Wednesday 11th December 2013 The second meeting of our Comenius project took place in London. We met each other in the Netley Primary School in Camden. The principal Bavaani Nanthabalan and Head of Woodlands Gianna Golizza introduced the school and the Woodland Resource Base. Camden area is a culturally diverse area which gives a great opportunity to the school to teach co-operation skills. The tour in the Netley School classes guided by the pupils showed us the school culture in practice: every child is encouraged to be creative and curious. The children take responsibility for their own learning. The inspiring environment supports learning and all the products made by the pupils were on the walls. Occupational therapist Elaine O´Riordan told how the therapists work with children, school staff and class teachers. One part of their job is to organize staff training and workshops for parents. Later in the afternoon in discussions and working with buddies our Toolbox project became clearer. Thursday 12th December 2013 In the morning we visited Torriano Junior School. The school culture there was very similar with Netley: the atmosphere was very warm and inspiring. In the afternoon we arrived to secondary school Acland Burghley. They had a very interesting Individual Behavior Management System to help the children and young people with their behavior and emotions. That worked even in mainstream classes. In the end of the day we returned back to Woodlands, Netlays ASD Resource Base. Gianna, Sarah and Emma told about their work with children with ASD and co-operation with mainstream classes. Friday 13th December 2013 Liz Pellicano started our Friday started with interesting lecture about the ASD and related research in the UK. Active work done with the families was also told by Jane, Hannah and Christina. We found that especially interesting and valuable. Co-operation and guiding were very present in their work. In the afternoon we were again working in the buddy teams. Together with the UK team we have decided as follows: we start to write about participation and the UK team will complete, the UK team writes about learning environment and we complete that. Together we write about the curriculum, co-operation with families and technology. We, Raisa and Petri, were for the first time with this group. It was nice to see how easy it was to become a real member of this group. Marleen was a great organizer and she guided our work towards the goals of this project. She also cheered each of us as well as the buddy teams in our work. Gianna and her group had done such a good work with all the arrangements in London. Thank you for all your work. We had a very good meeting. Raisa and Petri |
AuthorInternational group of professionals in education Archives
January 2015
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