INTEGRATIVE PATHWAYS FOR STUDENTS WITH SOCIAL, EDUCATIONAL ANDMOTIVATIONAL NEEDS Erasmus Project

Project Title

INTEGRATIVE PATHWAYS FOR STUDENTS WITH SOCIAL, EDUCATIONAL ANDMOTIVATIONAL NEEDS

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 school education

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; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Disabilities – special needs

Project Summary

As planned in the application form all the activities done during the two years project have been focused on students showing lack of control, lack of self confidence, difficulty in finding job,, corruption all around the society, lack of values that
often discourage the weakest that after frequent unsuccesses at school, leave it forever. These students, often become a serious problem for
teachers who work with nearly30 students per class, for this reason there isn’t sufficient time to take care of the most discomforted
and unmotivated one.. The aims were 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,a Vocational school for catering, service and tourism “L. de Medici”.
Catania – Italy,The Vocational Hospitality College (IPSSAR) “Karol Wojtyla”
Sibiu – Romania, Colegiul Tehnic de Industrie Alimentara “Terezianum”
Galati – Romania,Colegiul Tehnic de alimentatie si turism “Dumitru Motuc”
Odemis- Turkey,Odemis Ticaret Odasi Anadulu Lisesi
Kasanlak-Bulgaria,Humanitaria gimnaziya “Sv.sv.Kirili Metodij”
Slima- Malta, Newark school
Klaipeda-Lithuania,Klaipedos paslaugu ir verslo mokykla
The objectives through which we have reached the main goals were:
– avoid the discomfort that the student brings to the class and feels himself;
– better the relationship among the students and his/her classmates;
– highlight the things he/she can do better and socialize them to the class, to create self-confidence;
– arise his/her social interaction;
– build life experiences in order to improve job .
The project has 8 partners: Italy- Naples- the coordinator, vocational school for catering, service and tourism. Catania – Italy, Sibiu – Romania, Galati – Romania,Odemis- Turkey, Kasanlak-Bulgaria,Slima- Malta and Klaipeda-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. An international conference was organized 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. The questionnaires can be found on the website. A brochure with all the papers presented and all the studies has been issued. Besides, a seminar was organized 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 has been issued.
What is more, a Methodological Guide”OVERCOMING THE RISKS OF EARLY SCHOOL LEAVERS AND IMPROVING BASIC SKILLS” has been coordinated, assembled and published, with ISBN, by ISIS “L. de Medici” to be used as a didactic resource consisting of
guidelines /integrative pathways to overcome the risks of early school leavers and improving the basic skills of those students.
Tangible results are:
– questionnaires and the grids of evaluation, with their interpretation by experts in psycology and inclusion;
– all the results collected in an ebook, to be found onthe web site of the project;
-a blog;
– 2 newsletters with the description of the most impressive activities carried out during the 2 years of the project;
– the conference brochure, as ebook, with the papers and studies presented;
– an ebook collecting the results of the students exchanges, stressed on Best practices for integrating these students with disabilities;,
-statistics done on the students’ results and progress, observation grids, an educational video with practical ways of work with the students in need; – – an English course for the students participating in the mobilities, dance, sports or handmade manufacturing clubs in schools, with Europass
Language Passport for students;
-flyers and leaflet;
-a Facebook and whatsapp project group;
-the logo of the project.

Expected results and long term benefits are:
– 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.
– to lead them towards the freedom from these gaps. We hope have increasde 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.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 149290 Eur

Project Coordinator

I.S.I.S.-ISTITUTO STATALE ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE “LUIGI DE’ MEDICI” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Newark School
• Colegiul Tehnic de Industrie Alimentara “Terezianum”
• ODEMIS TICARET ODASI ANADOLU LISESI
• Klaipedos paslaugu ir verslo mokykla
• Istituto Professionale di Stato per i servizi Enogastronomici e dell’Ospitalità Alberghiera “Karol Wojtyla”
• Colegiul Tehnic de Alimentatie si Turism Dumitru Motoc
• Humanitarna gimnaziya “Sv. sv. Kiril i Metodij”, Kazanlak