COMBATING SCHOOL
VIOLENCE
An ongoing activity for the Teacher
Training Centre of Iasi
• Preventing the phenomena of violence in
schools involves developing and
implementing strategies for different
categories of actors involved in school and
extracurricular activities. Violent behavior
in school areas, as demonstrated by
studies in the field, is generated by
multiple factors: individual, relational,
social, cultural, school and family
environment.
• Violence is the product of multiple levels of
influence of the above factors on a
person’s behavior. Consequently, only
taking into account the complex
interactions between them can offer a
consistent explanation of violence and at
the same time, can underpin a
comprehensive prevention strategy to
involve and empower representatives of
different groups of actors at various levels.
• The experience of other countries in this area
has revealed that the method which had the
greatest success was the one that involved all
educational stakeholders - teachers, pupils,
parents - as well as representatives of partner
institutions with responsibilities in preventing and
combating violence in the schools. The strategy
of the Ministry of Education, Research, Youth
and Sport involved all the categories of
educational actors in preventing violence in
schools.
• The Teacher Training Centre was actively
involved in achieving this objective.
The Teacher Trainers of the TTC Iasi, in
partnership with teachers and psychologists
from CJAPP made in 2008 the study: "Violence
in schools in Iasi”. This study responded to the
need of knowing the size, forms of manifestation
and causes of the phenomenon of violence in
the schools in Iasi, in drawing up strategies for
prevention and improvement of the situation.
• Starting from the different types and
manifestations of violence, the research
has provided a landmark in the forms in
which it is diagnosed, from the deviations
from the school program to moral, verbal
and physical violence.
This study was the basis for the strategy of
the County School Inspectorate of Iasi to
reduce the phenomenon of violence in the
schools of the County.
• Building on the results of work done between the
school years 2008-2011 in the schools of the Iasi
County (teacher training activities, training for
school management team, publishing of
information materials, meetings with
representatives of relevant institutions of the
community, etc.. ), the teacher trainers of TTC
developed informative and work materials
addressed to the educational actors through
which they can assist the interested schools in
identifying, preventing and combating
manifestations of violence.
• The TTC’s activity also focused on giving
methodological assistance to the school’s
key actors (teachers, managers) to
conduct training courses for school-level
actors on topics relevant to the issue of
school violence to fill a deficiency in the
training of teachers in this area and in the
lifelong training opportunities.
• Institutional development activities for the
County schools aimed at implementing the
national anti-violence strategy (County
Commission and committees in schools to
prevent and combat violence, board of
directors, committees of the coordinator
teachers).
• The work of the TTC Iasi to support the
implementation of the national antiviolence strategy aimed at improving the
quality and diversification of training
programs to include training of teachers
during courses on violence in schools.
• The main activities carried out by the TTC experts were:
- Conducting diagnosis studies regarding the training
needs on county and local level, on the topic of
prevention and combating school violence.
- The involvement of the TTC members in virtual
communities and communication practices on school
violence in order to identify problems faced by teachers
in implementing the measures to prevent and combat
school violence and the solutions tested.
• Provide support in developing a curriculum
for teacher training on preventing and
combating school violence.
• In terms of training in preventing and
combating violence in schools, the
activities aimed at developing a network of
trainers with expertise in preventing and
combating school violence at different
decision levels (school managers,
teachers).
• The main tasks that the TTC Iasi had under this
component were:
- Develop training modules and learning
resources for different groups of participants.
- Organizing training sessions for school
managers and teachers who were selected to
act as trainers at the local and county level.
- Portfolio assessment of people which are
trainers.
• In the future the TTC Iasi will work with the
representatives of the central and local
structures created by the “Strategy of the
Ministry of Education for reducing the
phenomenon of violence in schools" to develop
institutional capacity for becoming viable and
active structures, capable to perform their duties
specified by the strategy. This regards the
County Commission and School Committees to
prevent and combat violence in schools.
• The results that we anticipate arising from the objectives and
activities that we have proposed.
The most important include:
- Developing the institutional capacity of the structures responsible
with monitoring the phenomena of violence in schools and
transforming them into functional structures, which would contribute
effectively to a competent approach to the phenomena of violence
and to the prevention and improvements.
- Acquisition of skills for addressing school violence phenomena and
its prevention. We considered a number of 100 directors of schools,
150 board members from schools. Skills in preventing and reducing
school violence for 300 teachers.
- Establishing of a body, a network of trainers with skills in the same
area.
• GENERAL EXPECTED RESULT:
- reduction of violent episodes in schools;
- improving the forms of communication;
• PROGRAMMES FOR EXPERTS DUE TO
THE REFORM PROCESS AND
RECOGNIZED BY THE NATIONAL
CENTRE FOR TEACHER TRAINING
- class management
- counseling and orientation – nonformal
area
- participative democracy – The Citizen’s
Project
• TRAINING PROGRAMMES PROPOSED BY
THE TTC IASI
- early inclusive and intercultural education
- psycho- pedagogical methods for improving the
teaching skills of the teachers
- internet security – the generations’ security
- intercultural education in multi-ethnical
communities
- conflict management
- preventing and reducing school violence
•
PROJECTS IN WHICH THE TTC IASI IS INVOLED
Securitatea Internetului – Securitatea Tinerei Generatii – LLP
programme, Grundtvig SEIN – SEGE, GRU-09-P-LP-29-IS-TR
Eurostandards in continuous teacher training, Leonardo da
Vinci, VETPRO Mobility, LLP-LdV/VETPRO/2007/RO/049
MATRA 06/RM/9/1 – Prevenirea delincvenţei juvenile în incinta
şi zona adiacentă unităţilor de învăţământ preuniversitar, a
project of the Ministry of Educationa in partnership with the General
Police Inspectorate and sustained by the Netherlands
Face It, Grundtvig 1, LLP, 230305-CP-1-2006-1-RO-GRUNDTVIGG11, EUROED Iasi-Romania
Vocational Education of Teachers Working With Handicapped
Children - ,,Leonardo da Vinci” – LLP-LDV/PAR/2010/RO/058
Youth Educational Systems, Comenius Regio, LLP, COM-09-PP07-IS-IT
ACŢIUNI INOVATOARE PENTRU INTEGRAREA ÎN ITALIA A
ELEVILOR ROMÂNI ÎN PARCURSUL DE FORMARE
SUPERIOARA ŞI CONTINUĂ - FSE, priority axe 1 POS-DRU –
Project Code 3859/0/1/4124/2009, partnership with AGENZIA
FORMAZIONE LAVORO VENETO – ITALIA
LA UN CLICK DE EDUCATIA MODERNA SI EFICIENTA - FSE,
POS –DRU priority axe 1 DMI 1.3 , partnership with ISJ Iasi, CCD
Tulcea and SIVECO S.A
TINERII IMPOTRIVA VIOLENTEI - FSE, POS –DRU, priority axe 1,
partnership with MECTS and ISE
SCOALA – O NECESITATE NU DOAR UN DREPT - POS -DRU
priority axe 2 DMI 2.2 partnership with ,,ASOCIATIA TINERI
PENTRU VIITOR’’ and Consiliul Judetean Bacau
Establishment of the Counseling Office for teachers in the Teacher
Training Centre Iasi.