TIMSIS

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TIMSIS

• teacher in-service training materialconcerning
  pupils with serious and chronic illnessesin both
  regular and hospital schools

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Project History

• Primary project Comenius IHospital schools in
  Genova Stuttgart Vienna
• Ludwigsburg University of Education
• Second project Comenius II.1
• long phase of planningand search for partners
• We lost Vienna, Genova, Granada, but we found
  Brnó, Helsinki,Mosdos, Oslo and Samara

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Project History

• Application March 2004
• Accepted August 2004
• Official Start October 2004
• Kick-off MeetingNovember 2004
• End of fundingSeptember 2007

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Project Partner

• In each partner country a hospital school and a
  university form a team
• with two exceptions Mosdos (Hungary) and Samara
  (Russia)
• possible associated new partnerUniversity of
  Education inBaja (Hungary)

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Justification

• Situation of the sick child and her or his
  family
• multifold disadvantages of sick children
• physical and psychic stress
• removal from home
• family and financial worries
• removal from class
• loss of social contact to peers
• reduced period of instruction
• general impairment of education
• need of re-integration
• Pupils who, because of long or repeated periods
  of absence or the stress resulting from the
  illness, have a special need for support

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Justification

• A lot is being done to ease the situation of the
  sick child in hospital and in hospital schools.
• However, there are shorter periods of
  hospitalisation.

• Things might look different when it comes to
  re-integration into their homes and home schools

• What about the understanding of the class mates?
• Do teachers in the home schools know how to
  handle the situation?
• Do teachers of regular schools have at least
  minimal knowledge about the disease and about the
  social and psychological situation the sick child
  is in?
• Have they at all been trained to cope
  appropriately with the situation?

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Justification

• Since the basic situation cannot be avoided
• all steps should be undertaken to ensure a
  minimum of friction and conflict on reintegration
  in the school class
• it becomes necessary to compensate as far as
  possible for the obvious disadvantages
• This group of pupils tends to be small in number
  and therefore generally represents individual
  cases within the school.
• Some teachers might never have had a chronically
  or severely sick child in one of their classes.
• However for reasons of equality of treatment and
  equality of chance this small group should not be
  neglected.

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Target groups

• Main target group teachers of regular schools
• Secondary target group teachers of hospital
  schools
• Parents and families of affected children and
  adolescents, and the parents of non-affected
  children and adolescents
• Indirect target group(chronically) sick
  children

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Overall Aims

• Primarily focussing on teachers in regular
  schools it is the aim of the project
• to increase the teachers professional competence
  in order to ensure a minimum of friction and
  conflict on reintegration in the school class
• to offer teachers of regular schools quick and
  comprehensive information on specific illnesses
  their pupils might suffer from
• to help teachers of regular schools to consider
  the relevant pedagogic and psychological aspects
• to improve the necessary co-operation between
  regular schools and hospital- schools
• to increase the teachers competence in dealing
  with sick pupils

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Specific Aims

• The overall aims shall be attained by
• Development of material for information,
  continued training and teaching, in order to meet
  the training requirements of teachers regarding
  supervision, counselling and teaching of these
  pupils with special pedagogic needs
• There will be two sets of disease oriented
  material (example of student work on dialysis)
• Development of a Virtual clinic for the use of
  teachers in class as well as for children

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Where you find us

• Homepage
• use the following adress
• www.ph-ludwigsburg.de/timsis
• orsearch for Timsis in Google
• If you want to contact us
• timsis_at_ph-ludwigsburg.de

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