FAMILY LEARNING

Dealing with family learning in shools

Course summary

The course aims to strengthen the school-community link by offering parents opportunities to learn how to support their children’s learning .
The course consists of 4 modules and will provide participants with knowledge on family learning, how to design, customize, pilot and implement family learning programmes.

The course includes guided practical use of refletive journalling by the particiopants, independent internet information and documentation before, during and after the course, presentations of successful programmes, observation of live and recorded sessions, interactive small and big group discussions on family learning methods, session development workshops , session piloting and customization

Preparatory activity and post course mentoring – on the internet and as recommended by the trainer - independent information and documentaion on family learning, adult learning, learning barriers with adults, learning styles, communcation methods and learning strategies, listening and effective presentations and the likes, service management.
The trainees will receive a certificate of participation, a set of 30 parents-children joint sessions, and the communication plan after the course

Target groups : teachers in pre school and primary education, adult educators, teacher trainers, educational guides and cousellors, headteachers/principals/managers of schools and adult education providers, members of students/teachers councils in adult education

Trainers :

VIORICA aLEXANDRU : Master in social services management; Currently Adult education adviser to Centre Education 2000+, country co-ordintaor of the G1-Parents empowerment for family literacy project (2002-2004); co-author to the English version and author of the Romanian version of the parents tutor training programme(2004, 2006) , mentor to parents and children tutors , participant and contributor in family literacy conferences and consultations in Europe and in Romania , developer of the parents clubs and club management tools in Romania

GABRIELA BARBULESCU – Psychologist and primary school teacher for 10 years, extensive experience and expertise as a family literacy tutor; practitioner and developer of family literacy sessions to specific needs or cutomization of existing sessions to participant’s needs; currently running parents club programmes based in Bucharest

Full course description :

Comenius/Grundtvig Course Database 2006-2007
http://comcdb.programkontoret.se/CourseManagement/ASP/CourseSearch.asp
Date, location & reference numbers in the Comenius/Grundtvig database 2006-2007
Applicants will find full course description and will have to refer to the course title and reference numbers as follows :

Dealing with family learning in schools

RO-2006-013 – for 6-11 November,2006 – Bucharest, Romania
RO-2007-001 – for 26-31 March, 2007 – Bucharest , Romania

• Maximum intake : 15 students per edition
• Participation fee : 750 Eur, including course participation and subsistance
• Cancelation fee : 100 Eur

Registration

• Pre-registration deadline : 31 May 2006, 1st edition
  31 August 2006, 2nd edition
• Confirmation by organizers : 30 June 2006, 1st edition
  30 September 2006, 2nd edition
• Cancelation allowed by# : 31 July , 1st edition
  15 November 2006, 2nd edition
• Fee payment deadline : 16 October, 1st edition
  31 January 2007, 2nd edition

#Any cancellation after the 31st of July 2006 is subject to a cancellation fee of 100 Eur., 1st edition
# Any cancellation after the 15th of November 2006 is subject to a cancellation fee of 100Eur, the 2nd edition

Payment transferrable to :
Centre Educatia 2000+ (CEDU)
Bank details

Name of the bank: ABN AMRO BANK (ROMANIA) S.A.

Account no.: RO94ABNA4100264100071893

SWIFT code: ABNAROBU

VAT no.: R12579047

Your contact at CEDU :

• Viorica Alexandru
  Adult Education Adviser
  Caderea Bastiliei 33
  Sector 1
  Bucharest
  Tel :00 40 21 212 07 81
  Fax : 00 40 21 2120779
  Mobile : 00 40 722355693
  valexandru@cedu.ro
  www.cedu.ro