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INTEGRATIVE PATHWAYS FOR STUDENTS WITH SOCIAL, EDU..
INTEGRATIVE PATHWAYS FOR STUDENTS WITH SOCIAL, EDUCATIONAL ANDMOTIVATIONAL NEEDS
Start date: Sep 1, 2016,
End date: Aug 31, 2018
PROJECT
FINISHED
Schools are more and more attended by students that, sometimes, mirror the outside society. The lack of control, the lack of self confidence, the unemployment, the corruption all around the society, the lack of values can easily be found in young people that often are discouraged, after the frequent in-success at school, leave it forever. These students, often become a serious problem for teachers who have courses with nearly 30 students per class, for this reason no sufficient time to take care of the most discomforted and unmotivated ones, not talking about the disabled ones. This project aims to find the right strategies, educational tools, methodologies to deal with those students in order to prevent their early school leaving.The project has 8 partners: Italy- Naples- the coordinator, Catania - Italy, Sibiu - Romania, Galati - Romania, Turkey, Bulgaria, Malta and Lithuania. There will be 4 Transnational Meetings organized in M1 Italy (Naples), M2 Italy (Catania), M3 Malta and M4 Sibiu (Romania) and 3 Project activities: C1 - a students exchange in Odemis, Turkey, C2 - a students exchange in Kazanlak, Bulgaria and C3 - a short staff training session in Lithuania. There will also be organized an international conference during the meeting in Catania, dealing with :"Different kinds of disorders as a result of the questionnaires and how to deal with them" with specialists, teachers and media invited. A brochure with all the papers presented and all the studies will be issued with ISBN. However, a seminar will take place in Malta on "Best practices to be used for avoiding students' dropout" and on the good practice of Resource Centres and a brochure on the tools used to have better educational results for the disabled will be issued with ISBN. What is more, a Methodological Guide"OVERCOMING THE RISKS OF EARLY SCHOOL LEAVERS AND IMPROVING BASIC SKILLS" will be created, will be translated and printed by each partner in their national language and serve as a didactic resource consisting of guidelines /integrative pathways of overcoming the risks of early school leavers and improving the basic skills of those students. Also, the tangible results contain: questionnaires and the grids of evaluation, with their interpretation, all results collected in a booklet; the web site of the project, the blog, the 2 newsletters with the description of the most impressive activities carried out during the 2 years of the project, the conference brochure with the papers and studies presented, for which Catania will get an ISBN,a booklet collecting the results of the students exchanges, stressed on Best practices for integrating these students with disabilities, for which Romania will get an ISBN, statistics done on the students' results and progress, observation grids, an educational video with practical ways of work with the students in need, a portfolio to be filled by students for a self evaluation, English courses for the students participating in the mobilities, dance, sports or handmade manufacturing clubs in schools, the logo of the project, Europass Language Passport for students, flyers and leaflets, a Facebook project group.Teachers and experts in inclusion will take part in this project to:- create integrative pathways;- motivate the families to take active part in the educative pathways;- consolidate the educational actions of each teacher with the help of specialized persons.Curricular and extracurricular activities will be carried out to improve general skills, self control and self confidence, such as:group work with a group leader, work in pairs, peer learning and workshops on handmade manufacturing, cooking, sports events.During all these activities students will be systematically observed and monitored by teachers and experts in different situations.Expected results and long term benefits will be:- increase students' self confidence and self control and their competences in foreign languages;- increase opportunities for professional development;- increase motivation and satisfaction in their school work.Taking into consideration that our target group is composed of students with social, educational and motivational needs, our first aim will be to lead them towards the freedom from these gaps. We want to increase quality of education and training in all the areas involved in the project, for disadvantaged students and to align education to the needs of the disadvantaged students, too.Dissemination will be realized by: press articles, TV interviews, booklets, brochures, conference, seminar, Project corners with exhibition in each school, project website, blog, newsletters, flyers, leaflets during local meetings, regional meetings, local partnerships, Facebook group, Youtube etc.Best practice share among partner schools will be beneficial for the students with different needs and will serve the purpose of this project.