Modern strategies and methods successfully used in remedial education activities

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Modern strategies and methods successfully used
in remedial education activities
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• Education is, in any society, the vector of
  sustainable development.
• Developing human capital and increasing the
  competitiveness through initial and continuing
  training, for a flexible and globalized labor
  market, are the major objectives of the
  Government program.

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• In order for the school to assume an active role
  in the prevention and control of violence, the
  first investment must be made in teacher
  training.
• Organizing training courses for teachers to cope
  with working with difficult classes or students
  must start with the following objectives

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• Closer observation of the student behavior for a
  better understanding of the causes of violence
• Improving communication with students who exhibit
  violent behavior and establishing relationships
  of trust
• Easing conflicts with the opinion makers
• Development of the school family partnership
• Collaboration with specialists during network
  working

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Conflict metaphors

• The conflict is a struggle, the conflict is an
  onion, the conflict is a plane out of control -
  discuss ways of conflict management.
• Ex for the conflict as a war metaphor, waving a
  white flag or setting a truce could be a step
  towards management of this conflict.
• Transform these metaphorical solutions into
  practical solutions. (For example, if the
  conflict is like a battle, the flag could mean a
  message to the opponent indicating the openness
  to discussion)
• "What feelings do you associated with conflict?
  What words mean conflict? "

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• Different people adopt different strategies for
  resolving conflicts.
• These strategies are learned in childhood and
  they usually seem to work. At a "preconscious
  level all seems natural in such situations, but
  in fact we apply a learned personal strategy and
  since it was learned, we can always change it by
  learning new and more effective methods of
  resolving conflicts.
• How we act in a conflict is affected by our
  personal goals and of how importance is the
  respective relationship.
• Depending mainly by these two factors we can
  identify several strategies for how we can act in
  case of conflicts.

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• To cope with conflict situations, the teacher
  develops one of the following strategies
• 1) evasive strategies - he currently ignores
  the crisis created and continues
• 2) Diminishing strategies (moderation) - he
  minimizes the disagreement with the students.
• 3) Power strategies he calls on his power and
  on different constraining methods
• 4) Compromising strategies he resorts to
  promises
• 5)Negotiated problem solving strategies -
  through discussion between opposing parties

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• Methods for improving teacher effectiveness in
  the management of disruptive behaviors of
  students
• 1. The teacher can use body language to stop
  the undesirable behavior
• 2. Using the system of incentives
• 3. Positive instructional support
• 4. Developing a plan for discipline in the
  classroom, the system of rules and incentives

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School Conflict Mediation

• For a constructive conflict resolution, the
  opponents have to follow certain rules
• Remain calm and control their anger, frustration
  or other strong emotions
• Focus on the problem at hand and not on blaming
  the other
• Express their feelings and wishes
• Respect the other points of view and to try to
  understand them
• Cooperate for finding the solutions that would
  please everyone involved.

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• Alternative conflict resolution refers to a
  certain order in managing a conflict
• - negociation
• mediation
• reconciliation
• discovery of facts
• arbitration.

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• Negotiation. Problem solved voluntarily or
  established understanding directly between those
  involved in order to achieve common interests
• Reconciliation. Voluntary negotiations with a
  third party, which is usefull for getting the
  parties to open a dialog or it mediates
  information
• Mediation. Voluntary participation in formal
  processes, in which a third party helps those in
  conflict to identify problems and to satisfy the
  major interests
• The discovery of facts. Investigation conducted
  by a third party, resulting in a recommended
  deal.
• Arbitration. Voluntary or required participation
  in a process of explanation, presentation and
  clarification of needs, interests and positions,
  which leads to the CONSTRUCTION of a deal with
  the help of a neutral party.

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• The students in our school need a remedial
  education because
• low socio-economic level
• low access to information sources
• lack of education of the parents who are unable
  to help the students and show low expectations
  regarding the success od their children
• lack of parental presence (the parents are away
  in other countries), the children are left in the
  care of grandparents, aunts or others
• relatives which show low interest for the
  childrens school performance
• high risk of school failure

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• The purpose of organizing remedial activities is
  to stimulate the completion of compulsory
  schooling (school dropout prevention) and to
  improve school success rate for children from
  disadvantaged groups.
• Organizing a remedial program has a significant
  impact on school life, aiming at changing
  attitudes towards the students which may have at
  a certain time difficulties in learning.
• During these classes, the students are supported
  in making their homeworks, in school recovery and
  improving learning difficulties activities, and
  in arts education activities or fun games with an
  indirect educational purpose.

