Milano
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ASSIST structured in-service-training for pre-school assistants and pre-
school teachers
Kick-off MeetingOslo
30/31 January – 1 February 2008
Municipality of MilanFamily, School and Social Policies Department
Milano
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Inhabitants in Milan
Inhabitants in Milan
District 2136.915
District 3137.993
District 8177.095
District 9167.401
District 197.089
District 4150.418
District 7171.390
District 5120.480
District 6150.200
Total: 1.308.981 (Census 2005)
Milano
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Children in Milan
Children in Milantotal 68.849
(census 2005)
age 1-2 23.994
age 3-4 22.201
age 0-1 12.061
age 5 10.593
age 0-1
age 1-2
age 3-4
age 5
Milano
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School System in Italy
3 - 6
Nursery school
0 - 3
nursery
3
12
3
12
university First level Degree
3
12
54
Second level Degree
14 - 19
Senior high school
State Examination
3
12
45
6 - 11Primary school
11 - 14
Junior high school3
12
3
12
45
State Examination
first cycle
second cycle
Milano
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CENTRAL DIRECTION FAMILY, SCHOOL AND SOCIAL POLICIES
Director of Central Direction
Secretarial staff
Support to Director
Services for Infancy
Services for the Family
Services for Underage and Young people
Services for Elderly
Services for Adults in difficult situation
Milano
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SERVICES FOR INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD
Director of department
Secretarial staff
Administrative support
Educationalactivities for age
0-6
Supplementary educational activitiesSupport services
for the family
Milano
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EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR AGE 0-6
Educationalactivities for
age 0-6
Planning and organization of
supplementary and educational activities
–Pedagogic support
Enrolments office Boarding fees office 58 DIDACTIC DIRECTIONS
Milano
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EDUCATIONAL PERSONNEL
Total personnel in the Central Direction: 5534
3528
2006
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Others
Educational personnel
Milano
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58 DIDACTIC DIRECTIONS
484 services overall(for each Direction from 420 to 620 children)
Nursery schools 170Nurseries 105
Nurseries in contract 53
“Spring classes” 18Nurseries in agreement 101Micro-nurseries 37
277
Milano
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SUPPLEMENTARY SERVICES
Hospital sections
TagesmutterToy-libraries
Family nurseries
Time for
families
Milano
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EDUCATOR / CHILD RATIO
Ratio as provided in the most recent Trade Union agreement:
Age ratio
0 - 3 1/6
3 – 6 2/25
Milano
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EDUCATIONAL PERSONNEL - NURSERIES
Number of educators in nurseries 1315
in particular : with fixed-term contract 280with open-ended contract 1035
Assistants 428
Milano
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EDUCATIONAL PERSONNEL – NURSERY SCHOOLS
Number of educators in nursery schools 1853
in particular : with fixed-term contract 218 with open-ended contract 1635
Assistants 450
Milano
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DISABLED CHILDREN
Nursery schools 306Nurseries 43Micro-nurseries 1Contracted nurseries 8
Total 358
Milano
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CHILDREN ENROLLED – school year 2007/08
Nursery schools 21.364Nurseries 8.254
older infantsMunicipal nurseries 4587 1161Nurseries in contract 1296 125
Nurseries in convention 654 116“Spring classes” 315
Milano
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PERSONNEL QUALIFICATIONS
Director Co-director
University degree in psycological, sociological or pedagogic subjects
Employed in municipal services after specific selection/public competition
University degree in psycological, sociological or pedagogic subjects
Employed in municipal services after specific selection/public competition
Milano
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TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Organizational, pedagogical-teaching, and administrative management of services
• Coordination of the whole Direction
•Detection of training needs in order to ensure the personnel’s technical and professional updating and to support and develop the specific competences
Administrative, organizational and pedagogic-didactical management
•Support to the director
Director Co-Director
Milano
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PERSONNEL QUALIFICATIONS
Educator AssistantDegree of secondary specific school (social service worker, children assistant, assistant for children communities)
Employed in municipal services after specific selection/public competition
Degree of junior high school
Employed in municipal services after specific selection/public competition
Milano
