«Nightingale» – Mentoring Project
Mutual benefit for future teachers and primary school children
The Nightingale mentoring project benefits children from socio-economically disadvantaged, migrantised or in other ways burdened households and represents a mutual benefit for both tandem partners: the future teachers on the one hand, and the primary school children who accompany them in their free time on the other. In addition to the seven-moth mentoring period, the participants take part in three celebrations (of which they themselves organize one) where children and mentors come together as a group and thus mark the beginning, middle and end of the project.
Coached by an expert of the PH Zug, the students take a resource-oriented approach, discover their strengths and areas of interest together with the child and develop them further in a targeted manner. In this way, the children get to know new and meaningful leisure activities for them and receive a positive role model from the mentors. The students, for their part, get to know the mentee's world, reflect on and professionalize their way of approaching differences and social inequalities. They actively shape the relationship with their mentee and practice communicating with the child and parents. Thus, both sides give each other an insight into their respective life worlds and enable each other to broaden their perspectives – and grow as a person. In this way, the project contributes to improving educational opportunities through lived experience and relationship in a unique 1:1 setting.
Nightingale is an international project that is anchored in numerous European and some non-European countries and has its origins in Malmö, Sweden. It has been held in Zug since 2007. >>Learn more about the international network...
The school building partner of the Zug University of Education is the Guthirt School of the Zug City Schools. The project is currently supported by the cantonal integration programme KIP.
The project also repeatedly finds a great echo in the media: for example, in a >> summer series on Tele 1 or in the >>print media.