The project TERNO (Teachers Education for Roma New Opportunities in School) is a project co-financed by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission (Key Activity 1: Roma Multilateral Projects) which aims to set up and implement special support centres in order to support the Roma children that attend the last classes of the elementary school to complete primary education and pass on to the secondary education.

The general objective of the project is to prevent the early school leaving of the Roma children and support the Roma children to move from the elementary to the secondary education. The project aims to improve the participation/maintanance in school for children with low living standard by overpassing the lack of interest towards traditional learning methods. The specific objective with which the general objective will be achieved is through the training of the teachers (or teaching assistants) that are teaching Roma in order to support the Roma children to complete the elementary education.

The main result that the TERNO project has developed are Centres for the provision of supplementary education for Roma children that are completing the elementary education and are preparing to pass to the secondary education. The organization of these centres was based on a methodology which has included all the important elements in order to help teachers of Roma children to better support children that attend the last classes of the school to complete elementary education and pass to the secondary education.

The consortium of the project is multi-actor, it has a great experience in the field and it has complementary competencies. It is constituted from 6 partners from 5 countries (Greece, Spain, Italy, Hungary and Romania). In the project they participate, 3 Roma Associations, one NGO led by Roma, a Research Institute which is specialized in the education research for the Roma people and an organization specialized in the development of research methodologies and management of LLP projects.

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Creative teacher training for support of cultural and social inclusion of Roma children at school

Spurred by a Bulgarian organisation, the National Institute for Training and Career
Development in Education, this project aims to mobilise intercultural dialogue and
awareness to attract and motivate Roma children to embrace education, better
understand the benefits of learning, whilst teachers learn to perceive and develop
students’ personal potential and talents, through more pragmatic and personalised
approaches.

More generally, Creative Trainers also aims to improve teachers’ understanding of
issues specific to Roma children, both within and outside of the classroom, through
methods that improve their intercultural skills. In addition, teachers are trained to
improve their practical skills by engaging in an open and honest dialogue with Roma
children and their parents. Furthermore, teachers may thus become more proficient
in incorporating Roma culture into their lessons, for example through music, dance,
art and storytelling, as well as humanities subjects such as history and literature.

Coordinator: National Institute for Training and Career Development in Education, BG
General website: http://niod.bg/ | Project website: www.create2teach.eu
Tel.: +35 9899115593 | E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Contact person: Ms Reneta Palova

Site: http://create2teach.eu/en

Source: Roma and Education: Challenges and Opportunities in the European Union

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This project is co-funded by the European Commission. This publication reflects the views of the author only and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use of the information contained therein.

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