The training unit (TU), developed in the Pestalozzi Programme in the Education for the prevention of violence at schools (VIO) module, consists of four activities, including an assessment session for in-service training.
The TU is implemented through six interactive workshops. The first defines prevention and the importance of prevention in relation to intervention, which leads to the analysis of the teacher's classes on three different levels: resources, challenges and convivencia in the future. The third workshop provides an answer to challenges and problems in the classroom that teachers encounter by defining positive discipline and establishing affirmative rules, by detecting skills and topics for the prevention of violence. The fifth workshop inspires teachers to cooperate with parents to gain more effective results in violence prevention and develop convivencia. Finally, participants are asked to think about the knowledge and skills needed for convivencia and create an action plan for follow-up activities in the school.
To cite this resource: Kovačević, S. (2012). Use Challenge to Change for Convivencia. In Council of Europe Pestalozzi Programme Training Units.
