Wednesday 13th September 2017
CALVIÀ T.E.I. MUNICIPALITY: ZERO TOLERANCE WITH VIOLENT BEHAVIOURS
Teachers in all Primary and Pre-education schools and IES of Bendinat and Son Ferrer have been trained to prevent bullying
From this school year (2017/2018), Calvià joins the municipalities that apply the T.E.I. (Peer Tutoring), a programme of institutional coexistence that involves the whole educational community oriented to improve both, school integration and work for an inclusive and non-violent school.
Between 4th and 8th September and under the impetus of Calvià Town Hall, all teachers in the 11 Primary and Pre-education centres of the municipality and those in the IES Bendinat and Son Ferrer (325 in total) have been trained on: bullying (type of maltreatment, causes, consequences, detection strategies, etc.); how to publicise the programme and sensitising the educational community on peer violence, defining the actions that will be carried out by families, teachers and students in cases of bullying.
IES Calvià already developed this training and TEI project on an experimental basis last year, this is why all the public educational centres of the municipality have joined this programme. The rest of the educational community of Calvià will receive their training in November: families, dinning-room instructors, extracurricular activities instructors, professionals of municipal educational programmes such as REIP and CREC, as well as the police tutors of the centre.
The T.E.I. programme is based on the emotional tutoring between equals where respect, empathy and commitment are the basic pillars of development in schools.
In Secondary, students in 3rd Year are emotional tutors of those in 1st Year; in Primary, students in 5th Year are emotional tutors of those in 3rd Year; and in Chidhood Education, 5-year-old students are emotional tutors of those 3-year-old students. This establishes a link between students-tutor and students-tutored. The older students are recognised as a model and act as such, at the same time caring to get in the shoes of the little ones to help them integrate into the centre, to the new dynamics and to relate correctly to the rest of the classmates.
It is a programme that advocates the empowerment of students, who learn to resolve conflicts through dialogue and, thus, conflict decreases in the centre and also in social networks.
Andrés González Bellido, author and coordinator of the TEI programme, began its implementation in schools more than a decade ago. Currently, more than 500 primary and secondary schools throughout Spain, and other countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Russia apply it.