40 likes | 230 Views
Sensitisation of teachers. Target group: teachers in technical schools Christiana Weidel. Sensitisation for (technician) teachers. Sensitise the male oriented “surrounding” of technical schools for girls: Rooms, walls and pictures! Language! Teacher’s habits!
E N D
Sensitisation of teachers Target group: teachers in technical schools Christiana Weidel Supported by the European Commission in the Socrates/Grundtvig Program
Sensitisation for (technician) teachers Sensitise the male oriented “surrounding” of technical schools for girls: • Rooms, walls and pictures! • Language! • Teacher’s habits! and support new role models for female technicians Supported by the European Commission in the Socrates/Grundtvig Program
Changing teacher‘s habit? 1. Involve the director & the inspector of the school 2. Sensitise the perception of the teacher • Explain the aim of the project and show the need to raise the number of girls in the school • Let them imagine to be a girl and identify the hurdles • Speak about concrete situations and concrete fears 3. Help them to find their own solutions • Imagine concrete situations • Think about the consequences of concrete solutions • Let them elaborate the costs, the resources and the outcomes of the potential solution Supported by the European Commission in the Socrates/Grundtvig Program
“Golden rules” • Go: top down, involve the top.Even if you are using a bottom-up approach. • Use participatory methods to identify pitfalls.... and let everybody experience it! • Enable tailored solutions:By the target groups themselves. Supported by the European Commission in the Socrates/Grundtvig Program