“Itinerant teachers”, 2000-2001, with the financial support of Romanian Smile Appeal
Education and instruction for the non-transportable children with mobility impairments,
hospitalized children or children with special needs
School at home. Education and instruction of non-transportable children with mobility impairements
There are non-transportable children with mobility impairments who are not able to attend any of the education modules or, even if they are, they do it sporadically, between treatments or hospitalizations. Even though legislation refers to their right to be taught at home, the schools provide teachers for them only sporadically. The main argument: there are not enough teachers. In fact, teachers are not interested to do this, because it is a non-compulsory activity and the payment is very low. They prefer to carry out other extra-school activities, which are well paid (for example, private lessons for healthy children coming from families with financial possibilities)
Aiming to respond to this necessities we have organized for them school at home.
Beneficiaries : 6-12 non-transportable children (depending on the project), 7-19 years old including illiterated ones
Activities :
• elementary instruction - training sessions (2 hrs 3 time in a week), including literacy where the case is
development of their skills and aptitudes (painting, music etc.)
social integration. They have been brought to the scholar festivities held on the occasion of Christmas, Easter, Child's Day, birthdays at Marie Curie Hospital . They have met both hospitalised children and pupils in an ordinary school and they performed together songs and poems. They have experienced unique and very special moments, totally different from their isolated existence.
an individualized curriculum was developed according to the needs of each of the beneficiaries . Our auxiliary didactic materials were also used.
the beneficiaries have been surveyed by marking on special psycho-pedagogical observation records their evolution and progress on the intellectual, language and volitive-atitudinal level
The link with the families and also their psycho-pedagogical counseling was assured
Results:
the pupils have been registered in state school.
at the end of the school year they have been passed tests and have achieved graduating certificates, according to their training.
New possibilities of knowledge and study by mean their own forces have been opened for all them. The pupils became more optimistic and new possibilities of social and professional integration have been opened for them.
