QualiFLY 2nd Project Meeting Malta, 1315 Feb 2006

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QualiFLY 2nd Project Meeting Malta, 13-15 Feb
2006
Contact Maren Elfert, UNESCO Institute for
Education, m.elfert_at_unesco.org
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1st Project MeetingIstanbul, Nov 05
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AÇEV (Mother Child Education Foundation)
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Presentations
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Staff meeting
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Tutors meeting
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Father Support Program
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Mother Child Education Program
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Mother Child Education Program
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Preschool Parent-child Education Program
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Preschool Parent-child Education Program
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Preschool Parent-child Education Program
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Istanbul, Nov 05
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Feedback sheets

• Extremely positive assessment of meeting
• Study visits unique opportunity
• Be more focused in the discussions

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Feedback sheets

• Interest in
• More country experiences and study visits
• More concrete ideas for practical work
• More group work

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Feedback sheets

• Interest in
• How to find sponsors and participants
• Face-to-face work, home-visits
• The migrant as a parent, not only as a working
  individual

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Tutors meeting

• Proportion of migrants in each country
• Minorities
• Practices

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Tutors questionnaires

• Challenges
• To motivate parents
• To see progress/to prove that the
• programme works
• To understand different cultures
• and backgrounds
• To increase funding

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Tutors questionnaires

• What abilities do tutors need?
• Social skills, communication skills,
  psychological skills
  
• Knowledge of the culture (be a cultural
  mediator)
  
• Knowledge of adult education
• Knowledge of formal and non-formal education
  systems

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Tutors questionnaires

• In which areas do they wish more training?
• Work with migrants
• Managerial and administrative skills

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Tutors questionnaires

• How can the literacy skills of parents be
  developed?
  
• develop a programme that meets their personal
  history
  
• make the learning fun
• raise self-esteem of parents

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Tutors questionnaires

• Good ideas
• To recruit participants, let other parents who
  have already took part talk about the project
  
• Empower parents to own their programme
• Find out how parents already support their
  children and strengthen that support.

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Definition

• Common work definition
• Family literacy is an approach to learning
• that focuses on intergenerational
• interactions within the family and
• community which promote the
• development of literacy and related life
• skills.

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Questionnaire
Context of the country Aim of the project/concept
of family literacy Target population/cultural a
nd social context and languages Programme design,
content and progression routes
Teacher training Teacher background/qualification
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Questionnaire
Focus (children, young people, adults) Curricul
um Methodological approach Monitoring and evalu
ation How is the project financed? Partnerships
Best practice example
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QuestionnaireContext of the country
Bulgaria 60 of the Roma at risk, 25 totally
illiterate Germany 4,000.000 functional illiter
ates
7,400.000 migrants (Turkish)
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QuestionnaireContext of the country
Ireland IALS study 25 of the population at the
lowest level Italy 12 functional illiterates 2
,000.000 migrants
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QuestionnaireContext of the country
Malta 11 of population over 11 illiterate
High percentage of early school leavers not in
further education Turkey no standardized ECE sys
tem 12 illiteracy rate
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QuestionnaireContext of the country - Resume
All countries High illiteracy rates Germany, It
aly High proportion of migrants Bulgaria Mino
rity

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QuestionnaireConcept and aim of project
Bulgaria Increase level of literacy and vocation
al qualifications Germany Prevent future drop-
outs by promoting childrens literacy skills
Support parents to assist children
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QuestionnaireConcept and aim of project
Ireland Promote development of literacy and nume
racy skills Assist parents in their role as prima
ry educators Involve in lifelong learning Italy

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QuestionnaireConcept and aim of project
Malta Cycle of Literacy model Basic Skills fo
r parents and children Stepping stone for parent/
adult empowerment (Bridge to empowerment)
Enhance school community development and parental
empowerment
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QuestionnaireConcept and aim of project
Turkey MOCEP Empower mothers to support their c
hildren PCPEP Ensure educational support through
strengthening school-family collaboration
Prepare children for primary school
FSP Empower fathers in their parenting roles.
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QuestionnaireConcept and aim of project-resume
All Support parents to assist children Irelan
d/Malta
Focus on adults (lifelong learning)
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QuestionnaireTarget population
Bulgaria Adult Roma Germany 5-6-year-old child
ren and their parents (mostly migrants)
Ireland Adult learners Italy formerly individu
al working migrants, now migrants family
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QuestionnaireTarget population
Malta Early primary (1-3) children and parents
(Hilti) Turkey MOCEP Mothers of 6-year-old chil
dren PCPEP 6-year-old children, their teachers
and parents. FSP Fathers with 2-10-year-old chil
dren.
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QuestionnaireProgramme design
Bulgaria Literacy and vocational qualifications
project in Sofia, June Dec 2005.
Partnership among Ministry, local authorities and
NGOs. 3 modules literacy, voc. qualifications, e
mployment
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QuestionnaireProgramme design
Germany Pilot project in 7 schools and 2 kinderg
artens in Hamburg Flexible time frame Three pill
ars 1. parents in the classroom 2. Activities
with parents 3. joint parent children
activities
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QuestionnaireProgramme design
Ireland Family literacy courses of 8 to 10 weeks
in duration, held in schools or community based
centres. The programmes start with the needs and
interests of the individuals.
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QuestionnaireProgramme design
Malta Klabb Hilti After school, hosted in prim.
schools, 1,45 h. twice a week
8-12 families per programme Provision in 38 schoo
ls NWAR Hilti-in-Sports Evening and weekend pro
grammes
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QuestionnaireProgramme design
Turkey MOCEP 25-week program with 20-25 mothe
rs once a week in adult educ.
Centres. Group meetings mother support progra
m (1,5 h) reproductive health
(0,5 h) cognitive training (1 h)
Home Mother implements worksheets
(0,5 h daily) 4-5 home visits by
facilitator
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QuestionnaireProgramme design
Turkey PCPEP 28-week-program Child training C
lassroom worksheets and home worksheets (20. min
. daily) Parent support monthly 2-hour-parent-
support meetings Worksheets with child at home (3
0 min. daily)
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QuestionnaireProgramme design
Turkey FSP 13-week-program. Group meetings wit
h 15
fathers
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QuestionnaireProgramme design - Resume
Partnerships From very flexible time frame (Germa
ny) to very school-like and structured
programmes

