On June 26th to 29th 2023, the Training activity for teachers of primary and pre-primary education took place in Nicosia, Cyprus as well as the Transnational meeting of the partners of the project. The Training was organised from the partner AMusEd, an organization that specializes in training children, youth and in-service teachers through Music, Drama and Dance.
23 Selected teachers of the partner countries of the project (Regional Directorate of Primary and Secondary Education of East Macedonia and Thrace from Greece, A.MUS.ED. AMALGAMATE MUSIC EDUCATION LTD from Cyprus, Fundacja Rozwoju Aktywnosci Miedzynarodowej i Edukacyjnej -FRAME from Poland, UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CATANIA from Italy and Viksjöfors skola from Sweden), they had the opportunity to get to know the results developed in the project (SMILE Teacher's Guide, SMILEs Repository) and get to know practical applications of using music as an educational tool.
Τhe Training activity included the following:
- The presentation of the general objectives and goals of the project,
- Training on the basic elements connected to music to its multicultural dimension. This training had the form of a workshop where the participants experienced the music in various forms. This helped the trainees to break any possible barriers of expressing themselves and experiencing new forms of art in order to reinforce their confidence to apply these methods in the classroom.
- Introduction on research that highlights the impact of music into the development of a more multicultural approach and acceptance of others.
- Workshop on some parts of the training modules. This was the part of the training where the participants challenged to explore the methods applied for inclusive education.
- Feedback and discussion. Trainees discussed their experience and give the feedback to the trainers, a procedure that will help the consortium develop the further PRs.
The results of the project will soon be available to all teachers and interested parties at the program website http://smile-pr.eu/index.php/en/
