/ Town Hall
Wednesday 19th December 2018
THE CALVIÀ CIUTAT TEI PROGRAM RECEIVES THE AWARD OF THE IV MUNICIPAL GOOD PRACTICE CONTEST CALLED BY THE FEMP IN COLLABORATION WITH THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING
The Peer Tutoring programme to prevent bullying is implemented in all schools in Calvià
The Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) has awarded the municipal programme for the prevention of bullying Calvià Ciutat TEI (Peer Tutoring) one of the seven prizes of the IV Good Municipal Practices Contest in the category of prevention and intervention of school bullying in municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants.
Calvià Ciutat TEI is a programme of institutional coexistence that involves the entire educational community with an aim to work for an inclusive school with zero tolerance towards violence. From the 2017-2018 academic year, Calvià is part of the municipalities network that implements the TEI, to which all the educational centres of the municipality have joined, based on the emotional tutoring amongst equals in which respect, empathy and commitment are the basic pillars of development in the centres.
The operation of this programme is as follows: in Secondary, third-year students are emotional tutors of first-year students; in Primary, the fifth-year students are tutors to those third-year students, and in Pre-education, 5 year-students tutor emotionally those of 3 years. In this way, the conflict in the centres diminishes as the older students recognise themselves as a model and act as such, in the same way that they are concerned with putting themselves in the situation of the youngest ones, helping them to integrate into the centre, into the new dynamics and to relate correctly with the rest of the students.
At the awards ceremony, both the General Director of Organisation and Resources of the FEMP, María Eugenia Simarro, and the Deputy Assistant Director-General of Territorial Cooperation of the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, Santiago Sánchez, highlighted that the award-winning programmes shows the close collaboration of the respective local governments with the educational centres of each municipality, as well as the involvement and coordination of the different areas or municipal departments related to the school environment. The Councillor for Citizen Participation and Youth, Olga Granados, was the one in charge of receiving the recognition for Calvià.
