Ολιστική προσέγγιση στην εκπαίδευση και ψυχική υγεία των μαθητών
Βάσει της ολιστικής προσέγγισης της εκπαίδευσης, οι εκπαιδευτικοί και οι επαγγελματίες υποστήριξης οφείλουν να προωθούν την εκπαίδευση ως μέσο ανάπτυξης ολόκληρης της προσωπικότητας του μαθητή, συμπεριλαμβανομένης της φροντίδας και υποστήριξης της ψυχικής του υγείας. Ωστόσο, σε πολλές περιπτώσεις, οι εκπαιδευτικοί δεν διαθέτουν επαρκή εφόδια για να στηρίξουν μαθητές που αντιμετωπίζουν αυξανόμενα ψυχικά προβλήματα.
Στόχος του έργου μας είναι να απευθυνθούμε σε εκπαιδευτικούς, διευθυντές σχολικών μονάδων και λοιπούς επαγγελματίες της εκπαίδευσης και της υποστήριξης, ώστε να αποκτήσουν κατάλληλη γνώση, υποστήριξη και κατανόηση, με σκοπό να αναγνωρίζουν έγκαιρα και να προσφέρουν άμεση υποστήριξη σε μαθητές με προβλήματα ψυχικής υγείας.
Η προσέγγιση αυτή απαιτεί εκπαίδευση των εκπαιδευτικών στον τομέα της αυτογνωσίας και της αυτοεκτίμησης, ενισχύοντας την ικανότητά τους να εντοπίζουν προβλήματα στους μαθητές και να παρέχουν κατάλληλη ψυχολογική στήριξη. Επιπλέον, το έργο μας στοχεύει στην υποστήριξη παιδιών με άγχος, στρες, επαγγελματική εξουθένωση, κοινωνικές και συναισθηματικές δυσκολίες.
Έχει διαπιστωθεί ότι παράγοντες στο σχολικό περιβάλλον επηρεάζουν την ψυχική υγεία των νέων. Οι υποστηρικτικές σχέσεις μεταξύ εκπαιδευτικών και μαθητών συνδέονται με καλύτερη ψυχική υγεία των μαθητών. Για τον λόγο αυτό, στοχεύουμε στη βελτίωση των βασικών δεξιοτήτων των μαθητών μέσω σωματικών, κοινωνικών και καλλιτεχνικών παρεμβάσεων που προάγουν την ευημερία των παιδιών. Οι προληπτικές και παρεμβατικές δράσεις του έργου μπορούν, έτσι, να συμβάλλουν στην αποφόρτιση του σχολικού ψυχολόγου και του συστήματος υγειονομικής περίθαλψης (π.χ. παιδοψυχιατρικές δομές).
Οι ψυχικές διαταραχές σε παιδιά και εφήβους αποτελούν σημαντική πρόκληση για τη δημόσια υγεία, ωστόσο πολλά παιδιά που υποφέρουν δεν έχουν πρόσβαση στη βοήθεια που χρειάζονται.
Σκοπός μας είναι να συμπεριλάβουμε τα παιδιά με λιγότερες ευκαιρίες στις στρατηγικές παρέμβασης ψυχικής υγείας μέσω σωματικών, κοινωνικών και καλλιτεχνικών δραστηριοτήτων, προσφέροντάς τους ευέλικτη, ολιστική και εξατομικευμένη υποστήριξη, σύμφωνα με την οριζόντια προτεραιότητα «ένταξη και ποικιλομορφία σε όλους τους τομείς της εκπαίδευσης, της κατάρτισης, της νεολαίας και του αθλητισμού». Μέσα από αυτά τα εργαλεία παρέμβασης, τα παιδιά μπορούν να αποκτήσουν πρόσβαση σε υποστήριξη ψυχικής υγείας μέσα στο σχολικό περιβάλλον.
Εταίροι του Έργου
Qualitas T & G Consulting and Service Ltd (Ουγγαρία)
Ιδρύθηκε το 1996 και δραστηριοποιείται στην υποστήριξη δημόσιων εκπαιδευτικών οργανισμών στην Ουγγαρία. Εξειδικεύεται στην παροχή συμβουλευτικών υπηρεσιών, εκπαιδεύσεων και ανάπτυξης στρατηγικής για οργανισμούς, με στόχο τη βελτίωση της ποιότητάς τους και την ενίσχυση της ανταγωνιστικότητάς τους στην εθνική και ευρωπαϊκή αγορά.