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• Youth involvement in violent episodes is a
  widespread problem in every school and its
  neighbourhood, being influenced by race, religion
  and gender.
• The feelings of frustration and despair have
  become an issue among the educators and other
  adults directly involved with young people.
• These actors are often overwhelmed by hostile,
  aggressive and violent students. One in five
  teachers can cite incidents when he received
  verbal or physical threats from students.
• Physical aggression and intimidation are often
  the first reactions of the young man when he has
  problems or disagreements.

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• To obtain the best results we need teachers to
  diversify teaching strategies based on student's
  individual learning style and use appropriate
  teaching materials
• a) Picture Boards to develop the language
  skills. Images should be a starting point for
  discussions, which should develop awareness and
  creativity.
• b) Distribution materials. Students can compose
  small texts, oral or written. The material can
  also be used also in team work, small groups that
  promote student interaction with its peers.

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• c)   The computer helps students to see what what
  they can not see in their everyday life (Power
  Point presentations), games can be used in any
  sequence of the lesson to secure and update
  knowledge, for teaching.
• d)  Using games during learning situations, role
  play, drama, stories using the names of the class
  students or which present situations that
  students have gone through. The game stimulates
  the intellectual functions, shapes affective and
  motivational processes.  
• Through games the student feels responsible
  for solving the given problem. The student
  assumes roles taken either in daily life or from
  stories. Role plays are various and they
  facilitate the learning of concepts .

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• e) Interdisciplinarity the discovery of
  original ways to approach a common topic to
  create possible and necessary connections to
  achieve the purpose combining the methods used
  in other subjects.
• f) Working in groups provides a wide range of
  interrelationships that support learning and
  highlights its social role.
• g) The use of interactive methods
  brainstorming, double journal entry, clusters,
  cube, five-minute essay (students may be asked to
  compile a text of 4-5 sentences that would
  convince a friend to read the text.)

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• h)  Creative resolution of class conflicts
• i)  Collaboration with the family - we mentioned
  above that the mother supports intervention.
  Strategies for raising self esteem and confidence
  in ones own efficiency are the teacher provides
  positive feedback to students on their
  achievements and tries to getting them used to
  give credit to their personal capacity for their
  success  

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• Regarding the strategies for building a close
  teacher - student relationship, and at the same
  time an efficient one, we must consider the
  following parameters
• Give priority to increase the socialization
  skills
• 2. Creating and maintaining motivation through
  adapted teaching requirements with immediate and
  objective assessments and self-assessments
• 3. Personalized message and empathic behavior for
  a real communication
• 4. Flexibility in the design of the learning
  activities
• 5. Teaching focused on the student (accepting
  certain wishes and suggestions encouraging
  personal initiative, discovering and developing
  of skills)

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• To develop learning motivation and to avoid
  fatigue and routine, activities were designed to
  be folded on the predominant types of
  intelligence (STEP BY STEP interest centers)
• During each activity the focus was on promoting
  continuous progress, providing symbolic rewards,
  empowerment of all students.

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• How do you increase the effectiveness of
  remedial activities?
• 1. Diversity, accessibility and the esthetic of
  the presented teaching material
• 2. Custom environment with the students essays
  or changing the work location
• 3. Applying cooperative learning strategies as
  ways to promote social harmony
• 4. Perception and feedback from the parents
  during the remedial activities
• 5. Involvement of the mediator in the smooth
  running of the remedial education activities

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• Through the remedial education activities the
  thinking and perception of the teachers which
  were involved in the program, related to the
  educational act within and outside the school,
  changes. Other teachers outside the ones directly
  involved in this programme participated, thus
  leading to the change of mentality.
• The human resources that we should support are
  students, their colleagues, school mediator and
  family, in the happy cases where the family is
  next to the child.       
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• After repeated meetings with the parents involved
  in remedial activities, they understood that
  their role is that of educators of their
  children they have learned where and when their
  role of educator ends they got to know that
  sometimes they learn from their child and that
  the school is close to them and supports them in
  training and educating their child.

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What has been accomplished through the remedial
activities?

• The student has become from the object of
  teaching, the subject of teaching
• The student is co-participant in its training
• Students are more self-confident
• Solid foundation in education and personality
  formation
• The beginning in mentality changing or a mindset
  that is formed from the start on solid, healthy
  coordinates

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Bibliography

• 1. Salavastru, Dorina Education
  psychology, Editura Polirom, Ia?i, 2004
• 2. Verdier, Pierre New guide to the
  childs wellfare ,Le Centurion, Paris, 2000