PROGRESS REPORT SEIN - SEGESCHOOL INSPECTORATE IASI

SEIN SEGE PROJECT GRU- 09 -P-LP-29-IS-TR

SPAIN 5-9 MARCH 2011LAS PALMAS

Activities done betwen July 2010 – February 2011

A. The choice of the team (learners) to take part in the project meeting in Greece (18-22.09.2010 and in Spain )

B. Planning the activities for the second year of the project

C. Dissemination of the knowledge acquired in the last meetings to the local community

1. Training courses for parents, through T.T.C. Iasi, member of the SEIN –SEGE partnership

The following arguments underlie the training course necessity:• During the latest years the dependency of computer seems to be

growing under its different forms. The social context cannot be isolated from the family and school environment where the child develops.

• In order to be able to intervene for the prevention and limitation of these phenomena, it is necessary to explain the causes, conditions and sources which determine the addiction to computer, as well as the positive effects of using it.

-,,SECURE INTERNET & SECURE GENERATIONS– tips for parents’’- ,,DESIGN OF THE SCHOOL – FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ‘’- ,,AXIOMS OF PARENTS’ COUNSELLING’’Number of participants: 83 parents

A new selection of the schools where the questionnaires will be applied to parents, an counselling sessions will be organized for parents (from both rural and urban communities) took place – a number of 43 parents from high schools “V.Alecsandri” and “Garabet Ibraileanu”, and 50 parents from Colegiul National Iasi Iasi, took part in counselling sessions.

2.Counselling sessions for parents were organized at “V.Alecsandri” and “Garabet Ibraileanu”, Iasi, high schools.

Number of parents: 43

The following counselling activities were organized:ACTIVITY 1 “Parents come back to school’’ ACTIVITY 2 “Parents and children between parallel

mirrors’’ACTIVITY 3 “Good parents – happy children”, “To be a

parent is easy, but not simple’’ACTIVITY 4 “How to avoid our children’s addiction to

computers?’’ACTIVITY 5 “Living together – Tolerance begins in the

family’’ACTIVITY 6 “Children live the way they learn”!

3. Questionnaires have been applied to a number of 93 parents from rural and urban schools

4.The platform has been achieved (a discussion group withparents,http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sein_sege_parents/messages) done by Stelian Hadimbu

5. The project blog was posted on the web page of ISJ Iasi: http://seinsege.wordpress.com/ done by Gabriela Conea

6. Making a short research and studies on a possible Internet Safety curriculum.

7. Establishing the project team (learners) and the responsibilities for each member of the team for the Spain Meeting.

8. Preparing the materials for the fourth project meeting in Spain (5- 9 March 2011)

9.Selecting the target group by applying questionnaires (November-December 2010)

Creating the working group to achieve the curriculum for parents, curriculum developed by ISJ Iasi and used by all partners in the project (December 2010- January 2011). The curriculum is designed to develop communication skills for parents to promote a nonviolent education of children, to develop their harmonious personality, to provide their integration into family life, local community and society. The participation of the children in their education, in partnership with the parents. The prevention against the disharmonies inside the personalities of children due to excessive computer use. The address of the yahoo group is: sein_sege_parents@yahoogroups.com

10.Creating a project link on the ISJ Iasi webpage: http://seinsege.wordpress.com/

11.Applying questionnaires to parents of selected schools (10 schools) (December 2010)

12.Achieving counselling courses for parents (November 2010 -January-2011) within “Casa Corpului Didactic” Iasi, local partner in the SEIN-SEGE project, in the following schools: “Garabet Ibraileanu’’ College Iasi and “Vasile Alecsandri’’ College Iasi. A number of 43 parents received counselling.

C. Dissemination of the knowledge acquired in the last meetings to the local community

Participating in Timisoara at the Adult Education National Conference, with the theme 10 Years of European Development in Adult Education. Achievements and challenges in reaching the Lisbon objectives''2010'', 19th to 21st of March 2010, with the participation of ISJ Iasi (General School Inspector, Prof. Liliana Romaniuc and Liliana Rujanu - Methodist Professor within ISJ Iasi) in discussions of: "Achievement of professional status by the staff involved in adult education'' Workshop. At the conference the project SEIN – SEGE was presented within the informal GRUNDTVIG sessions.

• The dissemination of information on the project meeting with the national agency ANPCDEF was achieved (11th May and 15th of October 2010) .( de pus imaginile pe slide-uri)

• Info bulletins were posted on the discussion list of the programmes: Grundtvig Partnerships for learning: grundtvigers@yahoogroups.com and on the web portal http://www.edumanager.ro/

• A roundtable debate was organized on the 9th of December 2010: ADULT EDUCATION – EXAMPLES OF GOOD PRACTICE IN GRUNDTVIG PROJECTS. The meeting was organized within the Adult Education Week in partnership with ISJ, Iasi, CCD Iasi and ”Formare Studia” Association. Teachers NOG representatives, psycho-pedagogues and parents were present. The book “FAMILY AND SCHOOL - A PARTNERSHIP TOWARDS QUALITY AND EDUCATION” was launched as well. (de pus imaginile pe slide-uri)

• The documents presented at all the project’s meeting were posted on the project’s webpage: http://sein-sege-akate.iab-center.de/

• The 4th Newsletter of the project has been posted on the webpage of ISJ Iasi. • The testing and the impact of the project’s curriculum on the parents was

achieved: ,,SECURE INTERNET & SECURE GENERATIONS– tips for parents’’ ,,DESIGN OF THE SCHOOL – FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ‘’ ,,AXIOMS OF PARENTS’ COUNSELLING’’

Impact and Parents’ opinion on the training/counselling courses they attended

1. Grade the activity:• Interesting / interactive, very useful, pleasant, relaxing;• Contributed to the development of one’s personality.2. What have you found out about yourself?• I am a normal, outgoing, friendly parent;• A small success of my child has a good effect in me, while a failure must

not deter me;• It is difficult to change and it takes a lot of will on my part and the

others’ support;• I enjoy listening to others;• I had drawbacks in the relationship with my parents, which I want to

avoid as a parent.

3. What have you learned about the others?• The others’ children also have successes and failures, greater or smaller;• People are not the same but the situations can be similar;• Each person has a solution of their own in dealing with children’s problems;• Success and failure can influence a child’s self-esteem4. What did you like about the meetings organized at the counselling?• The relaxed manner in which the problems were tackled;• The confident atmosphere;• The new information about internet security;• The useful information;• The interactive style;• The beneficial effect on myself;• The discussion group.

School Inspectorate Iasi has finished the folowing documents:

• GUIDELINES TO PARENT COUNSELING • STUDY ABOUT INTERNET SAFETY&PARENTS

IN ROMANIA AND IN IASI