MCMC CONFERENCEMeeting the Challenge of
the Multicultural Classroom
26 April 2013Goldsmiths University of
London
“Teachers Continuous Professional Development –
our project in Portugal”
Ana Cristina Madeira Centro de Formação Dr. Rui Grácio
Lagos - Portugal
CONTENTS OF THE PRESENTATION
1. Portuguese CPD guidelines for teachers at local, regional and interregional European levels
2. Impacts of the programme on Teachers Continuing Professional Development
3. Synthesis: Photo Galery
1. PORTUGUESE CPD GUIDELINES
We need sensitive school communities that understand the diversity of personal, linguistic, cultural, social, ethnic and other differences as a human reality and not as a problem.
We need well prepared schools to deal with this pluralism with:
1. a strategic curricular plan of intercultural education;
2. CPD programmes centred on educational practice.
It was necessary to re-set, from the theoretical and methodological point of view, the models and practices of CPD according to:
a new paradigm of personal and professional development different from a paradigm of technical rationality;
new alternative methodologies (focused on teaching practice, strategies, experiences and stories) different from traditional models of teacher training (focused on teaching contents).
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IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TEACHERS CPD
Interregional level: Algarve/ LondonComenius training programme
Job Shadowing on Intercultural Education
Lagos: 20-28th May 2012London: 7-14th October 2012
40 teachersAll levels
Local level: research action
Pilot CPD on Intercultural Education: 20 teachers of all levelsLagos - March-October 2012
International Conference in London
“ Meeting the challenge of the Multicultural Classroom”
26 April 2013
Final results
Regional Level:training centred on teaching practiceDissemination of the CPD programme in
the Algarve: 6 Teacher Training Centres;
15 Councils involved; 80 teachers obtained credits for the career
progressionJanuary-June 2013
International Conference in Portugal
“Meeting the Intercultural Education”
120 teachers 26 May 2012
Interim results
WITH THE CPD PROGRAMME ON INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION, WE BELIEVE WE HAVE...
adjusted and integrated them in a new paradigmof inclusive school for the sustainable development
…taken teacher’s misconceptions...W
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..…helped teachers open a clear view of human diversity for intercultural understanding
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..…helped teachers avoid discrimination and look at the pupils from different angles...
... HELPED Teachers develop creative strategies for intercultural dialogue
European
African
Chinese
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belie
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..
We
belie
ve W
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.. … motivated Teachers and students for other interpretations!
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belie
ve W
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AVE.
..…helped Head Teachers find guidelines to manage
the Intercultural Education in a multicultural school
…made teachers feel intercultural knowledge...
as part of themselves
We
belie
ve W
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AVE.
..
FINALLY
