CEIP MARTÍNEZ VALLS' PARTNER PRESENTATION

CEIP Martínez Valls Ontinyent (Valencia) 

Websites: https://portal.edu.gva.es/ceipmartinezvalls/

 Our organisation is called Martinez Valls School and it was created in 1987. It is a kindergarden and Primary school (students are between 2 to 12 years old) and we cover the compulsory curriculum settled by the Spanish Government and Valencian Community region. We have 420 students and 30 teachers. The school is in Ontinyent, a town of 35000 inhabitants, located in Albaida’s Valley surrounded by mountains, there is an important river called Clariano. It is in the East of Spain. Languages are a key subject in our school. Because of that, we have a linguistic project in three languages which are Spanish, Valencian and English as a foreign language. Since 2017 we are immersed in the European Language Portfolio based on the European Framework of Languages. Our methodology is based on cooperative work, tasks based learning, promotion of the creativity, active learning and Pedagogy based on Montessori, Waldorf, Pickler, manipulative Maths, sponsorship reading students and inclusive projects. Besides we are doing an innovation pedagogical project in order to improve the outdoors facilities of the school traditionally called playground area. The purpose is to reforest these surfaces planting more trees, bushes, herbal plants, grass, etc. The final goal is transforming these areas in learning ones including a climbing wall, balance games with big rocks, ropes, wooden sticks, Tibetan bridge, wooden huts, Every year we prepare and organize extracurricular activities suitable for everybody. For example: playing Chess tournaments, reading club, Theatre Festival, school radio or the development of skills to solve conflicts among fellow students such as mediation.

GALILEO'S PARTNER PRESENTATION

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/galileoprogettinonprofit

Galileo Progetti Nonprofit Kft. is a non-profit organization, founded in 2009 and based in Budapest. 

Our main objectives of Galileo are the development of the social economy and social sector and the inclusion policies of disadvantaged

people or people at risk of social exclusion, such as Roma minorities and disabled people. We work for… 

- Social inclusion 

- Employment 

- Equal opportunities 

- Inclusive and intercultural education 

- Improvement of Early Childhood Education quality 

- Fighting poverty, exclusion, discrimination 

- Full citizenship

Through its activities, GALILEO aims to contribute to:

- a sustainable development and growth 

- to strengthen social inclusion and social economy in Hungary 

- promoting the sensitization of professionals and society, sharing good practices 

- increase the European dimension. 

We work mostly at European level, promoting the exchange of good practices and experiences, and we

work in collaboration with Hungarian private and public local bodies. We believe

that international experiences increase personal and professional skills and

have a positive impact at the local level. 

We love nonformal and informal education, we love music (take a look at our office :-D ) and we love team-work!

And now… we know, you are curious! – Why the name “GALILEO”? …Take a guess! "And yet it moves “: this is a phrase attributed to the Italian physicist and

philosopher Galileo Galilei after being forced to recant his claims that the Earth moves around the Sun, rather than the converse. 

Like Galileo, we want to affirm the principle that we do not give up in face of possible difficulties, and we continue to promote our ideals of a more inclusive, equitable,

ever-moving society!

MIQ'S PARTNER PRESENTATION

Facebook page link https://www.facebook.com/montessoriIQ/ 

 Webpage link: https://montessorituzla.ba/ 

The traditional approaches of pre-school institutions, where the transfer of knowledge is solely understood as a one-way process; teacher-to-child. Unlike that, the Montessori Method implies an approach directed to the child, where the teacher has a role of a facilitator or a consultant. It is based on individual approach to each child, with the aim to stimulate the processes of self-forming or self-education. Unlike traditional pre-school institutions, Montessori IQ Corner provides safe and stimulating environment for learning, work in small groups, individual dedication by teachers, effective learning methods and flexible curriculum. 

The Montessori IQ Corner offer the surrounding, which stimulate development of your child, and teachers trained in Montessori method, who understand child’s development and have special competences to create the child’s learning in natural and spontaneous manner. As a result, this leads to child’s higher developmental achievements and intelligence. 

The mission of the Private Pre-school Institution Montessori IQ Corner is to become an institution to raise children to be able to face the reality of our life today, using the Montessori method where “love is not a dependence, and discipline is not subordination”.

PONGERJAS' PARTNER PRESENTATION

The facebook link of institution - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100016421866442 webpage - http://pongerjas.ee 

 Brief description - Kindergarten Põngerjas is an educational institution, its main objective is providing preschool education. There are children 1,5-7 years old. Children are formed in 10 separate groups according to their age. 

The kindergarten programme strictly follows the national curriculum. The kindergarten has the mission in Narva city: to educate children with fewer opportunities (learning, social, cultural, economic obstacles, some kids live in remote rural communities, majority of children with immigrant background).

