All Together Learning AT School Erasmus Project

Project Title

All Together Learning AT School

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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Access for disadvantaged; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The project ATLAS (“All Together Learning AT School”) was born from a reflection and from questioning about the teaching teams facing integration difficulties of some students, manifested in their behavior towards themselves (lack of confidence, unease, conducted at risk), others (indiscipline, verbal and physical abuse, degradation…) and against school work that is requested (absenteeism, work not done, underachievement leading to early school leaving). Six very different schools from France, Turkey, Spain, Poland, Italy and Portugal, were gathered in order to get an overall view on integration problems : different ages (from 11 to 20), small/big schools, general/vocational education, public/private, urban/rural, different social backgrounds, different integration problems… The main objective of the project was, on the basis of an initial diagnosis in each school, to seek together solutions to these problems of school integration, relying on the teaching methods or school organizations already experienced in each of our institutions: Poland brought its experience on the impact of an disadvantaged social and economic background; Italy on non-formal learning methods destined for students with learning disabilities; Spain on the integration of students from different cultures; Portugal on the problems of rejection of rules and indiscipline; Turkey on the lack of motivation; France on students with deep family and social problems (especially foster children). These solutions were presented to partners during 6 meetings with training activities, analysed together and criticized. Every transferable element of these methods was identified and that exchange begins to lead to the implementation in each establishment of new practices and/or school organizations aimed at dealing with the familial / social / cultural… diversity of all of our students and better answering the needs of the most underprivileged groups. Each partner was responsible for the very part of the project in which its school is the most experienced and for the organization of a meeting with training activities dedicated to this topic. Different productions and/or communication tools were also under the responsability of different partners: the project logo; a common website; open source ICT tools ; a “White book” of integration problems ; a dictionnary of educational vocabulary. At the end of this project we are even more convinced that an inclusive education is the key of the improvement of the school coexistence and the academic performance. We already found for our schools some solutions to overcome different obstacles that stop students’ educational achievements and enable proper social growth and successful existence in the modern European society. Thanks to these exchanges the staff can better face the disparities affecting learners with disadvantaged backgrounds (social, cultural, familial…) and our schools will develop equal opportunities in order to integrate all the students especially from disavantaged groups and avoid all kinds of discriminations, and also improve for all the students social, civic, intercultural compétences as well as values of inclusion and tolerance. We hope that our experience and refexion presented in the “White book” could be now helpful for anyone working in the field of school integration.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 149047,2 Eur

Project Coordinator

College Gaucelm Faidit & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Instituto de Educación Secundaria Río Aguas
• Ozel Yalova Doga Anadolu Lisesi
• Istituto Comprensivo Statale “San Giovanni Bosco”
• ZESPOL SZKOL TECHNICZNYCH IM ZIEMI DOBRZYNSKIEJ W LIPNIE
• Agrupamento de escolas D Pedro I