Heading for Inclusive School in Europe
The project team coordinated by Ana Guita Pinto will aim at promoting the educational success, improvement and optimization of pupils' abilities and skills in order to reduce possible inequalities.
Thus, we will propose:
This team will bring together teachers from different fields, especially those from foreign languages, a psychologist, teachers of Portuguese sign language, special education, visual arts, ICT and music.
They have training and experience in teaching students with learning disabilities and are used to energizing projects with these students.
Music professor Paulo Cunha plans to carry out inclusion-oriented activities through music, offering deaf students the opportunity to develop musical skills and proposes to present a "banda" made up of students who will present a show to the school community.
Visual arts and ICTs have a very important role as image is now essential especially for deaf students. On the other hand, many students with learning disabilities choose multimedia courses, which often increases the academic success of these students.
Professor Humberto Viegas, among others, belongs to the special education team and collaborates with other teachers carrying out specific programs according to the learning disabilities presented by the student.
Psychologist Aida Rita will support the team, with the support of the school and their families. This is a first step towards an inclusive school and society.
The team will work with the Omnes pro Uno association and coordinate the training workshop with the French team. The AEJD hosts the "Ria Formasa Center", whose main objective is to ensure constant teachers training. This organization provides training courses on inclusive school.
In the areas of the project, we will bring:
This association, made up of psychologists, sociologists and professors, is working in close relation with the Algarve schools from primary to secondary.
Within the framework of its general mission, the association:
- clinical and educational psychology,
- school and vocational guidance and neuropsychology, etc.
The work is developed by a multidisciplinary team
in a context linked to local social work centers, health centers, family health units, school groups and other institutions in the Community.
This team is made up of 5 university-level trainers. In this European project, OMNES PRO UNO will work in close collaboration as it already does with the AEJD and its training center "Ria Formosa" It will bring its skills in the field of training and research.
The association intends to intervene through information, training and awareness-raising in the field of education of pupils with specific needs for different types of intellectual, emotional, motor and sensory disabilities.
Indeed all these problems can affect learning requiring adjustments in the school curriculum to facilitate access to knowledge.
The training courses that Omnes Pro Uno intends to carry out will be particularly directed towards:
- Educators,
- Teachers and parents who work with pupils with special educational needs, based on a philosophy of "parent’s school"
