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Resource Centre
A center of educative resources will be established, in order to support teachers of the KGs in taking care of the KG environment
and, to maintain active and self sustained the teachers network.
General objective is to realize educative environments, welcoming and respectful of child needs through the production of
didactic games and didactic furniture.
Specific objectives will be:
- Train and involve teachers in the production of didactic materials with poor and recycled materials;
- Improve the cooperation between school and family, facilitating the collective and active involvement of families in: designing and building welcoming educative environment; activities programming; educative development of the child.
- Grant continuity and sustainability in the medium and long term to the changes activated within the present operation, giving to the network a place where to meet, exchange opinions, experiences, knowledge on issues related to early childhood education and children's rights.
The center will be organized as follows:
- One workshop for the production of didactic games with poor and/or recycled materials and for the construction of small furniture. The workshop will be equipped with small carpentry tools - handsaw, drill, sandpaper, pliers, screwdriver etc. - and other useful tools - sawing machine, glue pistol etc..;
- One store for materials - wood, recycled materials, rejected materials, fabrics, stationery, colours etc..;
- One meeting room to be used by the network, for self organized trainings or other events. The meeting room will be furnished with a library with thematic books, one computer, one printer and a telephone.
- One small van to be used transporting the workshop in the KGs, involving directors, teachers and most of all parents in the production of games and furniture.
The centre will be established in the offices of the newly established “KGs Teachers Union Trade”, sponsored by the local NGO Palestinian Working Woman Society for Development.
Activities:
Within the first phase of the project the following activities will be carried out:
- identification and purchase of equipment for the workshop and store;
- identification and purchase of furniture and equipment of the meeting room;
- realization of the workshops;
- restore the old furniture, repairing, painting or using special techniques such as decoupage;
- organize the class rooms, through the new furniture, corners dedicated to specific educative activities;
- involvement of parents in workshops and construction of equipments;
- elaboration and distribution of a practical guide on how to realize furniture equipments and didactic games for children;
- organizing regular monthly meetings of the teachers network and workshops.
A preliminary agreement with the PWWSD has been signed, foreseeing that all equipments purchased will be donated at the end of the project to them, and made usable by all teachers even non registered to the Trade Union.
Accessibility will be granted by bylaws and article no. 3 of the “KGs Teachers Union Trade” Constitution which emphasize the role of the Trade Union in providing the community with services for the support of the socio, economic and developmental process in the Palestinian society.
Furthermore, follows under the strategy of the Trade Union to involve always new teachers, raise reputation and be supported by a group of professionals.
Sustainability will be granted by the following activities:
- identification and purchase of equipment for the workshop and store;
- identification and purchase of furniture and equipment of the meeting room;
- The sponsoring of the PWWSD.
- Within the networking activity the KGs Teachers Union Trade will establish relations with other unions, organizations and syndicalism bodies that should support the sustainability of the resource center through providing raw materials and funds.
Reinforce links between teachers members of the network and the “Teachers Trade Union”.
The KGs Teachers Trade Union is an independent body supported by the local NGO the Palestinian Working Woman Society for Development.
A pre-agreement has been signed with this organization which will be responsible of organizing meetings or workshops in order to involve teachers of the network in the Trade Union. A minimum number of two meetings for each governorate will be held.
Topics proposed for the meetings are:
- The Palestinian Labour Law;
- The importance of the syndicalism work;
- Human rights, women's rights and gender;
- Building alliances, negotiation skills and collective barraging.
The Palestinian Working Woman Society for Development and the representatives of the KGs Teachers Trade Union will organize the meetings and workshops requested free of charge.
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