How important are mediation skills in the European Union

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How important are mediation skills in the
European Union
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Skills ? ? ?
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Life Skills
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LIFE SKILLS
Learn how to learn Types of learners
Social / Personal skills how we can encourage
pupils to cooperate how we can encourage pupils
to show empathyhow we develop pupils tolerance
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STUDY LEARNING SKILLS
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STUDY SKILLS
WHY?
Metacognition is used in education to describe
the learning process.
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Teaching Basic Skills
The three Rs Reading wRiting aRithmetic
vs
Study Skills instruction
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Study Skills
Right tools training to do a good job at school

• To learn how to learn
• To learn how to study

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STUDY SKILLS include

• organisation skills
• learning habits

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Learning Skills
How to
learn spelling learn
reading learn
vocabulary
learn grammar
practical tips
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LANGUAGE SKILLS
READING
WRITING
LISTENING
SPEAKING
MEDIATION
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What is mediation?
Mediation is a process for handling conflict in
which two or more parties involved in a dispute
meet with a neutral, third party mediator to
discuss the issues and attempt to reach a
voluntary agreement.
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What is the role of the mediator?
The mediator facilitates dialogue between the
parties to help them develop their own
resolution to their issues and concerns.
Agreements reachedare by mutual consent of all
parties.Mediators do not take sides, impose
decisions,or give advice.
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The mediation skills in the European Union

• Economic factors
• Social factors
• Cultural factors

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Common European Framework of References for
languages
The CEF is not a directive. It aims to encourage
those involved in language teaching to reflect on
and, where appropriate, question their current
aims and methods.
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Mediation as a language skill helps learners
develop? social skills ? collaborative skills
? cultural awareness
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In both the receptive and productive modes, the
written and/or oral activities of mediation make
communication possible between persons who are
unable, for whatever reason, to communicate with
each other directly. Translation or
interpretation, a paraphrase, summary or record,
provides for a third party a (re)formulation of a
source text to which this third party does not
have direct access. Mediating language activities
(re)processing an existing text occupy an
important place in the normal linguistic
functioning of our societies.
(Extract from the CEF)
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Mediation as a language skill helps teachers
provide
Global Education
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Oral Mediation
? Speaker B (only Greek)
? Speaker A (only English)
? Speaker C (English and Greek)
Speaker C is the mediator.
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Written Mediation
Document A (in L1)
Document B (in L2)
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Helen Keller, who overcame blindness and deafness
to become a leading social activist in the early
20th century, wrote
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do
everything, but still I can do something.And,
because I cannot do every-thing, I will not
refuse to do the something I can do.