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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AVE.

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belie

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.. … motivated Teachers and students for other interpretations!

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belie

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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

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AVE.

..

FINALLY

OBRIGADA! THANK YOU!

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