Milano CENTRAL DIRECTION FAMILY, SCHOOL AND SOCIAL POLICIES – European Project Office January 2008...

Milano

CENTRAL DIRECTION FAMILY, SCHOOL AND SOCIAL POLICIES – European Project OfficeJanuary 20081

ASSIST structured in-service-training for pre-school assistants and pre-

school teachers

Kick-off MeetingOslo

30/31 January – 1 February 2008

Municipality of MilanFamily, School and Social Policies Department

Milano


Inhabitants in Milan

Inhabitants in Milan

District 2136.915

District 3137.993

District 8177.095

District 9167.401

District 197.089

District 4150.418

District 7171.390

District 5120.480

District 6150.200

Total: 1.308.981 (Census 2005)

Milano


Children in Milan

Children in Milantotal 68.849

(census 2005)

age 1-2 23.994

age 3-4 22.201

age 0-1 12.061

age 5 10.593

age 0-1

age 1-2

age 3-4

age 5

Milano


School System in Italy

3 - 6

Nursery school

0 - 3

nursery

3

12

3

12

university First level Degree

3

12

54

Second level Degree

14 - 19

Senior high school

State Examination

3

12

45

6 - 11Primary school

11 - 14

Junior high school3

12

3

12

45

State Examination

first cycle

second cycle

Milano


CENTRAL DIRECTION FAMILY, SCHOOL AND SOCIAL POLICIES

Director of Central Direction

Secretarial staff

Support to Director

Services for Infancy

Services for the Family

Services for Underage and Young people

Services for Elderly

Services for Adults in difficult situation

Milano


SERVICES FOR INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD

Director of department

Secretarial staff

Administrative support

Educationalactivities for age

0-6

Supplementary educational activitiesSupport services

for the family

Milano


EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR AGE 0-6

Educationalactivities for

age 0-6

Planning and organization of

supplementary and educational activities

–Pedagogic support

Enrolments office Boarding fees office 58 DIDACTIC DIRECTIONS

Milano


EDUCATIONAL PERSONNEL

Total personnel in the Central Direction: 5534

3528

2006

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

Others

Educational personnel

Milano


58 DIDACTIC DIRECTIONS

484 services overall(for each Direction from 420 to 620 children)

Nursery schools 170Nurseries 105

Nurseries in contract 53

“Spring classes” 18

Nurseries in agreement 101

Micro-nurseries 37

277

Milano


SUPPLEMENTARY SERVICES

Hospital sections

TagesmutterToy-libraries

Family nurseries

Time for

families

Milano


EDUCATOR / CHILD RATIO

Ratio as provided in the most recent Trade Union agreement:

Age ratio

0 - 3 1/6

3 – 6 2/25

Milano


EDUCATIONAL PERSONNEL - NURSERIES

Number of educators in nurseries 1315

in particular :

with fixed-term contract 280with open-ended contract 1035

Assistants 428

Milano


EDUCATIONAL PERSONNEL – NURSERY SCHOOLS

Number of educators in nursery schools 1853

in particular :

with fixed-term contract 218 with open-ended contract 1635

Assistants 450

Milano


DISABLED CHILDREN

Nursery schools 306Nurseries 43Micro-nurseries 1Contracted nurseries 8

Total 358

Milano


CHILDREN ENROLLED – school year 2007/08

Nursery schools 21.364Nurseries 8.254

older infants

Municipal nurseries 4587 1161

Nurseries in contract 1296 125

Nurseries in convention 654 116

“Spring classes” 315

Milano


PERSONNEL QUALIFICATIONS

Director Co-director

University degree in psycological, sociological or pedagogic subjects

Employed in municipal services after specific selection/public competition

University degree in psycological, sociological or pedagogic subjects


Milano


TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Organizational, pedagogical-teaching, and administrative management of services

• Coordination of the whole Direction

•Detection of training

needs in order to ensure the personnel’s technical and professional updating and to support and develop the specific competences

