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.

Tab 1 The Project

Tab 2 General Objectives and Activities

Tab 3 Main Results

Tab 4 Partners

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WP2: Initial Research and Methodology

WP Coordinator: MTA
Start Date: 01/11/2012
End Date: 30/6/2013

Aims:

- to develop a methodology for the training of the teachers in order to provide supplementary supportive education to Roma children that go to the last classes of the elementary school in order to help them move onto secondary education.

- This methodology will focus on the way that teachers could take into consideration elements of the Roma culture and use them in order to increase the academic performance of the Roma elementary school teachers.

- This includes the provision of support and information to the parents of these children in a way that takes into account their cultural background.

- Methodology not theoretical but practice- oriented.

- relevant methods that could be used by the school teachers in order to support the Roma children to complete the elementary education and pass on the secondary education.

- Identification of the training needs of the Roma children (factors that enhance the early school leaving).

- Identification of the training needs of the teachers (what they need in order to support the Roma children to complete the elementary school).

- Identification of the training needs of the parents of these children (how they could be helped in order to improve the situation of these children).

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