High
School Drop Outs: 'One is Too Many'
Превенция
на отпадането от училище
PROJECT
SUMMARY:
Early school leaving is
a multi-faceted and complex problem caused by a cumulative process of
disengagement. It is a result of personal, social, economic, education or
family-related reasons. Schools play an important role in addressing ESL but
they cannot and should not work in isolation. Reducing ESL can help towards the
integration of young people into the labour market, and contribute to breaking
the cycle of deprivation that leads to the social exclusion of too many young
people.
Reducing the average European rate of
early school leavers to less than 10% by 2020
is one of the education headline targets of the Europe 2020 Strategy.
Investment in the educational achievement of young people is essential for the
employment prospects of every young person.
In this Project High Schools from all over
Europe prepared a strategic partnership and
they will co operate to tackle this problem at grass roots level:
by analyzing the problem and improving education atmosphere in term of; social activities, student
teacher ,student school ,students society, student-parent, parent-school
relations.
The main objective of this project is to
find new methods for increasing motivation and creating more supportive school
environments to decrease the number of student dropouts.
Project activities will include the
exchange of the information, sharing and analyzing best-practice models;
comparing them and adapting them to each partner’s own activities and
environment .Our project activities are aimed to reduce ESL by establishing
conditions for successful learning for all the students. Students should feel comfortable and supported, feel
ownership of their own learning and can engage in the life of their school
community. This is important both for the emotional, social and educational development
of the pupil and for the overall governance of the institution. As a condition
of successful learning, teachers need to strengthen their role as facilitators
of learning. They need autonomy, time, and space for innovation, teamwork,
feedback, self-reflection and evaluation. They need access to enhanced
opportunities for continued professional development.
We mostly targeted students with fewer
opportunities in order to provide them with the missing opportunities they
haven’t acquired by educational system so far. So our target group is who will
be detected as being in danger of drop out. We also include parents of the
students under the risk of drop out and teachers who need guidance about
methods to deal with the students who has drop out risk as target group.
In long term we aimed to disseminate the
project all the related people and organization who has a role in students
'educational and social life. They are; teachers, families, peers, other
organizations leading the same type of activity, local schools in each partner
school’s area, local authorities, European authorities by the help of European
partners, public, wider life learning community, decision-makers at local,
regional, national and European level. We believe that our project results will
have long term effects on economy and society with the help of dissemination
activities.
COUNTRIES and SCHOOLS:
Coordinator: Turkey (Kocaeli)
Bulgaria (Sofia);It
is a general state school located in the suburbs of the capital. Drop out rate
in Bulgaria is 12,5(EUROSTAT-LFS/2012) They have a local project called
"PREVENT - Involving parents in prevention of early school leaving",
part of the EU program for sustainable urban development
(http://urbact.eu/en/projects/active-inclusion/prevent/homepage/). For 18
months some teachers have been working on the issue and exchanging good practices
with schools and institutions from other European cities to prevent students
drop out from school.They are experienced in e twinning projects, so they will
be responsible for our project e twinning page.
United Kingdom (London):
It is local vocational training high school which has low progression rates
.Drop out rate in U.K is 13, 5 (EUROSTAT-LFS/2012)They have specific reviewing
and monitoring systems of students’ progress. They have experience about it and
as a good practice they will share their activities (www.pixl.org.uk) Their
project team consist of different qualified teachers.
Italy (Lecce):
It is a high school which operates in a complex and varied socioeconomic and
cultural context .Drop out rate in Italy is 17.6 (EUROSTAT-LFS/2012)
They have a regional project: “ Diritti a Scuola” an
action aiming at qualifying the school system, at
preventing early school leaving. They also have another
national project P.O.N. C1 a national operative programme for the disadvantaged
regions. They are also experienced about the Comenius projects.
Cyprus (Polis Chrysochous);
It is a public Lyceum and Technical school .Drop out rate in Cyprus is 11, 4
(EUROSTAT-LFS/2012). They have prepared some programs at school for dealing
with drop out problem. They have a support program for students with special
skills, The school has a special of support for student, given by professional
psychologist.They also have experiences about LLP Projects.
