Action Points. The European School systems is called to avoid a policy of secondment “at any cost”. Secondment of teachers to the European Schools is welcomed as it bring stability and predictability and offers teachers a fair and competitive compensation for their work, but it should never be at the expense of quality education. Instead: ⮚ Ensure that teacher hiring practices are linked to the qualifications and performance of teachers, rather than driven by purely political imperatives. ⮚ Revise the implementation of the Cost Sharing Agreement so that Member State contribution can be channeled to the areas where it is actually needed. ⮚ Revise the Cost Sharing Agreement to ensure that countries, i.e. like Ireland, which provide native teachers in high demand due to the school curriculum and profile are adequately compensated for seconding native speaking teachers beyond their obligation, ⮚ Rethink more broadly about how English may be taught to students across the system while guaranteeing a high level of teaching in the English section following the withdrawal of the UK from the European Schools system. Reference
Action Points. Games should be designed to be meaningful, relevant and pleasurable for the DOREMI target audience to maximise intrinsic motivation. Chosen gamification tools should be meaningful, relevant and pleasurable for the DOREMI target audience to induce intrinsic motivation. Games and gamification should be designed to maximise intrinsic motivation, using increasing challenges, pitched at an appropriate level for DOREMI target users in order to create a state of Flow. Rewards (e.g. points, badges, encouragement) should be varied, some occurring on a fixed basis, others offering variable ratio, variable schedule reinforcement. DOREMI intervention participants should be adequately trained in the use of the DOREMI system in order to maximise self-efficacy for DOREMI activities and subsequent engagement with the DOREMI intervention.
Action Points. Ensure all employees are provided with a written statement of their terms and conditions within 2 months of their start date. • Ensure part time and fixed term workers are treated no less favourably than your full time workers. • Make offers of employment conditional upon entitlement to work in the UK and receipt of references deemed to be satisfactory.
Action Points. COMMUNICATION ▪ Develop a communications strategy for information between the voluntary and community sector and the Council, identifying information that needs to be made available to voluntary and community sector organisations and effective methods of providing information e.g. list of Council meetings to be circulated via IVAC, information to be placed on Council website, etc. ▪ Produce a Briefing Paper for voluntary and community organisations on new Local Government structures and how voluntary and community organisations can influence them. ▪ Produce information about the nature, range and work of the voluntary and community sector. ▪ Develop an induction programme or seminars at which new employees within the Council or voluntary and community organisations can gain information and understanding. ▪ Create additional opportunities for Council members and officers and representatives of voluntary and community organisations to meet and address issues of concern. ACTION POINTS - PARTNERSHIP ▪ Provide training on new partnership structures. ▪ Map existing formal partnerships between the Council and the voluntary and community sector. ▪ Jointly develop benchmarks for community involvement in partnership work. ▪ Pilot methods of supporting voluntary and community sector representatives and evaluate these methods. ▪ Provide training for Council officers and members and for voluntary and community sector on effective partnership working.
