Transcript “The Right to Education for Every Child: Removing Barriers and Fostering Inclusion for Roma Children” Belgrade, June 2-3, 2009 Supportive School and Classroom Environment Ministry of.

“The Right to Education for Every Child:
Removing Barriers and Fostering Inclusion
for Roma Children”
Belgrade, June 2-3, 2009
Supportive School and Classroom
Environment
Ministry of Education and Science - Bulgaria
What must to do the ministry?
*Discussion paper for decentralization of education, prepared by expert group from OSI, Bulgaria and LGI Budapest
The „Systemic environment” of schools
Quality evaluation
Governance /
management
Textbooks and
teaching materials
Curriculum and
standards
Allocation of financial
resurces
Initial and in-service
teacher training
Information system
Research &
Development
Responsibilities of the school
*Discussion paper for decentralization of education, prepared by expert group from OSI, Bulgaria and LGI Budapest
Organizational
activties
Core educational
activities
Core service
results
Adjusting
organizational
processes
Adusting internal
allocation of
resources
Adjusting school
program
Adjusting human
resource
management
Adjusting the
organization of
learning
Adjusting teaching
materials
Adjusting teaching
methodologies
Adjusting technical
facilities
Desired learning
outcomes
What have we done to ensure adequate
systemic environment for schools?
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Policy development
Allocation of financial resources
Curriculum development and standards
Pre- and in-service training
Development of teaching materials
Research and information systems
Policy development
1. Action Plan to the Decade of Inclusion of Roma
(2005-2015) - section on education with following
objectives:
• Ensuring legal guarantees for equal integration and
an institutional mechanism for the adequate
integration of Roma children through amendments to
the legal framework
• Creating conditions for equality and adaptation of
Roma children within the new educational
environment
• Desegregating schools and pre-schools in Roma
settlements
• Reducing drop-outs, and reintegrating children who
have already dropped out
• Promoting Roma culture and traditions
• Improving attitudes towards Roma in the school
community
Policy development
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2. “Strategy for educational integration of children and students
from ethnic minorities” whit specific strategic objectives:
Full integration of Roma children in ethnic mixed groups in
kindergartens and of Roma students in ethnically mixed classes
in schools (adoptive) outside Roma neighbourhoods
Improvement of the material and technical conditions in the
integrating (adoptive) kindergartens and schools and
improvement of the quality of education in them
Qualification and re-qualification of teachers to work in
mixed classes
Elimination of the practice to put normally developed children
into specialised schools
Counteracting to acts of discrimination in kindergartens and
schools
Establishment of legal base and educational conditions for
qualitative learning of Roma mother tongue
Training of qualified teachers of Roma language
Introducing the position of assistant teacher into the preparatory
group, preparatory class and first class
Literalisation of elder illiterate Roma.
Policy development
3. Creation of annual database to allow for
the inclusive kindergartens and schools to
manage the process of desegregation to
the MOES.
Number of integrating schools - 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 years
298
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290
280
262
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240
2006/2007
2007/2008
Allocation of financial resources
1. Center for educational integration of students from
/Roma/ minority established. The Center provides grants
to schools amounting to €1 000 000 approximately. Most
of the submitted projects are intended to increase the
knowledge for Roma culture and provide for intercultural
education.
2. Development of project “No school bell needed” for the
students enrolled in 1 – 4 school grades, which
experience difficulties in learning, arising from their poor
knowledge of Bulgarian language. The project builds
capacity of 1000 teachers to support the achievement of
learning outcomes with children. The program amount is
app. 1 000 000 €.
3. Development of the National program “With care for
every child” for additional teaching time for students in 5 –
8 school grades to achieve better learning outcomes and
ensure prevention of students’ drop-out. The grants are
allocated to every school that shows lower outcomes
during the external evaluation. The program amount is
app. 1 000 000 €.
Allocation of financial resources
4. Human resources development
program under structural funds:
Grant scheme Promotion intercultural
education and inclusion – app. 2 500 000
euro.
5. Human resources development
program under structural funds :
Grant scheme for out of school activities –
app. 5 000 000 euro for 2007/2008 and
app. 9 000 000 euro for 2009/2010.
Allocation of financial resources
6. Setting up of assisting groups of the learning
process in extracurricural forms across the schools
with
prevailing number of Roma students and
integrating schools
Number of groups in 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 years
1225
1500
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578
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2006/2007 г.
Roma schools
2007/2008 г.
Integratin school
Teachers Qualifications
1. Pre-service trainings:
• to include the modules for intercultural
education and competences in
Bachelor’s degree programs;
• to establish a Center for support of
intercultural education in Sofia
University;
• to develop a Master’s degree program.
Teachers Qualifications
2. In-service teacher trainings in the field of intercultural education –
more than 2000 teachers and experts have attended different
workshops.
To ensure more stability, we used the school-team approach and
municipality-based approach. Thus, the seminars equip teachers
with the necessary skills leading to their awareness-raising of the
need to build up partnerships, develop participatory approaches,
improve their school environment and acquire knowledge, skills,
values, experiences, which will enable them to act - individually and
collectively – to find appropriate solutions to present and future
school problems/issues, related to the school environment.
In order to enhance the classroom management, the following main
objectives need to be achieved:
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respect for learners and their needs;
encouragement of participation;
create positive learning experience;
use the praise and avoid using threats;
encouragement of the personal integrity and self-esteem.
Teaching materials development
• RAMO – Development of intercultural
experience
• Roma folklore
• Education without prejudices
• Intercultural education
• Positive management of classroom
• Intercultural environment and
interactive methods
• How to work better whit family
• What I can to do whit my child
Main problems
• Lack of instruments for quality evaluation
• Lack of standards for intercultural
development
• Lack of researches and professional analysis
• Lack of flexibility of the educational services
• Lack of systematic professional services to
support school policy
• Insufficient participation of parents and local
communities
Thank you!