, nutrition and hygiene (especially
for kitchen staff), first aid
 Computer applications such as Word, Excel,
PowerPoint
 Special trainings for our principals (a total of 6
days, dealing with e.g. their personal leadership
ideas and different types of leadership,
communication, different kinds of dialogues, how to
deal with problems)
 Some courses are mandatory such as hygiene, first
aid, other training is optional
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Further education program
Facts and figures I
Topics can vary according to political demands
(more places for children under 3 may create
other/new demands for educational trainings,
national focus on special education topics like
science or mathematics, support of native
language/second language acquisition
 Engagement of external as well as internal course
instructors
 At minimum, each staff member can attend an inservice training course every one to two years
regardless of their initial professional training
 All costs are covered by FABIDO
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Further education program
Facts and figures II
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A wide range of further training courses offered by
the municipality‘s department of personnel
development (e.g. time management, working
techniques, communication and rhetoric,
behaviour/interaction, leadership, health promotion,
financial management)
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In-service training
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All employees can take part
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Further education program
Curriculum work in day care centres
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2 days per year for curriculum work
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during working hours
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for each kindergarten and day care centre
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the whole team agrees upon one item to be
discussed (e.g. religious customs, Integration,
language acquisition)
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intensive work on pedagogical matters and
childcare opportunities
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FABIDO
Main challenges and efforts
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Transformation into a proprietary enterprise run
by the City of Dortmund
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Rebuilding the internal structure (district
directors), workshop with the leadership and
representatives of the staff (about 200 people)
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Workshop with the whole staff to define the
further FABIDO-strategy (about 1,200 people)
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FABIDO
Main challenges and efforts
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Implementing a new structure for the support of
language acquisition (about 600 children at risk)
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Future legal claim on kindergarten places for children
of 2 years, new places are needed for this group
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Closing the child care groups for school children
(about 1,000 places), to be continued within open day
schools
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Increasing expectations of the parents for qualified
education und preparation for school
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Concerning the Assist project:
Some aspects we already applied
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intensive training supported by in-house
consultants (train the trainer)
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about 10 employees (kindergarten leaders as
well as pre-school-teachers) running
vocational trainings developed on their own
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language trainings
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dances
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relaxing for children
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special demands of 2-years-children in
groups aged 3 to 6
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Concerning the Assist project:
What we are expecting in taking part
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Detailed look into needs of our staff/into our
structure
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Dynamic impulses for our corporate culture
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Experiences of the effect of whole team training
on the corporate culture
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Team development
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Holistic way of education
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Strengthening the idea of lifelong learning
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Gaining knowledge about other countries and
their educational system/day care centres/further
education program
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Concerning the Assist project:
Most useful topics I
You are part of an organisation
 No topic of our further training
program nor in the apprenticeship
Learning for live
 Recognizing the necessity of lifelong
learning
 improving the motivation to take part
in further education programs
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Concerning the Assist project:
Most useful topics II
Communication and interactive
competence
+ The difficult conversation
 Basic needs of our staff, should be
trained as often as possible
 High demand for our courses dealing
with these topics
 Very useful, because it belongs to the
attitude towards the
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Concerning the Assist project:
Most useful topics III
Values and attitudes
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Important all, concerning
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the main basis (human rights)
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the elaborated municipality’s attitude towards
families and children,
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Consequently the teacher’s attitude towards
parents and children
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Concerning the Assist project:
Some questions
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Teachers come from both, pedagogical and
administrative parts of FABIDO
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Possibility to teach more than 25 or 30 employees
within the test phase
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Contact
City of Dortmund
FABIDO
Jens Woelki
Ostwall 64, D-44141 Dortmund
Fone +49-231-5023661
Fax +49-231-5029557
[email protected]