Two Objectives
- to provide an opportunity for teacher education on gender equality including pedagogical aspects/approaches, culturally sensitive education, transformative learning and cultural diplomacy in the classroom, school and the community and
- to empower teachers to apply what they learn with competences in the design of lessons/initiatives/activities that engage students ages 6-10 years of age and the persons within their immediate background (household etc.).
This Work Package includes the design of the training module, testing it and, later in the project lifetime add to it:
- a Toolbox (WP3) that supports teachers to apply what they learn in the training module and
- narratives of beneficiaries who have used the Toolbox to design (and also tested) lessons/activities in the classroom and the school so that the training has resources of more relevance for future learners.
Results
- a fact finding DESK RESEARCH on obtaining scenarios in gender equality awareness, stereotyping, classroom and school dynamics, demographics around and within the schools and the partners and
- a TEACHER EDUCATION TRAINING MODULE on gender equality education for primary schools that will be tested with at least 70 learners including present and future educators and non teaching school staff.
The training module will be of between 18 to 20 hours equivalent to EQF Level 2 and it will be:
- designed and delivered mainly by CSI and UNIC on pedagogy and culturally sensitive education and by Synkoino Coop and LABA on cultural diplomacy in the school and in the community,
- available online on the platform/s of CSI and/or UNIC with recorded video lessons with some lessons in
lecture/presentation frontal format and some in workshop format,
- having lessons in workshop format that will be delivered and filmed during two rounds of training of participants from the partners to make the online course alive and dynamic,
- modular so that a teacher education provider can choose to deliver part in presence and part having learners follow the rest of the module online,
- providing for work-life balance of participants with lessons that are not too long, allowing time to finish the training hence the span of time allowed in the project timetable for the testing,
- closely linked with the Toolbox produced in Work Package 3 since the Toolbox enables teachers to put what they learn into practice and
- including beneficiaries' narratives about the use of the Toolbox to design lessons/initiatives/activities in cultural diplomacy on gender equality education in schools so that content is made more relevant through peer learning for learners during and beyond the project lifetime and partnership.
Partners' Roles
CSI and UNIC will be the leaders of this Work Package since they are the two teacher education providers in the
partnership with expertise required for the main parts of the training module.
- Desk Research: CSI and UNIC will lead this activity with ValIda leading collection of partners' input (and starting up the Community of Learning)
- Design of Training Module: Mostly led by CSI and UNIC but tapping expertise and experience in cultural diplomacy, culturally sensitive education, intercultural education etc. from the partnership especially LABA and Synkoino Coop.
- Production of Module: experts from CSI, UNIC, LABA and Synkoino Coop delivering workshops and recording with Idea Malta taking care of all the recording and post production. CSI and UNIC will put training online with quiz/tools for validation.
- 2 Rounds of training (CSI and UNIC hosting the two rounds) with partners' minimum participation as follows:
CSI: 2 lecturers and 7 students
UNIC: 2 lecturers and 7 students
Maria Regina: 2 primary school teachers
Ferdinand Buisson: 2 primary school teachers
Istituto Comprensivo: 2 primary school teachers
Platon: 3 primary school teachers
Idea Malta: 2 trainers
LABA: 2 trainers
Synkoino Coop: 2 trainers and 2 teachers
ValIda: 2 trainers
- Beneficiaries' Module: filmed by all partners under coaching and supervision of Idea Malta that takes care of production and post production of video content from WP3.
ValIda will carry out validation and quality management surveys upon delivery, testing and training activities.
Participants
Expected number and profile of participants.
All engagements indicated are minimum indicators per activity
7% contingency is being made for higher commitment being needed overall
A1 Desk Research
- CSI and UNIC 1 expert each drawing up parameters for research and then drawing up one document consolidating all findings.
- All partners except ValIda at least 1 educator/trainer/non-teaching staff working on feeding the desk research
- Valida 1 person involved in gathering data and starting Community of Learning within the partnership
A2 Design of Module
- CSI and UNIC at least 2 experts in pedagogy, gender equality and cultural diplomacy each designing training module
- LABA and Synkoino at least 1 expert each in cultural diplomacy in education
- All partners giving feedback or volunteering expertise should other be necessary and available
A3 Production of Module
- CSI and UNIC at least 2 experts each in preparing presentations and quizzes and delivery during recordings of lessons
- CSI and UNIC at least 1 technician putting lessons online
- LABA and Synkoino at least 1 expert each preparing presentations and quizzes and delivery during recordings of lessons
- Idea Malta at least 2 video recording and post production experts recording lessons during A4 and and video producing all lessons
A4 Two rounds of training
Participants in both rounds of training distributed equally into 18 per round
CSI: 2 lecturers and 7 students
UNIC: 2 lecturers and 7 students
Maria Regina: 2 primary school teachers
Ferdinand Buisson: 2 primary school teachers
Istituto Comprensivo: 2 primary school teachers
Platon: 3 primary school teachers
Idea Malta: 2 trainers
LABA: 2 trainers
Synkoino Coop: 2 trainers and 2 teachers
ValIda: 2 trainers
A5 Testing of Module
- 70 present and future educators finishing all training module online
- CSI and UNIC 1 support technician each
- ValIda 1 person maintaining Community of Learning/monitoring process
A6 Beneficiary Component
- CSI and UNIC 1 technician each putting content online as resource