Lithuania (Kaunas);
It is a high school in Kaunas. Lithuania has 6, 5 drop out rate
(EUROSTAT-LFS/2012) which is the lowest and under the Europe 2020 target rate
in our partnership. The reason to take this school as partner is, they are
really good example for us how to create a good atmosphere at school. They say
that they have created a well developed methodology which helps them to
minimize behavioral problems and school drop out, improve school atmosphere.
Norway (Oslo):
it is a vocational and upper secondary school . Norway has14,8 drop out rate
(EUROSTAT-LFS/2012). They have a local system for dealing with drop out problem
:Oppfølgingstjenesten(. Following students that have dropped out). They also
have a department of all the counselors, follow-up service (OT). This
department will be in charge of this project. They have an experienced staff
about local and international projects.
Portugal (Vila Verde) ;
It is a vocational high school. Portugal
has 20, 8 drop out rate (EUROSTAT-LFS/2012).which is one of the highest level
in our partnership. So there are a lot of national Projects in Portugal. They
have a Psychology and Guidance Service, functioning since 2002, has solved
several extreme dropout risky cases with success.
Greece – Crete (;Chania)
It is the one which hasn’t joined any international project before. It is a
General Lyceum . Greece has 11, 4 drop out rate (EUROSTAT-LFS/2012).They have
high academic level because they apply an extra tutoring program they will be good practice about the
increasing success activities.
Latvia (Aluksne) Aluksne is a secondary school .Latvia has 10,5 drop
out rate (EUROSTAT-LFS/2012). They have students who has difficulties in learning and students rather
drop out instead of solving situation. So they applied different activities to
prevent drop out .They have a “Shadow
Day”programme which will be good practice for us in Career orientation
activities. They have innovative school staff.
ACTIVITIES:
STUDENTS, TEACHERS and PARENTS
A1: Creating project
team and tools (Web site/twinspace/facebook ) Each school will create an
Erasmus club.
A2: Online Logo, poster
, motto ,short film competition. Logo competition. poster/motto/logo/ and short
film (The students make a short film based on the life of a drop-out student.
They direct, write a script and perform in it themselves, using the experience
they acquired from the interviews of drop-out students) Votes for the best film
A3:Career Planing Organisation - seminars and workshops
by professionals, counselors, graduate students, and visits to further
education institutions of the area.
A4: Seminars to
teachers to deal with drop out problems, seminars to students about effective
study methods, Practical students' activities with implementing results of
effective study methods, Workshops with students and with their families.
A5:European Parliament
- preparation of a Eu Parliament meeting where each country presents the
educational problems and suggests educational reforms. Each partner school will
create their own parliament and students will come together and discuss about
the educational problems in their country and they will vote for the best
reformative measures.The law will be published.
A6:After school
activities with family. Each partner school will organize social after school
activities for the students
7:Sport Activities - Sport
is thought to be one of the ways of creating an equal environment and a way of
preventing the dropping out of those students. Tournaments
A8: Best photo of the
Project – uploaded on a common platform.
An online voting system and winner photo will be the cover for the project
catalogue.
A9: Preparing Final
Works
A10:Dissemination Activities
Students
Mobilities
We want to find new
methods for increasing motivation and creating more supportive school
environments to decrease the number of student dropouts; For increasing education atmosphere learning
and teaching activities will be our main tools. We will try to change
perception of the students by using 'short term student mobility activities.
One of the other most
important objectives in our project is creating communication with other
countries and understand their culture and exchange the ideas. For achieving
this goal effective use of language is really important and by the help of
language trainings for both students and school staff we will improve our
students’ communication abilities and their language competence
We will give responsibilities
to these students during the project and if they show an improvement in their
attainment and academic performance they will be awarded with different social
activities, mobilities and future opportunities. We will use mobilities as a
tool to motivate our students and increase their skills and self esteem. During
the project they will work in more workshops about different topics, the
methodology of peer learning and promoting formal and non-formal education . We
will train them about successful study methods. We will facilitate the learners
with disadvantaged backgrounds and fewer opportunities and will make them
participate in transnational projects.
Moreover they will have opportunities to see that they
are not alone, there are a lot of students who have the same difficulties and
concerns all around the Europe.
C1: An Outing as
a tool for motivation to improve attendance and academic success of the risk
group students.