Ιστότοπος: Qualitas T&G
Istituto Comprensivo Perugia 2 (Ιταλία)
Είναι ένα ολοκληρωμένο σχολείο που εφαρμόζει τη μέθοδο Montessori, με 968 μαθητές ηλικίας 5-14 ετών. Συνεργάζεται στενά με το Πανεπιστήμιο της Περούτζια και συμμετέχει σε ευρωπαϊκά έργα από το 2015. Προάγει τη διαρκή επαγγελματική ανάπτυξη των εκπαιδευτικών του και φιλοξενεί επιμορφωτικά προγράμματα από όλη την Ιταλία και την Ευρώπη.
Ιστότοπος: Perugia 2
6ο Γυμνάσιο Πάτρας (Ελλάδα)
Δημόσιο γυμνάσιο με 190 μαθητές, εκ των οποίων 35 έχουν διαγνωσμένες Ειδικές Εκπαιδευτικές Ανάγκες. Ανήκει σε δίκτυο υποστήριξης και διαθέτει τάξεις ένταξης και εξειδικευμένο εκπαιδευτικό προσωπικό. Συμμετέχει ενεργά σε ευρωπαϊκά προγράμματα Erasmus+ τα τελευταία χρόνια, με έμφαση στη συμπερίληψη, τις τέχνες και την καινοτομία στη διδασκαλία.
Ιστότοπος: 6ο Γυμνάσιο Πάτρας
Agrupamento de Escolas de Arrifana, Santa Maria da Feira (Πορτογαλία)
Σχολικό συγκρότημα με 15 μονάδες εκπαίδευσης και 940 μαθητές (3-19 ετών), με σημαντικό ποσοστό μαθητών με ειδικές ανάγκες και κοινωνικά μειονεκτούντες. Έχει εμπειρία σε έργα Comenius, Leonardo και Erasmus+ από το 2008, με πάνω από 150 κινητικότητες. Εφαρμόζει καινοτόμες εκπαιδευτικές μεθόδους και επενδύει στη συμπερίληψη και την ψυχική υγεία μέσω ευρωπαϊκών συνεργασιών.
Ιστότοπος: Arrifana Schools
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Based on the holistic approach of education, teachers and helping professionals should promote the education as the development of the whole person including the help and support of the mental health of their pupils. However, in many cases teachers are under-equipped to help students with increasing mental health problems. Our aim is to address the priority group of teachers, school leaders and other teaching and helping professions to get adequate knowledge, support and understanding to be able to recognise and give front-line support to pupils with mental health problems.
PROJECT PARTNERS
-Qualitas T & G Consulting and Service Ltd Qualitas.
T & G Consulting and Service Ltd has been presented on the Hungarian public service market since 1996. The company was founded in 1996 when public education institutions first came to the position that they had to formulate their own strategy, goals and tasks assigned to their objects. We developed our first training programs and started our activity providing them support; we held training, conducted tutoring sessions, and we published on the subject. Our company has continuously developed the team of consultants and experts in which value-building, well-prepared people who support change and work with relevant expertise. In keeping with high professional standards, our office is able to help to improve the quality of organizations and increase their competitiveness on the domestic and European markets. Our readiness, our abilities meet the 21st century’s new challenges and opportunities, thus enabling us to continue to be present in the consulting and service market. Our mission is to work properly in our day-to-day work as Qualitas T & G Ltd. has been and will continue to be an advisory firm in the future, aiming to transform its knowledge into value for its partners, clients, consultants, experts and the environment.
- Istitutio Comprensivo Perugia 2
Our organisation is a comprehensive school with a nursery school, primary and secondary school (with 5-14-year-old students). The staff consists of 119 members. The total amount of students is 968. We work with the Montessori method that represents a carefully planned and built educational strategy with the continuous monitoring of the students’ achievement. Our pedagogical mission is that students need different timeframe and different methods to learn but they are all able to be get involved in the educational process. Our operational area is Perugia, in Italy. We work closely together with the University of Perugia in different educational projects and we are also an open school for teachers from all over Italy and Europe who would like to learn about the Montessori method. We focus on the continuous development of our teachers and organise internal and external trainings for them in different topics, from the ICT to the experimental learning.Our school has had a long experience in European projects, starting from 2015, with an Erasmus KA1 and Erasmus KA2 (S.O.S. Science).
