This document provides information about an online training course for teachers on intercultural mentoring. The course will take place from January to May 2018 and provide a certificate upon completion. It aims to equip educators with tools to address diversity and support students at risk of early school leaving. The training consists of 5 modules that correspond to themes covered in mentoring sessions between students, focusing on wellbeing, language skills, culture, study skills, and interests.

1. "The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not
constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors,
and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the
information contained therein." Project Number: 2016-1-ES01-KA201-025145
Training course for teachers

2. E-EVALINTO Project
• Evaluation environment for fostering intercultural mentoring tools and practices
at school
• E-EVALINTO is a European-wide project aimed at providing a prevention and
early intervention strategy in order to reduce the gap between migrant and
non-migrant students in relation to early school leaving
• A prevention and early intervention strategy based on peer mentoring actions
in order to reduce early school leaving in young students with migrant
background
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3. Important information
Training Programme
• Place: Online through the GRIAL Research Group virtual campus
• Dates: 29 January to 26 May 2018
• Certification: A certificate of in-service training (35 hours) certified by the
University of Salamanca (Spain), which - at least in Spain - is nationally
recognized for the teaching career
• Main objective: This training programme will equip you, as educators, with tools
to deal with diversity and to apply them at school in order to work effectively
with pupils at risk
• Language: English, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Greek
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4. Contents
• There are five modules in this
training programme
• These modules correspond with the
five themes on which lessons or
activities between mentors and
mentees are based
1. Personal Wellbeing / Social Skills
2. Language / Communication Skills
3. My Culture, Your Culture
4. Study skills
5. Interests and hobbies
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Course guides and materials:
• http://guiasdidacticas.grial.eu/evalintocourseweb/ (English)
• http://guiasdidacticas.grial.eu/evalintocoursewebES/ (Spanish)
• http://guiasdidacticas.grial.eu/evalintocoursewebGR/ (Greek)
• http://guiasdidacticas.grial.eu/evalintocoursewebPL/ (Polish)
• http://guiasdidacticas.grial.eu/evalintocoursewebIT/ (Italian)

5. Organization
• First phase:
• between 15 to 30 days
• teacher training and the organization of the groups of mentors / mentees
• Second phase:
• Pilot phase
• Application with the students
• More flexible. Each school will have the opportunity to fix its calendar in
order to finish without any doubt before they are busy with the closing of
the school year
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6. Alicia García-Holgado
University of Salamanca, Spain
aliciagh@usal.es
@aliciagh_
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