New methodologies to avoid early school leaving Erasmus Project

Project Title

New methodologies to avoid early school leaving

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

he idea of this project came up as a response to the increasing drop out rate and the decreasing motivation of pupils. We have to involve pupils in the learning process and assume that the teacher isn’t the only source of information. Modern learning could be a great option to increase the interest of young people to study. Moreover, new apps in learning, digital materials, new subjects as robotics, 3D printing, new methodologies such as Flipped classrooms and innovations are becoming a trend in education and a must in society.
The focus of our project has been making learning attractive for our students with disadvantaged backgrounds and with special needs by using new technology and digital tools and to give teachers the means needed to achieve this goal.
Therefore one of the goals has been to involve these students in the project to promote inclusion and equity and to prevent their early school leaving.
Through these activities we have raised the students’ European awareness and make them successful European citizens by jointly work in the workshops and formative activities organized in the International Study Visits.
Objectives
– to support the innovation and creativity in didactic activities; implementation of innovative strategies
– fostering peer learning
• the development of social and intercultural skills and a European Awareness of community
• the improvement of language skills
• the reduction of disparities between students from disadvantaged backgrounds and those who are better off
• the development of digital skills by using modern technologies:
• the development of intercultural skills as well as a European sense of community and the promotion of e-twinning at schools
• the improvement of personal and professional training and the exchange of knowledge between European teachers
• the creation of synergies between secondary and vocational schools,
• the dissemination of the project’s findings to the public, the Ministry of Education, town halls, other schools
• improved educational opportunities and additional job perspectives
· Increasing the European dimension of our organizations
On the one hand, the activities has been integrated in the school curriculum, that means that all the students in the groups or classes involved in the project have participated and they did the activities planned in each school. More than 400 students and 100 teachers have been directly involved in the project activities in the different schools.
Nevertheless, only some of these students and teachers were selected to go to the Short term exchanges to do the activities planned for each meeting. An average of 4 students and 2, 3 teachers have participated in each of the meetings. 40 teachers have also had the possibility of taking part in transnational meetings.
There have been four Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils in Italy, Hungary, Greece and Latvia.
We worked with educational video editing and new methodos of learning as Two voices lesson in Italy.
The meeting in Hungary was about flipped classrooms and educational apps which let our students create innovative lessons about general topics worked at schools.
Athens held the meeting about robotics where students presented some devices putting in common their previous work at schools.
The last meeting was in Latvia where students had the opportunity to work with 3d printing and they worked on a new business prototype
All the short-term exchanges have followed the same pattern which included a formative activity, workshop, cultural visits and presentations made by students.
The outputs of this project have been very varied including the work done by students related to educational videos, booktrailers, tutorials about using robotics devices, lessons based on flipped classrooms, presentations about each country made by students, 3d products which can be shared to the motivational purpose at school level.
There have been many outcomes during the projects. Students and teachers have been working with new educational tools and their ICT skills have been reinforced gaining new knowledge in many of them.
This project has had a huge impact in all the schools due to the cooperation among partners and the exchange of good practices. All schools have had the opportunity to involve many students and teachers in new methods of learning and it has been very beneficial for the community. Thanks to the budget of the project we have aqquired new materials in robotics and 3D printing to be used in our lessons implementing new techniques and methods.
In a short future there will be many teachers collaborating and working with the results of this project, using the website, implementing new classes with the knowledge acquired, creating new environments with robotics devices and using 3d printer.
A new project with a Primary school from our city has been approved, so in a long term there will be many benefits and we have overcome many hurdles we had in the past.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 146305 Eur

Project Coordinator

I.E.S. MARÍA CEGARRA SALCEDO & Country: ES

Project Partners

• I.I.S. Via Roma, 298
• Liepajas Raina 6. vidusskola
• Budapesti Muszaki Szakképzési Centrum Egressy Gábor Két Tanítási Nyelvu Szakgimnáziuma
• Srednja skola Hvar
• 5th Gymnasium of Iraklio Attikis