Focus Areas

Organization: Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center

Countries involved: Slovakia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, and Moldova

The goal of this project is to develop diagnostic assessment and teaching procedures that have a high likelihood of success with Roma children, and which will be disseminated to other projects across Central Europe who are dealing with the education of Roma children, both within the public education systems and the NGO sector. The following outcomes are expected: diagnostic instruments that can be used to assess children’s literacy concepts will be developed in the five languages of the partner countries; tutoring procedures, written up in training manuals (five languages), that are related to the diagnostic information revealed by assessments are developed; the assessment and tutoring strategies will be field tested with at least twelve students in each participating country (total 84 students); the findings, including all training materials will be disseminated to groups concerned with the education of Roma children in each country, including Step by Step, Roma centers and RWCT programs; an average of 105 primary school teachers will be trained to deliver remedial education (assessment and one-on-one tutoring of students aged 6-8); a total of 190 students will be assessed and assisted with remedial education activities.

Romania |  $122,340 |  September 2005 - August 2007 |