This document outlines the schedule for an Erasmus+ training event in Almeria, Spain from March 19-23, 2018 on the Persona Dolls methodology. The training focused on analyzing Persona Dolls activities, introducing the methodology to train new trainers, discussing social and behavioral issues in each country, teaching differences and tolerance, developing Persona Dolls training materials, and conducting practical classroom activities with dolls. Participants worked in teams to contribute chapters on their countries' issues to a teacher handbook, developed presentation slides, and created evaluation questionnaires to improve training programs in each country.

1. Erasmus + training event in Spain,
Almeria, 19.03.2018 – 23.03.2018
Monday, 19.03
 Workshop: analyzing Persona Dolls activites, conduction of a form for analyzing.
 Workshop: Introduction for training to be become Persona Dolls methodology trainers –
conduction of written training plan (content, structure)
 Work in teams: every countries main social and behaviour problems with children,
conducting a list of every countries main problems what will be described in Persona
Dolls teachers handbook. Presentation of main social and behaviour problems.
Conducting chapters about every countries main social and behaviour problems with
children what will be added to Persona Dolls teachers handbook – presentation from
every team.
Tuesday, 20.03
 Teaching differences, awareness about differences, increasing tolerance
 Workshop: teaching differences to children in every partner country (activities,
methodologies, curriculum). Differences and similarities.
 Environment to support teaching differences and tolerance.
 Different methodologies to teach children social skills and values as an example from
Spanish partners institution C.E.I.P. Gines Morata
Wednesday, 21.03
 Persona Dolls methodology trainers training: how to build up teachers training?
 Conduction of content and structure of training
1. Bullying and aggressive behaviour of children
2. Persona Dolls methodology introduction, principles, objectives
3. Creating personas to dolls. Workshop: conducting a variety of doll personas to
introduce during training
4. Activities with dolls – principles, examples of a variety of different stories, first
meeting with the dolls, probleem solveing with Persona Dolls.
5. How to build up the persona dolls activity – structure.
6. Handleing differences. Workshop: every countries experience.
7. Workshop: conducting pages about teachimg differences, values, valuing children
individuality.

2.  Conduction of teacher inquiring questions to
children to rehearse children probleem solveing.
 Work in teams: conducting Persona Dolls training materials – presentation slides for
training.
 Introduction with classrooms and learning environment. Introduction of environment to
support special needed children. Classroom and activities for special needed children.
Practical experiences of working with special needed children.
Thursday, 22.03
 Persona Dolls methodology trainers training continues.
 Workshop: practical part of training. Creating a structure of practical activities during
teachers training: work in teams (conducting personas, conducting probleem solveing
activities, activity with dolls with children as an example – see, learn, analyze).
 Presentation of Persona Dolls activities with children in classroom.
 Practical activity: seeing real Persona Dolls activity with special needed children in
classroom with a doll with special need.
Friday, 23.03
 Conducting work plan for Persona Dolls network in Europe.
 Conducting a training plan.
 Workshop: training materials (Persona Dolls teachers handbook, DVD), how to use them
during training sessions.
 Workshop: every countries training materials – overview, improvement, finnishing.
 Work in teams: conducting questionnaires about Persona Dolls to children, teachers and
parents. Evaluation.
 Work in teams: Values education added to curriculum, presentation of values education
added to curriculum as example from Estonia team. Creating a list of expected skills in
every age stage about teaching values, values education.