A group of eight members of the SLT from St Nicholas College, including our Head of College Network Ms Josephine Mifsud and Director General People Management Ms Mary Scicluna recently attended the Erasmus+ funded course ‘Inclusive Education for School Leaders: Setting the Vision and Agenda‘ in Florence, Italy. The course focused on helping school leaders acquire the strategic managerial tools necessary to promote inclusion in their schools for the benefit of the whole community. The target audience for the course are school principals and deputies, who want to increase the capacity of their whole staff to bring inclusion in the school’s everyday life.
Participants were also able to analyse a variety of case studies to find out paradigms and strategies (e.g., the Low Arousal Approach) on how to shape an emotionally caring environment in their schools to support both the learners and the staff in adopting behavior that promotes inclusion at all levels.
Apart from St Nicholas College’s HCN (Ms Josephine Mifsud) and DG People Management (Ms Mary Scicluna), the course was also attended by Ms Marianne Cachia, Ms Elizabeth Galea and Mr Robert Saliba (Heads of School); Ms Deborah Montebello and Ms Annemarie Camilleri (Assistant Heads of Schoo) and Ms Amanda Debattista (Project Coordinator). The course also met one of the College’s main aims for our Erasmus+ Accreditation: Inclusion of Migrant Learners in our school community. This mobility was made possible thanks to St Nicholas College Accreditation funds, co-funded by the European Union.
