Introduction
The Project
The “KITE fighters: Kids and Teachers Fighting for Inclusion” project aims to assist pedagogues working with young people, with a focus on diversities, to strengthen social inclusion, and promote peer-to-peer communication and team building.
“Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied”
– Barack Obama –
Objectives
To equip teachers with tools to enhance their capability to support students, promoting their mental health/emotional intelligence development;
To enable teachers to use creative and innovative methodologies as symbol work, storytelling, folk tales and other non-formal education approaches when working with disadvantaged students.
Support schools to tackle Early School Leaving (ESL) and disadvantage and to offer quality education, enabling success for all students;
Strengthening social inclusion skills of kids and teachers.
Development of “Kite-fighter toolkit”: this is a collection of different tools, games and exercises, which teachers can use. It will include storytelling, symbol work and folk tales exercises;
Elaboration of a curriculum and trainer’s guide for teacher training to empower teachers to use the Kite-fighter toolkit techniques as well as develop new professional and socio-emotional skills;
Multiplier events and activities as well as delivering a set of mini-training events to empower local teachers and youth workers to use the KITE-fighter toolkit.
Activities
Resources
The Kite Empowerment Platform
Best Practices
Become a Kite Fighters!
News and Events
KITE fighters: narration as a pedagogical and didactic tool against discrimination
How to help teachers use narration as a pedagogical and didactic tool within the classes? How can we help pupils to communicate their life experiences, stimulating personal and collective reflection on sensitive issues such as bullying and discrimination? The new KITE...