Summary : Students are
asked to improve their academic results. Each student gets a report with the
marks obtained in the first term and a goal qualification established by the
educational team. The educational team takes into account the capacities and
abilities of each students so the goal qualification is different for each of
them. During the process they get help from a teacher who monitors their
performance. At the end of the school year those students who achieve the mark
established by the team participate in a workshop in Italy and join a workshop with other students who
have showed a similar success and they will prepare a presentation about this
process. When they come back they will give a seminar to the students who has
low level academic success and under the risk of drop out by using the
presentations they have prepared and
they will share their experiences.
C3: European
Parliament:
Summary: Each school
will make necessary preparation of a Eu Parliament meeting where each country
presents the educational problems and suggests educational reforms. Each
partner school will create their own parliament and students will come together
and discuss about the educational problems in their country and they will vote
for the best reformative measures.The students who got the most vote will join
the short term mobility activity and they will join the big European parliament
in Cyprus. They will present their reforms and join international voting. And
the best reforms will be voted, approved and signed
The law will be
published on website,twinspace,facebook page.
C5.Citizenship and arts
workshops.
Expected results
- Creation of a European association/
society/club
-EUROPEAN PERFORMANCE “ONE IS TOO MANY” . An
EVENT where students in groups will perform or exhibit and be voted for by a jury made of students
and teachers and local people.
- A collaborative students' blog called ONE
IS TOO MANY
- A DVD
Summary:
We will have two
workshops.
We will use EUROPASS
mobility tool for the students who join
the mobilities,each partner school will
apply the certification institute on behalf of their students.
MOBILITIES
- PLAN
|
|
Meeting
|
Date
|
Country
|
2014/2015
|
Meeting 1
|
October
2014
|
TURKEY-
teachers
|
2014/2015
|
Short term student mobility
|
April 2015
|
ITALY
Students and teachers
|
2014/2015
|
Meeting
2
|
May 2015
|
ENGLAND-
teachers
|
2015/2016
|
Meeting 3
|
October
2015
|
LITHUANIA-
teachers
|
2015/2016
|
Short term student mobility
|
March 2016
|
CYPRUS –students and teachers
|
2015/2016
|
Meeting
4
|
May
2016
|
BULGARIA-
teachers
|
2016/2017
|
Meeting
5
|
October
2016
|
NORWAY
- teachers
|
2016/2017
|
Short
term student mobility
|
March
or April 2017
|
PORTUGAL – students and teachers
|
2016/2017
|
Meeting
6
|
May
2017
|
GREECE
- teachers
|
В периода 2014 – 2017
учебна година
училището участва в международния европейски проект „Превенция на отпадането от училище: ТИ си
важен” по програма Еразъм + с ученици от езиковите
паралелки под ръководството на Цветелена Таралова, главен учител по английски език.
Главната цел на проекта е прилагане на нови
методи за повишаване на мотивацията и създаване на по-добра учебна среда, което
ще доведе до намаляване на учениците, отпадащи от училище.
Проектните дейности включват обмен на
информация, споделяне и анализ на добри практики, както и адаптирането и
прилагането им във всяко училище-участник в проекта.
През следващите три учебни години Клуб
„Еразъм +” към 88. СОУ ще реализира програма, чрез която да съдейства за
превръщане на училището в привлекателно за учениците пространство на
интелектуална и артистична изява. Основна цел на мероприятията по проекта е да
провокират и мотивират творческата и културно-обществената активност на
учениците. За постигането на тази цел са предвидени следните дейности:
ü
Активиране
на творческата самоинициатива и артистичната изява: танцов спектакъл,
занимания по актьорско майсторство, ролеви игри, фотография;
ü
Провокиране
на гражданското самосъзнание и обществено-политическата ангажираност:
ученически съвет, дебати, доброволчески акции и благотворителност (с активното участие на
родители);
ü
Провокиране
на интереса към изкуството и към осъзнаване на ролята му в живота и в
професионалната реализация на младите хора: посещение на театрални
постановки, кинопрожекции и концерти, дискусии, семинари, свързани с
професионалната ориентация на учениците;
ü
Активиране
на спортната изява и отношението към природата: спортни състезания, еко
дни в училище и в планината.
В проекта участват 10 държави: Турция, Италия,
Великобритания, Литва, Латвия, Кипър, Норвегия, Португалия, Гърция и България.
