Coaches under the Embracing Diversity project are exchanging experience and successful practices at a seminar taking place today and tomorrow in Bankya.
The idea behind the seminar is to share both the most successful examples and the challenges they have faced during the spring trainings.
Within three months TSA organised 12 trainings under the Embracing Diversity project focused on how to make educational environments and classrooms more welcoming and engaging to children, regardless of their ethnic origin. The trainings were held in Lukovit, Sevlievo, Targovishte, Shumen, Peshtera, Plovdiv and Sredets. They were attended by 280 people, who were mostly teachers and parents, but representatives and professionals of local municipal administrations and social institutions were also among the attendees.
The goal of the Embracing Diversity project is to create fairer and equitable societies. During the trainings teachers were given the chance to develop awareness for diversity, tolerance and stereotypes through practical tasks and exercises. Participants shared their personal experience, thus enhancing their expertise.
The Embracing Diversity training project has been developed and implemented in Bulgaria by TSA following the same-name programme of the International Step by Step Association. The idea is to train pre-school and primary school teachers how to render educational environments more supportive to children of all ethnic groups, both academically and emotionally.