-6o Gymnasio Patras
6o Gymnasio Patras is a day public secondary school of general education that follows the official national curriculum and is located centrally. The school belongs to a School Network of Educational Support (SDEY), since it hosts Inclusion classes in all three grades for students with diagnosed Special Educational Needs ranging from mild social-psychological adjustment to dyslexia or autism spectrum. We educate and teach 190 students aged 12-15 years old, 35 of whom are students with diagnosed Special Educational Needs and attend Inclusion Classes for 15 out of the 33-hour timetable. 17 are 1st and 2nd generation immigrants (3 of them speak no Greek at all). The teaching staff consists of approximately 25 teachers teaching general education classes and 4 teachers with specialization in Special Education. Moreover, the school acts as a host institution for the practical training of postgraduate students of special education. Educational programmes of school activities concerning Health Education, Cultural and Environmental matters are implemented every year on a voluntary basis. Our school wishes to be in line with modern European trends and actions in education and school life. This is the reason, it has been involved and implemented 4 European projects in the last 6 years. Through this participation, the benefit of communication and sharing good practices with European schools was enhanced, both for teachers and pupils alike. Our school has a lot of experience in EU grants and project implementation: The “European DNA” focused on the cultural aspects of the countries involved. “IDEAS– Inclusive Digital Education At School” aims at providing teachers with tools lessons plans and teaching resources that can be used online. The target group of the project is students at risk (learning, social, psychological, or economic difficulties). Other projects: 2021-23: Erasmus+, KA22 “IDEAS– Inclusive Digital Education At School” (2021-1-ES01-KA220-SCH-000034434); 2021-22: Erasmus+, KA220 entitled “3 Arts for environmental education: photography-dramadrawing” (2021-2-FR01- KA210-SCH-000050061): 3 Arts for Environmental Protection-PHOTOGRAPHY, DRAMA, AND DRAWING” is a short term project emphasizing the use of arts in the sensitization of learners towards the environment and finally, “School update” aims at equipping teachers with modern teaching methods and contexts; 2022-23: Erasmus+, KA121 “School Update” (2022-1- EL01-KA122-SCH-000071268).
-Agrupamento de Escolas de Arrifana,Santa Maria da Feira
Agrupamento de Escolas de Arrifana,Santa Maria da Feira is a group of schools (15 establishments) with students from preschool to the 12th grade, 940 students (3-19 years old), 58 students (3.4%) have Special Needs. The School works with 94 teachers and 54 are staff. We have also a Social Mediator and a Psicologist. On the past it was a TEIP (Educational Territory of Priority Intervention)of low socioeconomic level (53,3% have support from the School Social services). Parents have low qualifications. Most of the families don’t give support to their children or recognize the importance of school in their lives. This group of schools is taking into account the different motivations of the students and in order to give more opportunities to students at risk, since 2007, has extended the training program with Education and Youth Training Courses. The way that we care and include students with special needs and migrants (12%) in our classes, with special programs and teachers to promote success among them. Several teachers made KA1 Courses and jobshadowing concerning, Innovative methologies, ICT, Leadership, Conflict management and CLIL that are being replied at our school.Teachers are working hard to improve students success. Our experience is relevant to the level of innovation, internationalization and the ability to self-assess and define appropriate strategies to overcome obstacles, as well as the organization of international mobilities (students and teachers). We have European projects since 2008: Comenius,Leonardo and Erasmus+ and we developed this projects with more than 150 mobilities around Europe and share good practices.The school since then became more aware of the European citizenship working subjects like culture, refugees, environment, human rights, water, special needs, history, geography, arts, drama and improved our network with school from all Europe. We can say that we have the proper experience to share with other partners and improve mental health at school, specially with students and professionals.
This approach requires the training of teachers on self-knowledge and self-esteem that can strengthen the teachers’ ability to identify the problems of their pupils and to provide proper mental health support. As additional priorities, the other aim of our project is to support the children with anxiety, stress, burnout, social and emotional distress. Factors within the school environment have been identified to have an impact on young people’s mental health. The supportive teacher-student relationships are associated with the students’ better mental health, for this reason we would like to improve the key competences of the students by developing physical, social, and artistic interventions that can promote the child’s well-being. Consequently, the preventive and intervention activities of the project could relieve the burden on the school psychologist and health care system (e.g. pediatric psychiatric institutions). Child and adolescent mental health conditions pose a public health challenge, however, a number of children suffering from mental health conditions are not accessing the help they need. Our goal is to include these children with less opportunities to the mental health intervention strategies with physical, social, and artistic activities to give them flexible, integrative, and personalized support according to the horizontal priority (inclusion and diversity in all fields education, training, youth and sport). By using these intervention tools, the children can have access to mental health support in school settings.
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