Group 3

... and their homework

Title of the activity / Titre de l’activité: Socialising by Religion

Name / Nom: Camelia Arhip

Country / Pays: Romania

Type of Institution / Type d’institution: Mihai Eminescu High School

Underline the target audience / Indique le public cible:

Pre-service/Formation initiale In-service/Formation continue

Date(s): November 5th

Number of sessions / Nombre de séances: 2

Number of hours / Nombres d’heures: 6

Number of trainees / Nombre de participants: 29

Trainees’ profile / Profil du public: teachers and educators dealing with langues either as language teachers or as humanities teachers, 2 physics teachers

Description of the training situation / Description de la situation de formation: British Coucil seminar

Title of the activity / Titre de l’activité: Home, Sweet Home…

Name / Nom: Gyulnara Artchyan

Country / Pays: Armenia

Type of Institution / Type d’institution: Brusov State Linguistic University

Underline the target audience / Indique le public cible:

Pre-service/Formation initiale In-service/Formation continue

Date(s): November 15 – December 15

Number of sessions / Nombre de séances: 4

Number of hours / Nombres d’heures: 16

Number of trainees / Nombre de participants: 90

Trainees’ profile / Profil du public: 2nd year students of language, conference participants

Description of the training situation / Description de la situation de formation:

methodology classes, conference workshop

Title of the activity / Titre de l’activité: Me and the Group

Name / Nom: Piret Kärtner

Country / Pays: Estonia

Type of Institution / Type d’institution: Tartu University

Underline the target audience / Indique le public cible:

Pre-service/Formation initiale In-service/Formation continue

Date(s): November 23 – December 14

Number of sessions / Nombre de séances: 5,5

Number of hours / Nombres d’heures: 12x45

Number of trainees / Nombre de participants: 51

Trainees’ profile / Profil du public: students of MA studies, future class teachers minoring in a foreign language

Description of the training situation / Description de la situation de formation:

methodology sessions,

Title of the activity / Titre de l’activité: Names

Name / Nom: Petr Najvar

Country / Pays: the Czech Republic

Type of Institution / Type d’institution: Faculty of Educaion, Masaryk University

Underline the target audience / Indique le public cible:

Pre-service/Formation initiale In-service/Formation continue

Date(s): October 13 – December 1

Number of sessions / Nombre de séances: 3

Number of hours / Nombres d’heures: 4

Number of trainees / Nombre de participants: 6

Trainees’ profile / Profil du public: future primary school teachers

Description of the training situation / Description de la situation de formation:

Practical language sessions

Title of the activity / Titre de l’activité: Numbers and Symbols

Name / Nom: Ksenia Golubina

Country / Pays: Russia

Type of Institution / Type d’institution: Moscow State Linguistic Universtiy

Underline the target audience / Indique le public cible:

Pre-service/Formation initiale In-service/Formation continue

Date(s):

Number of sessions / Nombre de séances:

Number of hours / Nombres d’heures:

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Presentation and discussion of the revised versions of the materials

Everybody in the group presented the „new“ version of the materials and Petr and Nara have brought the „new new“ version.

Comments from the group on the activities

The group have not heard about Ksenia`s piloting, that is why no comments were stated on their behalf.

The group have discussed the „new“ versions of Camelia`s, Piret`s and Petr`s materials.

Suggestions for Camelia: exploiting more the teacher`s notes section.

Suggestions for Piret: rationale needs to be added, Teacher`s notes need to be expanded as for the methodology.

Suggestions for Petr: Teacher`s notes need to be made more explicit. The goals and aims are to be made more explicit.

Suggestions for Nara: more explicit links to the dimension are needed, as well as dividing the materials into segments. There are still possibilities of extending the activities in the Teacher`s notes. Review the introductory part, make it shorter.

Presentation of piloting and discussion

Camelia has piloted her own, Piret`s and Nara`s materials and provided the group with the evaluation sheet.

Piret has piloted her own, Petr`s and Camelia`s materials and provided the group with the evaluation sheet.

Nara has piloted her own materials and is going to pilot the rest of the team`s materials. She is about to provide the group with the evaluation sheet.

Petr has piloted his own materials. He is about to provide the group with the evaluation sheet.

The group have no information about Ksenia`s piloting.

Evaluation of the activities

The feedback for all piloted materials was positive.

Hurrah!!!!

Difficulties with implementation of plurilingualism and pluriculturalism

•socio-political context of the country (e.g. Nationalism, monocultural, ignorant and/or reluctant students, etc)

•Time, loaded syllabi, exams

• Group size

Suggestions for changes in teacher education

developing awareness

being persuasive with education administrators as for the issue (e.g. Countrywide teacher- training programmses related to the issue of pluriculturalism

introducing elective courses , special segments in language teacer education curriculum and pedagogical education in general