Training teachers and instructors to teach in

prison/detention centres

may 2010malta

DAIANA DAIANA CĂLINCĂLIN

ROMANIA-my country

CRAIOVA

ROMANIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM Basic principles

• Education is a national priority • Education is based on

democratic values • Romania endorse the principle

of equal chances in education regardless of gender, individual characteristics – physical or mental impairments, cultural or socio-economic background, mother tongue, ethnic origin, religion etc.

• Minorities have the right of education in their own language

• Public education is tax free

Romanian Education System - Description

The Romanian educational structure consists on a vertical system of schooling. Five main components represent the fundamental pillars of this system:

1. Pre-school education,2. Compulsory education,3. Upper secondary education,4. Vocational education and training, 5. Tertiary education.

A synthetic table of Romanian education system:

44Post high schoolPost high school

Tertiary Tertiary education-education-

non universitynon university33

Non Non compulsorycompulsory1818 XIIIXIII

33

High schoolHigh school- upper cycle -- upper cycle -

Upper Upper secondarysecondary

33

1717 XIIXII

High schoolHigh school-upper cycle--upper cycle- 22

1616 XIXICompletion yearCompletion year

1515 XX

22

High schoolHigh school-lower cycle--lower cycle- Arts and trades schoolArts and trades school

Lower Lower secondarysecondary

11

Compulsory Compulsory

1414 IXIX

1313 VIIIVIII

General schoolGeneral school

--

1212 VIIVII

1111 VIVI

11

1010 VV

99 IVIV

Primary schoolPrimary school Primary Primary educationeducation

88 IIIIII

77 IIII

66 II

55 Preparatory Preparatory group for group for

schoolschool00 Kindergarten Kindergarten Pre school Pre school

educationeducationNon Non

compulsorycompulsory44 Middle groupMiddle group

33 Beginners Beginners

AgeAge Grade Grade ISCEDISCED Education levelsEducation levels Qual.Qual. TypeType

>19>19 6655

University - masterUniversity - master Tertiary Tertiary education - education - universityuniversity

5544

NonNoncompulsorycompulsoryUniversity - bachelorUniversity - bachelor

Curriculum The curricular framework includes:• The core curriculum (common core and

differentiated curriculum), containing the compulsory subjects and the number of allocated hours, designed and approved at national level

The syllabus• for the core curriculum subjects, the syllabus is

elaborated by commissions of specialists and approved by the minister of education

Text books • The ministry approves the textbooks which can

be used in schools• The teachers have the right to choose the

appropriate textbook, from the approved list

MY SCHOOL – SCOALA DE ARTE SI MESERII CRAIOVA

• My school is a vocational and technical school for pupils with special needs.

• Its location is inside of a Juvenile and Youth Penitentiary in Craiova.

• Special education system aims to educate,

recover, integrate social and professional the pupils with special educational needs.

• Special education is a subsystem of the Romanian education system. It is a viable, open, flexible, efficient and, also, an able system to adapt to the demands of the contemporary society, regarding any period of the pupils development.

• Special education is part of public education. It brigs two different things: another kind of student and another way of management learning, of rehabilitation, compensation, integration, socialization and recovery.

• In order to achieve the goals for special education in our country, there is a collaboration between institutions, stat or nongovernmental organizations, agencies or associations that deal with children in needs.

THE SPECIAL EDUCATION PRINCIPLES

• Equal rights • Equalization of opportunities• Access to any form of education• Early intervention • Cooperation and partnership • Ensuring community support services

• On the other hand, Penitentiary is material and socio-cultural context where a person serve a punishment deprivation of liberty. There are provided conditions to form a correct attitude towards work, the legal order and rules of social life.

• Penitentiary institution has two basic functions: safe supervision of persons who must carry a sentence of deprivation of liberty and stimulating the prisoners to participate in programs that enable social reintegration and rehabilitation as citizens who respect the laws of the country they live in.

• Many of those incarcerated have big educational deficiencies, both school and moral, civic education. Many deprived of liberty persons in our country don’t know how to read and write, they don’t know the basic concepts on civilized behavior in society and not aware of obligations and rights of citizens.

• Formal and non-formal education in prisons try to fill knowledge gaps left by individual family situation, or belonging to a disadvantaged group, gaps left by the indifference of some teachers or lack of educational alternatives for those who left school at one time and want to resume school, but they don’t know how and were.

• Education is the most important mean to limit negative consequences and the isolation from comunity of juvenile and youth persons. We can encourage those who wish to change their behavior by conferring utility for the time spent in detention, identifying and stimulating positiv potential and helping them to realize new possibilities that they can benefit.

1. School activity• Our school is integrated into the national education

system so the pupiles can continue their studies without difficulties after liberation.

• It is considered special school because of the specific activities performed with students.

• This year the school has about 200 (two hundred) students, juvenile and young, aged between 15 (fifteen) and 23 (twenty-three) years old. They are of different ethnic groups (Romanian, Gipsy, Hungarians)

• School classes are held on the following levels of education:– primary education (I-IV)– secondary education (V-VIII)– vocationary level (IX-XII)

• School building is located inside the prison. Courses are held in two shifts, morning and afternoon. Students have access to classrooms, computer lab, physics laboratory, sport and gym, library, workshops, festivities hall and a room for occupational therapy.

2. Training courses for IX-XII classes

Wood workerMechanical

Electromechanical

3. Optional courses

• Skills for everyday life and society (wearing and maintaining clothes, good fit and politeness, entrepreneurship education, conflict management), general culture (physics, Romanian language)

Literary shop and drawing studio

• Teachers on our school develops personalized intervention programs (PIP) and curriculum adaptation for students with learning difficulties.

4. Extracuricular activities (artistic, cultural, sports and recreation

activities)

Performance of music, poetry, dance, painting, graphic and design exhibitions, sports competitions (football and basketball)

5. In the community activities

• Performances of music and poetry• Visites at significance cultural and historical

targets • Participation at religious services in the

community

6. Educational and institutional partnerships signed with various institutions, NGOs, humanitarian

foundations with role in the informal and formal education of young people:

• The foundation ,,That building word“, Counseling and fight against drugs Center, University of Craiova, District Library, local newspapers, Association ,,Europe Always”, Environmental Protection Agency and others

7. School competitions

MY WORK

• I am a special education teacher and I teach at V to IX classes counseling, school and professional guidance. My work involves the application of psychological test for students, literacy, student counseling and guidance, developing customized interventions plans.

• As programs and educational projects coordinator, I propose and coordinate the deployment of educational activities, educational partnerships and the partnerships with the community that aim at non-formal education needs pupils.

• As European information multipliers, I inform my colleagues on training programs and opportunities for achieving international partnerships with European financing.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

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