Effect of griffbereitMINI

Effect of griffbereitMINI

Participating parents/families

What do I get from griffbereitMINI?

  • Weekly greef readyMINI-Group
  • Contact/exchange with like-minded people
  • Suggestions for everyday language education with my child
  • Appreciation of my family language(s)
  • If applicable, qualification as a group facilitator

What reinforces/amplifies Griffbereit?

  • Knowledge and competences regarding language education, upbringing, health, etc.
  • Parent-child interaction
  • Self-confidence through focus on own strengths
  • Willingness to engage in dialogue and competence to act in the institution
  • Motivation to strengthen own children (e.g. language)
  • Participation in the social and life of the educational institution
  • Motivation to deepen and share own language skills and competences, e.g. as a parent companion

How does this change our togetherness?

  • Parents/families are integrated into the social life and that of the places of education as well as actively involved
  • Families' potential is recognised - for real participation in society
  • Potentials and opportunities of cultural diversity become visible - for real change
  • Strengthening participation and networking
  • Genuine upbringing and education partnerships between parents/families and institution

 

Participating children

What do I get from griffbereitMINI?

  • Weekly griffbereitMINI Group
  • Contact/interaction with peers
  • Language and developmental impulses
  • Employment/experience with age-appropriate materials

What reinforces/amplifies Griffbereit?

  • Strengthened language skills in the family language(s) and in German
  • General language competence, e.g. larger vocabulary
  • Positive overall development (e.g. emotional, motor etc.)
  • More familiar and intensive parent-child interaction
  • Enjoyment of the material/doing
  • Subsequently, easier transition to the further educational institution or e.g. the Griffbereit programme.
  • Opportunity for successful participation in education

How does this change our togetherness?

  • More equal opportunities for all children in education
  • Social acceptance of multilingualism as a resource and potential for children

 

Leading group facilitators

What do I get from griffbereitMINI?

  • griffbereitMINI-Training, accompaniment and reflection
  • (Multilingual) programme materials
  • Provision of the greef readyMINI-Concept with recommendations for action and ideas/suggestions for practice
  • Independent planning freedom
  • High flexibility within the framework conditions
  • Working and sharing with families and very young children

What reinforces/amplifies Griffbereit

  • Knowledge in the fields of adult education and child development as well as multilingualism and diversity
  • Responsibility and independence as a mediator between family and institution
  • Self-confidence, independence
  • Motivation to expand one's own field of activity or for proactive further training

How does this change our togetherness?

  • First steps into the pedagogical field of work
  • Educational institutions continue to develop - towards more migration-sensitive living, acting and working
    (diversity-oriented)

Pedagogical staff

What do I get from griffbereitMINI?

  • griffbereitMINI-Training, accompaniment and reflection

What reinforces/amplifies griffbereitMINI

  • Guiding Principle "Education and Training Partnership
  • Knowledge and greater sensitivity with regard to diversity-conscious action and multilingualism
  • Motivation to use language education and promotion in a targeted way
  • Less stress, more self-confidence in everyday working life

How does this change our togetherness?

  • New educational concepts emerge: diversity-oriented and promoting multilingualism
  • Education is migration-sensitive, diversity-conscious and multilingual
  • This education becomes the guiding principle of society and leads to an open, diverse society at all levels.

 

Participating educational institution

What do I get from griffbereitMINI?

  • Weekly greef readyMINI-Group
  • Qualified group facilitators
  • Training, accompaniment, reflection
  • Equipping the facility, e.g. with diversity-conscious play materials, books, pictures as well as ideas and suggestions for a language and learning stimulating environment in all languages available to the children.

What reinforces/amplifies griffbereitMINI?

  • Practice-oriented knowledge on diversity-conscious approaches to action and the established implementation thereof
  • Openness to inputs from families with an international history for the day-to-day running of the facility
  • Interaction with parents with international family history
  • Acceptance of parents = "education experts
  • Addressing multilingualism as a potential
  • Better preparation for further education, better educational opportunities for children

How does this change our togetherness?

    • Strengthening the educational partnership with parents/families along the educational chain
    • Educational institutions open up in a migration-sensitive and diversity-oriented way already in the early childhood sector[1]

 

[1] http://publi.lvr.de/publi/PDF/750-Gemeinsam-Verschieden.pdf, p. 9 (as of 04.05.2016).

Development

Multilingual children develop in the same way as monolingual children

Excessive demand

Multilingualism is an opportunity, not an excessive demand

Identity

Language and identity are closely linked

Language blends

Language blends are part of natural communication and identity in multilingual families

Posture

The attitude towards speakers of one language determines how successful the acquisition of another language is.

Factors

Language acquisition is individual and depends on various factors

Standard

Multilingualism is the norm, monolingualism the exception

Support

How can I support language acquisition?