Very interesting study bringing confirmation about importance and sense of soft skills:
“Academic learning is usually in the spotlight at school, but teaching elementary-age students “soft” skills like self-control and social skills might help in keeping at-risk kids out of criminal trouble in the future, a study finds.
“Empathy is what makes us aware of the feelings of others and when you’re empathic, you’re much less likely to hurt someone else’s feelings”.
Find out more information.
We are delighted that US First Book has chosen COSIV as one of nine partners around the world to support the development of reading literacy of vulnerable children. Thanks to this, we were able to hand over 900 books from prestigious Czech publishers to children in the Charity of the Czech Republic asylum homes for families in crisis situation. pokračovat
Romano Centro is an Austrian Roma-NGO based in Vienna, which was funded in 1991. Its main working areas are education, combatting antigypsyism, social counselling and providing information about Roma. Ferdinand Koller is working as the head of the educational programs since 2011. pokračovat
“Being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, more diligent and harder-working”
Excelent article about inclusion and life.
You can find and read the whole article here – https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-diversity-makes-us-smarter/?WT.mc_id=SA_FB_ARTC_OSNP
As part of its WEEK FOR INCLUSION 2016, the Czech Expert Society for Inclusive Education has published the following interview online with school principal Zdenka Juklová (age 59), who has led the Velké Hamry Primary School since 2015. Previously she was an educator at the Masaryk Primary School and Business Academy in the town of Tanvald and at the Secondary School of Glassmaking in Železný Brod.