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Family Help and School Success / Hull 2003

Family Help and School SuccessThe Pilot Course in Nuremberg

Bernhard JehleManfred SchreinerHeida Bröder-Benz

February 2003



Title of Project

Improving Literacy - „Phonological awareness“

„Phonological awareness“ means:

Identifying words in sentences...

syllables in words...

sounds in the syllables...

... of spoken language



Aims of Project

Early identification of at-risk children

targeted program for the development of children

at pre-school level and their first year at school

developing parents‘ phonological awareness

parental assistance to support their children

(overall aims of our project)



Overview of Project I

Duration of pilot programmes: ca. 8 weeks

Period of pilot programmes: 24/04/03 - 30/05/03

Total number of hours: 32h / 4h per week

Venue for delivery: primary school in

an

at-risk-area



Overview of Project II

Staffing: 2 instructors

child-care for pre-school children while parents

attend class

Evaluation: Pedagogical Institute of

the City of Nurembnerg



Target Audience I

Age: 20 to 40 years

Ethnicity: balanced mix of native Germans

permanently resettled migrants, new migrants

and migrants of German nationality from Eastern

Europe and the former Soviet Union

Gender: women / promoting participation

of fathers



Target Audience II

Employment Status: unemployed persons,

housewives, shift workers

Literacy needs: knowledge of German,

elementary literacy,

phonological consciousness

of the German language

Numeracy needs: ----



Overview of Network I

General Grundtvig Network (prospectively):

- Pedagogical Institute of the City of Nuremberg

- municipal education authority for public schools

- youth welfare office

- psychological counselling service for schools,

- foreigners‘ council

- municipal department for social services social welfare office ...



Overview of Network II

General Grundtvig Network (prospectively):

....

- Workers’ Welfare

- state education authority for public schools

- adult education center

- Veit-Stoß-secondary intermediate school

(Veit-Stoß-Realschule)



Overview of Network III

Network for sectional project „Phonological awareness“

- six primary schools

- state education authority and municipal education

authority for public schools

- PI

- University Erlangen-Nürnberg

- health office (school medical officer)



Marketing & Publicity for Project

informing schools at head-teachers conferences

after positive evaluation: informing the mass media

about the Nuremberg pilot project and the projects

of the participating partners

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Family Help and School Success / Hull 2003