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QuestionnaireTeacher training
Bulgaria Teachers selected by Regional Inspect
orate of Education, Sofia. Teachers received shor
t-term training on adult education by the IIZ/DV
V.
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QuestionnaireTeacher training
Germany Teachers are primary school teachers w
ith a qualification for language
development (no experience with adult
education) Training is provided through a month
ly seminar where input is given and experience
s shared
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QuestionnaireTeacher training
Ireland Qualified adult literacy tutors having
completed an initial tutor training
programme Certificate and degree courses for adu
lt literacy tutors
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QuestionnaireTeacher training
Italy Graduate in psychology, pedagogy or simi
lar intercultural qualifications
Experience with working with migrants
Knowledge of the (legal) situation of
Migrants Malta Initial and ongoing tutor trainin
g In-built element of teacher studies Strong inv
olvement and training of parent leaders
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QuestionnaireTeacher training
Turkey MOCEP Teachers are either staff of adu
lt education centres or social workers
and psychologists. They receive 1 month
training PCPEP Teachers are graduates of child
development of voc. schools or preschool teachers
(9 days training). FSP Teachers are primary teac
hers or guidance counselors (10 days training).

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QuestionnaireTeacher training - resume
Qualification From primary school
teachers to adult education specialists
Training Initial training, ongoing training
Intercultural qualifications, experience
with migrants
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QuestionnaireFocus of project
Bulgaria Unemployed and (functionally)
illiterate adults (Roma population)
Germany In principle, children and
parents. Focus is more on children as
programme does not enhance literacy
skills of parents Ireland Adult learners
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QuestionnaireFocus of project
Italy Adult migrants. Malta Children and parent
s, focus on parents Turkey MOCEP Children and
mothers. PCPEP children, parents, teachers. FSP
children and fathers.
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QuestionnaireCurriculum
Bulgaria Curriculum provided by Reg.
Inspect. of Education. Didac- tical materials sel
ected by IIZ/DVV. Germany Flexible curriculum de
veloped together with teachers. Ireland Curric
ulum developed in consultation with learners.

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QuestionnaireCurriculum
Turkey MOCEP Curriculum consists of 25 group di
scussion topics and 25 worksheets.
PCPEP Curriculum consists of 8 group
discussion topics, 25 home worksheets
and 28 class worksheets FSP Curriculum consis
ts of 13 discussion topics.
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QuestionnaireCurriculum - resume
Curriculum developed together with learners/te
achers (Germany/Ireland) Structured and prescri
ptive curriculum
(Turkey)
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QuestionnaireMethodological approach
Bulgaria Individual approach Germany Process-or
iented, low-scale, action- and individual-orient
ed Ireland Learner- and best practice- oriented
Turkey Ecological approach mediated learning

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QuestionnaireMonitoring/Evaluation
Germany internal and external
evaluation using both quantitative and
qualitative instruments Ireland Courses are eva
luated on a qualitative basis group discussions
, individual evaluation sheets and brainstormi
ng sessions Malta Teachers survey, parental fee
dback
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QuestionnaireMonitoring/Evaluation
Turkey Projects are visited by ACEV
specialists MOCEP Observations and scales, in
terviews with mothers PCPEP Tests with children,
interviews with teachers, observations. FSP O
bservations, quantitative evaluation by attitude
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QuestionnaireHow is project financed
Bulgaria Ministry of Labour and Social
Policy Germany Federal Ministry for Education
and Research and Federal States
Staff costs UIE/LI Ireland Dept. of Education a
nd Science, also European Social Fund and Irish
Development Plan
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QuestionnaireHow is project financed
Italy Catalogo, Comune di Roma
Malta Ministry of Education?, ESF-funded
projects Turkey Cooperation ACEV-Ministry of N
ational Education (ACEV provides
teacher training MONE provides training
materials and pays salaries of teachers)
ALL public funds!?
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QuestionnairePartnerships
Bulgaria Sofia Municipality, Regional
Educational Dept., Regional Labour Dept.
IIZ/DVV Regional Inspectorate of
Education Foundation Ethnocult. Dial.
Germany UIE-LI-schools (project
management) Ministry of Education, City
of Hamburg, Univ. of Hamburg (funding)
foundation and private company (add. courses)
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QuestionnairePartnerships
Ireland Local Vocational Education
Committees (tuition) NALA (training of
tutors) Waterford Institute of
Technology (training) schools (venues,
recruitment of parents) Turkey ACEV-MONE
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QuestionnaireBest practice
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QuestionnaireBest practice
Germany Parents writing family stories
Germany Learning with different letter
stations Ireland Cooperation of all relevant
partners in the planning and implementation o
f programmes Awards ceremony presenting certifica
tes
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QuestionnaireBest practice
Turkey Teacher training Long duration Detaile
d and structured training materials Intensive p
rogram implementation Observation and feedback
Ongoing process and product evaluation
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QualiFLY 2nd Project Meeting Malta, 13-15 Feb
2006
Contact Maren Elfert, UNESCO Institute for
Education, m.elfert_at_unesco.org