JEB'S PARTNER INTRODUCCION

Webpage: http://www.bolcsode-bp08.hu/en.html

 The United Nurseries of Józsefváros at District 8 of Budapest provides day care at seven sites, with 492 available places, for young children from twenty weeks up to three years of age. The institution is maintained by the local government.

 Each of our nurseries has its own kitchen. We have 40 children groups and 198 workers.

 We have many free services. For example: child care at home, psychologist and special needs teacher consultation, weekend playhouse, Sure Start Children’s House, donations, preventive development programs and others. We create a loving, secure and familiar atmosphere for every child in our facilities.

ARCA'S PARTNER PRESENTATION

WEB: https://www.arcacoop.org/firenze/ 

FB: https://www.facebook.com/arcacooperativasociale/

 ABOUT ARCA: Arca Social Cooperative is a non-profit organization established in 1983 based in Florence. From 1993 Arca is a Social Cooperativa type A – based on 381/92 National Law. ARCA deals with the management of social, welfare and educational services both designed and provided privately and in agreement with Public Administrations. It counts over 1250 workers, of which over 475 work in the field of early childhood. 

Arca manages services for early childhood, under18, disabled people, elderly people, drug addicts, people with psychiatric discomfort and in disadvantaged situations or at risks of social exclusion in the Tuscany Region. Arca has a very solid local and regional network and collaborates with several public bodies, universities, schools and NGOs.

 Arca has expanded its dimension at European level, thanks to numerous European projects, and intends to continue in this direction, offering opportunities for professional growth and participation at European level to its workers. Since 1989, it has been managing early childhood services. Actually, it manages over 100 early childhood education services, mostly nursery but also kindergartens and institutions hosting children not living in their families.

PROJECT INTRODUCTION

The settling-in period (adaptation phase) is one of the most important phases in preschool education (0/6 years), and has an important impact on the quality of the preschool life of the children, and even on the future school life. It’s a big step not only for the children but also for their parents and family, childhood services are useful both for the children and the development of their personality, and for the parents and the improvement of their parental skills. It’s important for all families, but especially for the most vulnerable ones, such as migrants, belonging ethnic minorities such as Roma, with an economic or cultural poverty situation, risk of social exclusion etc. 

 The aim of FIRST STEPS project is to identify and share European good practices on this important adaptation phase in pre-schools; to analyze and compare the important activity of socio-behavioral adaptation of the child in childcare services; collect data about the local/regional/national context of partner countries; give the opportunity to the ECEC professional to discuss on project topic, share their experiences, to expand professional knowledge and skills. 

 To achieve these goals will be used several methodologies, such as presentations; professional discussion; direct testimony of parents, teachers and other subjects involved in the first adaptation period; workshop; job shadowing; observation and visit to the preschools. One innovative methodology is the realization of a VIDEO for “STREAMING JOB SHADOWING and OBSERVATION”: each partner will realize, during the adaptation period, share and discuss it during the 5 training sessions.

FIRST STEPS project is part of the overall Early Childhood Education and Care Research and Quality Development activity, developed at European level by Galileo and its partners, engaged in various previous and actual European projects. In the project are involved 6 organizations from 5 EU countries: - Montessori IQ Corner (Bosnia & Herzegovina), private pre-school institution - ARCA Cooperativa Sociale (Tuscany, Italy), social enterprise that manages several early childhood services - GEDI (Catalonia, Spain), that manages 6 municipal-owned ECEC centers - Jozsefvarosi Egyesitett Bolcsodek (Hungary), that is managing the nurseries of the VIII district of Budapest - Preschool Põngerjas (Estonia), educational institution on the Russian border providing a bilingual education. - Galileo Progetti (Hungary), project coordinator, non-profit enterprise promoting social inclusion policies, education quality development, social economy and social field sector in general and European Networking and cooperation. In addition to presenting the methodologies adopted in the settling-in period, each organization shares with partners its experiences with specific target groups: - Roma ethnic minority in Hungary - Inclusive education of children with disabilities in Italy - Migrants background in Spain - Bilingualism and border specificities in Estonia - Montessori method in Bosnia & Herzegovina 

 In order to achieve these objectives, during the FIRST STEPS Project will be implemented 2 Transnational Project Meeting and Short-term Joint Staff Training (1 in each country), involving around 100 international participants, mostly educators, teachers and managers of Early Childhood Education and Care services, and local stakeholders, decision makers, municipalities, higher education institutions, in addition to the staff of the host organization. Through the mobility events and the dissemination activities, the project will reach about 800 direct and indirect beneficiaries. As final results of the project, the training materials and outputs will be summarized in a Final Collection, in English, an interactive virtual document freely available and shared with stakeholders and all interested people.