Plano de Atividade
FRIENDS Kick-Off-Meeting, Città di Castello – Italy
Preparation for the implementation in schools
Pre-test and training of school staff: administrators and teachers
Training the teachers in the Quiet Time/TM programme.
Parents’ information sessions
Pre-test and training of students
Learning communities
Seminars and Meetings
Presenting project results in relevant events at local and regional level and organizing workshops for interested stakeholders in each partner country.
Post-test of school staff: administrators and teachers
Post-test of students
Students ‘delayed’ start group
1 Study visit at Maharishi free school in UK
Final assessment of the schools’ environment
Empirical data collection and overall conclusions
(a) Training of administrators, teachers and staff (e.g. anxiety and job satisfaction)
(b) Training of the students (results of both experimental and control group),
(c) Assessment and monitoring of the overall schools’ environment
Policy Making Framework and recommendations for the Quiet Time/TM programme
FRIENDS final conference in Brussels
Project sustainability: the project continues...
- TM teachers participating in the project are available for new training, continuous follow-up and additional instructions for the students and staff in the schools
- Teacher training centers offers TM accreditation for school teachers in order to become Transcendental Meditation teachers
- Project partners maintain and update their channels of dissemination such as website, Facebook page and YouTube channel in English, Portuguese, Dutch, French, Spanish and Italian for the exploitation of FRIENDS results in other contexts
- Local learning communities involving parents, schools and policy makers at different territorial level foster the scaling up of the programme and engagement of new schools
- TM teaching centres provide on-going assistance and continuous support to promote the expansion of the project on a wider European scale
FRIENDS Kick-Off-Meeting, Città di Castello – Italy
Preparation for the implementation in schools
Pre-test and training of school staff: administrators and teachers
Training the teachers in the Quiet Time/TM programme.
Parents’ information sessions
Pre-test and training of students
Learning communities
Seminars and Meetings
Presenting project results in relevant events at local and regional level and organizing workshops for interested stakeholders in each partner country.
Post-test of school staff: administrators and teachers
Post-test of students
Students ‘delayed’ start group
1 Study visit at Maharishi free school in UK
Final assessment of the schools’ environment
Empirical data collection and overall conclusions
(a) Training of administrators, teachers and staff (e.g. anxiety and job satisfaction)
(b) Training of the students (results of both experimental and control group),
(c) Assessment and monitoring of the overall schools’ environment
Policy Making Framework and recommendations for the Quiet Time/TM programme
FRIENDS final conference in Brussels
Project sustainability: the project continues...
- TM teachers participating in the project are available for new training, continuous follow-up and additional instructions for the students and staff in the schools
- Teacher training centers offers TM accreditation for school teachers in order to become Transcendental Meditation teachers
- Project partners maintain and update their channels of dissemination such as website, Facebook page and YouTube channel in English, Portuguese, Dutch, French, Spanish and Italian for the exploitation of FRIENDS results in other contexts
- Local learning communities involving parents, schools and policy makers at different territorial level foster the scaling up of the programme and engagement of new schools
- TM teaching centres provide on-going assistance and continuous support to promote the expansion of the project on a wider European scale