CHANCE Erasmus Project

Project Title

CHANCE

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: Gender equality / equal opportunities; Pedagogy and didactics; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

The lack of motivation, the demotivation of students in regards to classwork and homework but also when faced with the need to make efforts are common features in the European schools, partners in the CHANCE project. In France, Germany and Lithuania, the issue of a passive in-school drop out (drop in) has been observed, the symptoms of which are varied and common to our students : presence/absence in class (students often visiting the nurse’s office, falling asleep in class,with no yearning for school, often questioning why they should be at school and the meaning of schooling). The students who have experienced school difficulties since primary school are likely to get out of the school system prematurely and will have a harder time graduating after high school and/or find a job.Thanks to the CHANCE project, we want to entice our 7 to 14 year-old students to feel a yearning for work again. The objective of the project is to reinforce the fight against passive in-school drop-out or rather to encourage the return to work, develop and bolster school ambition within a European project. In the end, it is about having tools available against school drop out or against giving up when faced with difficulty, about providing educational teams an easy-to-use tool box which our partners could adapt to their needs.
The groups taking part in the activities of the CHANCE project will be adult staff and pupils. The age of the pupils will vary depending on the partner schools age groups (from primary school to junior secondary school). 5 students will be able to take part in each mobility. Their selection will stem from a common consultation ; yet we have already established some requisites : the participating students will be evaluated as on the verge of dropping out, or poorly motivated by their studies or having recurrent problems with school life, but also as leading students who bring people together, who are ready to engage in cooperation and peer-learning. We will be deeply concerned with a gender parity being respected and with assessing motivation in regards to the challenge of communicating in English, the language chosen by the partners of the project. Each school will set up learning activities over a period of 2 years in order to overcome the problems raised. These activities will be carried out individually, virtually with e-twinning or during the mobilities. We will establish activities without mobilities put in place in each school such as daily reading, consolidation of peer-tutoring (pupil/pupil or teacher/pupil) in order to reinforce trust and to encourage an atmosphere ideal for work. We will also offer a competence pyramid for each to measure the progress made. Student ambassadors now in senior high school or post-graduates will come and present their experience. Besides, we will organize activities during the mobilities, such as ice-breaking activities to communicate in English and overcome the fear of the unknown/stranger.
We will set up a school board in order to make pupils and adults aware of their responsabilities within the project, a time capsule to look to the future, flipped classroom activities, short internships in ‘Parity and Ambition’ companies and a ‘live my school’ cooperative workshop.The indicators set up at the beginning and end of the project will help us assess achivement of the target. They will encompass the number of visits to the nurse’s office, the frequency of students falling asleep in class or being late or absent, the exam success rate, the individual work not handed in or not done,etc.) A second survey among staff, families and pupils about the progress observed will allow to assess if the lack of work has decreased and if school interest increased. Our project will also have positive and lasting repercussions on the participating organisations such as formal learning, measured thanks to the indicators, leading to better linguistic compentences. In regards to non-formal learning, we hope to observe an increase in motivation, satisfaction in daily work, a reinforcement in activities where boys and girls from different origins and countries will cooperate. The CHANCE project will encourage the young participants to have a more positive attitude vis à vis the European project and the values of the EU. The tool box put in place to fight passive in-school drop out will be at the disposal of the schools of the reagion of each partner in their mother tongue and in English. The result of our work will be issued in a ceremony during the dissemination meeting in France. Pupils and staff will be given a diploma to validate their compentences and active participation in the project. The issue of ‘enticing students to work’ being large, we will continue to work with our partners and enlarge our topic to the ambition of high school students thanks to the support of the EU.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 63342 Eur

Project Coordinator

CITE SCOLAIRE JAURES & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Atgimimas School
• Gesamtschule Aspe
• Ecole Blanchard-Caussat