SPEL is one of the partners of the European Project TAC – Teaching AD(H)D Children, which will be implemented from 2022 to 2024. The partnership includes Germany, Bulgaria, Austria, Ireland, and Portugal partners.
The TAC project consists of the European teaching methods’ consideration and their adaptation, or lack of it, to the accommodation of children who present AD(H)D (attention deficit (and hyperactivity) disorder) like behaviours.
This project established the following objectives:
– Train teachers and in-training teachers on the causes, diagnosis nature of AD(H)D students and their performance;
– Avoid premature diagnoses and drug treatment;
– Provide the educators with enough knowledge about the correct way of coping with an AD(H)D student and the capability of offering the right help most adequately;
– Adapt the curriculum to every student and not the opposite;
– Make public schools (primary and secondary schools) more accessible so students with AD(H)D;
– Prevent the school dropout and the left of the teachers (due to the lack of motivation to teach);
– Make affordable all the support children with AD(H)D need by evolving the resources public schools already have, helping those children’s learning process and reducing the parent’s financial burden from private schools/institutions;
– Reduce the stress and burnout rate of teachers and school aides.
The project will achieve the following results:
– Creation of a special curriculum so that teachers (and educators) can deal with children with AD(H)D in a regular class;
– Practice opportunities for teachers (and in-training teachers) based on three principal folders:
* In-personal training of the needed skills to deal with children with AD(H)D (worth 6 ETCs);
* Online training, without in-person practice, to those that cannot be present in person;
* Writing documents to teachers (and educators) who haven’t had TAC practice yet needs a fast answer.–
– Documenting the pilot study of, at least, 40 teachers together with the report assessment;
– Writing a scientific paper;
– Results associated with the partner’s collaboration and its report to the National Agency.