Inclusive education and special needs, the Italian experience of overcoming students’ segregation (Bologna)
This course allows participants to get to know and analyse the Italian model, discussing strategies, working methods and approaches to fight the segregation of students with special needs and to include them in mainstream education.
Description
- Course category: Inclusion and Diversity
- Locations: Bologna, Palermo
- Target Audience: teachers, trainers, educational counsellors, career counsellors, school psychologists, headmasters, school management and administrative staff
- Preregistration: Online in the course webpage
- Related courses: Preventing conflicts and tackling Early School Leaving, Diversity in the classroom: teaching tolerance and overcoming prejudices, Intercultural Learning and Cultural Diversity in education
- Full Course Catalogue
This training course is aimed at getting to know strategies, methodologies and tools to include all students in education and at learning how inclusive education in Italy works and how overcoming segregation of students with special needs is indeed possible.The general aim of this course is to foster excellence and inclusion in education by providing teachers, headmasters, education staff and policy makers with knowledge and inspiration to make inclusive education a reality in their school. More...
Learning objectives
- Get to know the key principles, benefits and values of inclusive education;
- Learn about the Italian inclusive education model of overcoming segregation and including students with special needs in mainstream education;
- Get acquainted with ICT tools and platforms that support and ease the learning process of students with special needs;
- Get to know and discuss teaching strategies and practical activities to foster participation and enhance the learning of special needs students;
- Discover the power of peer-involvement and peer-education;
- Visit Italian schools and institutions active in the field of inclusive education and students with special needs;
- Exchange good practices and discuss challenges with Italian teachers as well as education staff from other EU countries participating in the training course.
Standard Daily Programme
Sunday- Participants arrival
- Networking activities
- Cultural activities in the city
- Inclusive Education in Europe
- From integration to inclusion
- Sharing experiences in working with special needs learners
- The Italian inclusive education model
- The personalized didactic plan and the inclusive annual plan
- Visit to a local school and discussion with local teachers
- Create an inclusive classroom
- The role of empathy in working with learners with special needs
- Practical activities: in the shoes of our learners
- Inclusive teaching methods: making learning resources moreaccessible
- Practical case study: co-teaching and station rotation teaching
- ICT tools to support learners with special needs: practical work
- Working with parents: challenges, benefits and best practices
- Practical activity: what can I improve in my school?
- Course wrap-up and final evaluation
- Validation of learning outcomes and certification ceremony
- Participants departure
Methodology & assessment
The standard methodology is highly practical and participative with hands-on approach that comprises real-job examples, case studies examination and simulations. We embrace collaborative working methods that foster mutual learning and cooperation among participants. Our focus is on transferring knowledge and skills which are applicable to real contexts and/or in the classroom. The pedagogical methods that we use are based upon experiential learning, group and peer activities, learning-by-doing and best practices’ exchange.
We support our partners in every step of the course: from application, to preparation, to monitoring and evaluation and collection of all final documentation. Morning wrap-up and brief daily evaluations are foreseen to ensure the learning programme is finely tailored to participants' needs. At the end of each course, we provide participants with supporting material and multiple dissemination evidence.
We commit to make participants feel at home during our courses, catering for their personal, practical and educational needs. Indeed, in addition to delivering the training, we provide board and lodging in the same hotel where the course takes place, thus ensuring the best comfort and coziness as well as effective time management.
We organize optional social, networking and cultural activities in order to give participants the opportunity to know the venue’s culture as well as to exchange best-practice and establish professional links. The training and staff team is multinational thus giving a full European dimension to the course.
Certification details
Pricing, packages and other information
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Package contents:AccommodationCourseMealsTransport
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Additional information:
Teachers, trainers, headmasters and any other staff of education organizations are eligible to receive an Erasmus+ grant covering all the costs to attend our training courses including travel, board and lodging, cultural activities and all fees. Our training courses are tailored to be fully funded by Erasmus+ and we offer different options to ensure the best comfort and quality at a price that is within the Erasmus+ grant.
We are proud to tailor our training courses to both participants' learning and practical needs and to ease your participation at our training courses, we will gladly take care of all the practical arrangements. If you prefer, you can take care of some of the practical arrangements by yourself (e.g. meals, local transport...), though we will manage the organization of your accommodation in order to ensure optimal logistic organization, safety and time-efficiency. We always provide board and lodging in the same hotel in which we organize the course thus ensuring optimal comfort and potential of networking with the fellow participants. Read more about how we take care of your subsistence and practical arrangements.
The most common option that we offer to schools and organisations costs EUR 1280 and includes course fee, certification and support fee, accommodation in single room, 2 coffee breaks per day, 3 meals per day, walking tour in the venue’s city, a sum-up dissemination video and local transport during the course. For schools sending 2 or more participants we can offer accommodation in double rooms and we can provide as well accommodation for people or relatives accompanying the participants.
When attending our courses, we recommend you to request 9 days of individual support for your subsistence costs, 7 days for the course plus 2 additional days for the travel. You can read here more about the Erasmus+ funding.
Additional information
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Language:English
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Target audience ISCED:Primary education (ISCED 1)Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)
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Target audience type:TeacherHead Teacher / PrincipalHigher education institution staff
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Learning time:25 hours or more