Administrative, organizational and pedagogic-didactical management

•Support to the director

Director Co-Director

Milano


PERSONNEL QUALIFICATIONS

Educator Assistant

Degree of secondary specific school (social service worker, children assistant, assistant for children communities)


Degree of junior high school


Milano


TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Educator Assistant•Responsible for the direct contact with children

•Responsible for the planning, class management, observation, documentation and assessment

•Room arrangement and care

•Ensure orizontal and vertical continuity

•Encounters with parents

•Obligatory involvement in collegial activities and updating

•Teaching activities and extra teaching activities

•Room and equipment care, including safety, hygiene and room tidyness

•Initial information to users

•Support for teachers

Milano


DEMANDS FOR TRAINING

Detection of educational needs for the staff• Reinforcement of the basic skills of the teachers

• Awareness of new teaching problems in the lights of social-cultural changes and acting accordingly

• Awareness of a family-focused method, parents playing a primary role in the upbringing of children

• Updating relational skills toward parents and families

• Theoretical-practical updating of the staff based on new regulations for preschools and nurseries

• Theoretical-practical updating of the assistants, i.e:– Support to teachers in their activities– Initial information for users– Vigilance and surveillance of children– hygiene

Milano


DEMANDS FOR TRAINING

Training plan 2008-2009Themes:

• Care for infants (educators)

• Problems and disabilities (educators)

• Relations with the family (educators)

• Portfolio teaching programme and documentation (directors, co-directors and educators)

• Rules and limits 0-6 years of age (directors and co-directors)

• Training on dietetic programmes (directors, co-directors and educators)

• Training on Italian legislative Decree on Safety on Italian Food Safety law (directors, co-directors, educators and assistants)

Average course duration: 40 hours

Milano


SKILLS

theoretical-practical skills (knowing)

relational skills (knowing how to be )

intervention skills (knowing how to do)

Milano


SKILLS

Professional competence: it finds expression through practices of facilitation, easiness and structuring learning. It is regulated by the children’s feed-back

Accurate methodological awarenessAccurate methodological awareness, able to overcome , able to overcome

both single, spontaneous interventions and the severity both single, spontaneous interventions and the severity

of an action only based on methodof an action only based on method

The main object is children’ s advantage, needs and results. The more competence, the more the results of children are reinforced and ensured.

Taking into account each role, work-building is important.

Milano


CHALLENGES

• New organization of educational services

(in progress)

• Continuity 0-6 (creation of “spring classes”)

• Exchange of personnel in municipal nurseries and pre-schools, in order to export the municipal model

• Multicultural approach to education (improving multicultural subjects and opening to new needs)

• Reaching more children age 0-6 through a variety of supplementary and integrated services (tagesmutter, bonus bebè, family nurseries...)

Milano


STATUS

• Workers in the educational and teaching fields are differently respected and considered

• Altough they have nowadays a very high level of education, pre-school teachers still have a lower status if compared with other kind of teachers

• Until recently, their level of education and qualification was actually lower, whereas today an university degree is required. It didn’t help to raise their profile: a long-lasting process is required.

• There is still a difference between educators for 0-3 and teachers 0-6 children, which is being gradually removed. In Milan’s services it is used the word educator only.

Milano


NURSERY SCHOOLS – PUBLIC/PRIVATE

Municipal nursery school 170State nursery schools 22 Private nursery schools 106

Private nursery

schools 106

State nursery

schools 22

Municipal nursery

schools 170

Milano


NURSERIES – PUBLIC/PRIVATE

Public nurseries 277

Private nurseries 192

Public Nurseries 277

Private nurseries 192

Milano


EXPECTATIONS

– European Benchmarking

– Detecting improvement areas

– Identifying of timing, costs and resources necessary to perform improvements

Milano


Which parts of Sagene Model will be more interesting for your setting?

• Detection of training needs through a survey to be carried out among the staff

• In-service-training: work and learning occuring simultaneously, with no division between theory and practical experience

• Use of skills: organizing and sharing skills and experiences

• Innovative training program: more instruments for assistants in order to detect and manage problems correctly

Milano


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