The Mayor and the Regional Minister for Education attend the meeting with Andrés González Bellido on the TEI (Peer Tutoring) programme that is set to be launched in the school centres of Calvià
The Mayor of Calvià, Alfonso Rodríguez Badal, and the Regional Minister for Education and University, Martí March, attend the meeting with Andrés González Bellido, author of the TEI (Peer Tutoring) programme that wants to be started up in the school centres of Calvià, to prevent bullying.
The TEI Programme is an institutional coexistence programme that involves the entire educational community and aims to improve school integration and work for a non-violent inclusive school. Therefore, it is encouraged that the relationships between equals are as satisfactory as possible, to improve or modify the atmosphere of the centre regarding coexistence, conflict and physical, emotional or psychological violence.
The programme is based on the emotional tutoring between equals where respect, empathy and commitment are the basic pillars of development in the educational centres. In Secondary Education, the students in Year 3 are emotional tutors of those in Year 1; in Primary Education, the students in Year 5 are emotional tutors of those in Year 3; and in Pre-education, 5-year-old children are emotional guardians of the 3-year-old children.
Thus, a link between students-tutors and students-tutored is established. Older students recognise themselves as a model and act as such, as well as they care about putting themselves in the shoes of the little ones, helping them to integrate in the centre, in the new dynamics and to interact correctly with the companions. It is a programme that advocates the empowerment of students who learn to resolve conflicts through dialogue. Thus, the conflict diminishes in the centre and also in the social networks. The IES Calvià received last September the formation in the TEI programme by the hand of its author Andrés González Bellido who began the implementation more than a decade ago, in 2003.
It is a programme developed by three different universities: Barcelona, Alicante and Santiago de Compostela. It is currently applied in more than 500 primary and secondary education schools in the Spanish territory, and this year it will be launched in London, Berlin and in the Spanish educational centres in Morocco. In addition, it begins to be implemented in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Russia. The meeting in Calvià is with all the educational agents involved: management teams, teaching staff of the 11 CEIP and 2 IES, AMIPAS, families, tutor police officers, dinning-room supervisors, extracurricular instructors, etc., where Andrés González Bellido presents the project that wants to be developed for the municipality of Calvià.