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TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Educator Assistant•Responsible for the direct contact with children
•Responsible for the planning, class management, observation, documentation and assessment
•Room arrangement and care
•Ensure orizontal and vertical continuity
•Encounters with parents
•Obligatory involvement in collegial activities and updating
•Teaching activities and extra teaching activities
•Room and equipment care, including safety, hygiene and room tidyness
•Initial information to users
•Support for teachers
Milano
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DEMANDS FOR TRAINING
Detection of educational needs for the staff• Reinforcement of the basic skills of the teachers
• Awareness of new teaching problems in the lights of social-cultural changes and acting accordingly
• Awareness of a family-focused method, parents playing a primary role in the upbringing of children
• Updating relational skills toward parents and families
• Theoretical-practical updating of the staff based on new regulations for preschools and nurseries
• Theoretical-practical updating of the assistants, i.e:– Support to teachers in their activities– Initial information for users– Vigilance and surveillance of children– hygiene
Milano
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DEMANDS FOR TRAINING
Training plan 2008-2009Themes:
• Care for infants (educators)
• Problems and disabilities (educators)
• Relations with the family (educators)
• Portfolio teaching programme and documentation (directors, co-directors and educators)
• Rules and limits 0-6 years of age (directors and co-directors)
• Training on dietetic programmes (directors, co-directors and educators)
• Training on Italian legislative Decree on Safety on Italian Food Safety law (directors, co-directors, educators and assistants)
Average course duration: 40 hours
Milano
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SKILLS
theoretical-practical skills (knowing)
relational skills (knowing how to be )
intervention skills (knowing how to do)
Milano
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SKILLS
Professional competence: it finds expression through practices of facilitation, easiness and structuring learning. It is regulated by the children’s feed-back
Accurate methodological awarenessAccurate methodological awareness, able to overcome , able to overcome both single, spontaneous interventions and the severity both single, spontaneous interventions and the severity of an action only based on methodof an action only based on methodThe main object is children’ s advantage, needs and results. The more competence, the more the results of children are reinforced and ensured.Taking into account each role, work-building is important.
Milano
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CHALLENGES
• New organization of educational services
(in progress)
• Continuity 0-6 (creation of “spring classes”)
• Exchange of personnel in municipal nurseries and pre-schools, in order to export the municipal model
• Multicultural approach to education (improving multicultural subjects and opening to new needs)
• Reaching more children age 0-6 through a variety of supplementary and integrated services (tagesmutter, bonus bebè, family nurseries...)
Milano
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STATUS
• Workers in the educational and teaching fields are differently respected and considered
• Altough they have nowadays a very high level of education, pre-school teachers still have a lower status if compared with other kind of teachers
• Until recently, their level of education and qualification was actually lower, whereas today an university degree is required. It didn’t help to raise their profile: a long-lasting process is required.
• There is still a difference between educators for 0-3 and teachers 0-6 children, which is being gradually removed. In Milan’s services it is used the word educator only.
Milano
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NURSERY SCHOOLS – PUBLIC/PRIVATE
Municipal nursery school 170State nursery schools 22 Private nursery schools 106
Private nursery
schools 106
State nursery
schools 22
Municipal nursery
schools 170
Milano
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NURSERIES – PUBLIC/PRIVATE
Public nurseries 277
Private nurseries 192
Public Nurseries 277
Private nurseries 192
Milano
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EXPECTATIONS
– European Benchmarking
– Detecting improvement areas
– Identifying of timing, costs and resources necessary to perform improvements
Milano
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Which parts of Sagene Model will be more interesting for your setting?
• Detection of training needs through a survey to be carried out among the staff
• In-service-training: work and learning occuring simultaneously, with no division between theory and practical experience
• Use of skills: organizing and sharing skills and experiences
• Innovative training program: more instruments for assistants in order to detect and manage problems correctly
Milano
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