Building together to build for yourself…. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Building together to build for yourself….

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

Every year, tens of thousands of pupils leave school from countries within the European Union without a diploma or indeed any qualification…and with all that comes : low self-esteem, human tragedies, risks of social alienation and difficulties in adapting to the workplace.
Mass education does not fulfil its role in entirety: i.e.- that of producing citizens, professionals, honest men and women of the 21st century as Montaigne would have said.
This is a hard fact and an intolerable situation in countries which make up this partnership and in the European Union as a whole.

So, we have to come up with other teaching and educational strategies to bring back those who have dropped out of the system in order that school becomes a welcoming , exciting and particularly formative place for the young adult to tackle the realities of life. Nobody should be left by the wayside without any solution. Without doubt, this is a matter of selecting the appropriate place, in other words, matching child / adolescent with the social organization/educational system.

How can we give individual attention to each pupil and offer adaptive solutions for everyone? The way of life, personalities, socio-cognitive abilities and social –cultural backgrounds are incredibly diverse. If the majority of pupils adapt to studies in general without too much difficulty, a certain number of them will require specially adapted paths to meet their needs.

Through this partnership we wish to share our teaching and educational experience for mutual enrichment and to exchange our best practices in the fight against the school drop-out rate.
The sharing of practices will take into account the problems and challenges expressed by the pupils in difficulty. We will exchange information using the institutional response formats put in place by our respective countries and the context of social and cultural backgrounds . We will outline our practices in terms of professional training, adaptation to the workplace, cognitive and psycho emotional remediation without forgetting project-based learning with proven examples or relevant artistic practices. The entire range of practices will be discussed in our meetings between teachers / educational partnerships. From this exchange of ideas, before and during our meetings, a review will emerge which will be transferable to other socio –educational contexts and to other European schools. This transfer will be operated through a European platform concerning the school drop-out rate; to which teachers will have access for the delivery of our practices and will subsequently be able to share their personal and innovative practices with their peers.

This methodological study concerning the school drop –out rate would not be complete without the involvement of pupils in difficulty and we would expect each school in the partnership to select five potential drop-out pupils and lead them to work together and thus achieve a European dimension. This pupils’ cooperative work will be achieved through the European digital platform called E-twinning , and all exchanges will take place in the Twinspace. The pupils themselves will define their project ( video, music, artistic activities ). These projects will be presented at a teacher/ pupil meeting at the end of the year in one of the partnership schools ( 1 meeting each year i.e 2 meetings teachers/pupils in two years) In this sense ; a European dimensional integration of pupils will truly play its role in the leverage to counter the school drop-out rate.

Project Website

http://www.backschool.net

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 70673 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycee professionnel Rene COUZINET & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Collège MILCENDEAU
• 1 EPAL KAVALAS
• Aksaray Ataturk Anadolu Lisesi
• Collège de la lys