Group 3

1. Group 3 ... and their homework

2. Title of the activity / Titre de l’activité: Socialising by Religion Name / Nom: Camelia Arhip Country / Pays: Romania Type of Institution / Type d’institution: Mihai Eminescu High School Underline the target audience / Indique le public cible: Pre-service/Formation initialeIn-service/Formation continue Date(s): November 5th Number of sessions / Nombre de séances: 2 Number of hours / Nombres d’heures: 6 Number of trainees / Nombre de participants: 29 Trainees’ profile / Profil du public: teachers and educators dealing with langues either as language teachers or as humanities teachers, 2 physics teachers Description of the training situation / Description de la situation de formation: British Coucil seminar

3. Title of the activity / Titre de l’activité: Home, Sweet Home… Name / Nom: Gyulnara Artchyan Country / Pays: Armenia Type of Institution / Type d’institution: Brusov State Linguistic University Underline the target audience / Indique le public cible: Pre-service/Formation initialeIn-service/Formation continue Date(s): November 15 – December 15 Number of sessions / Nombre de séances: 4 Number of hours / Nombres d’heures: 16 Number of trainees / Nombre de participants: 90 Trainees’ profile / Profil du public: 2nd year students of language, conference participants Description of the training situation / Description de la situation de formation: methodology classes, conference workshop

4. Title of the activity / Titre de l’activité: Me and the Group Name / Nom: Piret Kärtner Country / Pays: Estonia Type of Institution / Type d’institution: Tartu University Underline the target audience / Indique le public cible: Pre-service/Formation initiale In-service/Formation continue Date(s): November 23 – December 14 Number of sessions / Nombre de séances: 5,5 Number of hours / Nombres d’heures: 12x45 Number of trainees / Nombre de participants: 51 Trainees’ profile / Profil du public: students of MA studies, future class teachers minoring in a foreign language Description of the training situation / Description de la situation de formation: methodology sessions,

5. Title of the activity / Titre de l’activité: Names Name / Nom: Petr Najvar Country / Pays: the Czech Republic Type of Institution / Type d’institution: Faculty of Educaion, Masaryk University Underline the target audience / Indique le public cible: Pre-service/Formation initiale In-service/Formation continue Date(s): October 13 – December 1 Number of sessions / Nombre de séances: 3 Number of hours / Nombres d’heures: 4 Number of trainees / Nombre de participants: 6 Trainees’ profile / Profil du public: future primary school teachers Description of the training situation / Description de la situation de formation: Practical language sessions

6. Title of the activity / Titre de l’activité: Numbers and Symbols Name / Nom: Ksenia Golubina Country / Pays: Russia Type of Institution / Type d’institution: Moscow State Linguistic Universtiy Underline the target audience / Indique le public cible: Pre-service/Formation initiale In-service/Formation continue Date(s): Number of sessions / Nombre de séances: Number of hours / Nombres d’heures: Number of trainees / Nombre de participants: Trainees’ profile / Profil du public: Description of the training situation / Description de la situation de formation:

7. Presentation and discussion of the revised versions of the materials Everybody in the group presented the „new“ version of the materials and Petr and Nara have brought the „new new“ version.

8. Comments from the group on the activities The group have discussed the „new“ versions of Camelia`s, Piret`s and Petr`s materials. Suggestions for Camelia: exploiting more the teacher`s notes section. Suggestions for Piret: rationale needs to be added, Teacher`s notes need to be expanded as for the methodology. Suggestions for Petr:Teacher`s notes need to be made more explicit. The goals and aims are to be made more explicit. Suggestions for Nara: more explicit links to the dimension are needed, as well as dividing the materials into segments. There are still possibilities of extending the activities in the Teacher`s notes. Review the introductory part, make it shorter. The group have not heard about Ksenia`s piloting, that is why no comments were stated on their behalf.

9. Camelia has piloted her own, Piret`s and Nara`s materials and provided the group with the evaluation sheet. Presentation of piloting and discussion Piret has piloted her own, Petr`s and Camelia`s materials and provided the group with the evaluation sheet. Nara has piloted her own materials and is going to pilot the rest of the team`s materials. She is about to provide the group with the evaluation sheet. Petr has piloted his own materials. He is about to provide the group with the evaluation sheet. The group have no information about Ksenia`s piloting.

10. The feedback for all piloted materials was positive. Evaluation of the activities Hurrah!!!!

11. Difficulties with implementation of plurilingualism and pluriculturalism • socio-political context of the country (e.g. Nationalism,monocultural, ignorant and/or reluctant students, etc) • Time, loaded syllabi, exams • Group size

12. Suggestions for changes in teacher education • developing awareness • being persuasive with education administrators as for the issue (e.g. Countrywide teacher- training programmses related to the issue of pluriculturalism • introducing elective courses , special segments in language teacer education curriculum and pedagogical education in general