School of Tomorrow: The aim of the project is to create an inclusive school through integreated strategies for preventing early school leaving. Strategies for tackling early school leaving could be divided into three main categories; Prevention, Intervention and Compensation. In this project, the main focus will be on strategies and good practices connected to “Intervention” and especially School-wide strategies that address all pupils, but are beneficial to those at risk of dropping-out. The project will examine and exchange good practices/methodologies that could support schools and other educational actors to tackle early school leaving and integrate this in different strategies. We will examine and contribute to the European Toolkit at School Education Gateway. The partners: We are six partners from six different countries. We are two schools, four organisations that work with teachers in service training/teacher students. All are interested in inclusion and all have interesting ideas and practices to share. The experience from international cooperation and Erasmus+ projects vary from beginner to the ones with great experience. The activities: The main activities in this project are the short term joint staff meeting events that are to be held at four different occasions. Each event will be hosted by one or two partners. They will share their field of expertice. We will also get tasks in between the events and these will be presented at the event. The staff training events will be in a small groups of 12 persons and will be intimate and focused on practical work. Some studyvisits and social events will be a part of each staff training. But the main focus will be to learn the method or discuss the strategy presented. Goals: We will contribute to the European Tool kit. We will create an international network for future reference and cooperation. We all enter the project with open minds and will implement new ideas in our different operations locally. In the long run: School of tomorrow will be contributing to create an inclusive school for all kind of students. The people involved in this project will share their skills and knowledge in their networks. Teachers and school developers will benifit from the knowledge gathered in this project.
The idea behind the project was to exchange, collect and share ideas, methods, practical activities, best practices to help to create an inclusive school and preventing early school leaving. School of Tomorrow wanted to equip the learners, students with skills and competences such as creative thinking, inquiry based learning and independent learning. Within the SOT project teachers and facilitators in the field of education have come together to share best practices from their teaching experiences and presented for each others. The project was based on 4 international training meetings where all partners presented at least one or more methods/activities fit into the project criteria. After the trainings, partners as multipliers shared the learnt methods/activities to their colleagues, fellow-teachers, and educators. All methods were evaluated by partners and the trained colleagues and if it was possible by the students. The variety of the methods/activates could adapt easily into the formal and non-formal education field. During the project period partners discussed the effectivity of the shared and tested methods/activities and using these experiences they collected the best practices into a toolbox. With the publication of the online toolbox which is available on the project’s website (https://anthropolis.hu/projektek/sot), on the EPALE and the School Education Gateway the consortium disseminated the methods/activities for larger public. The partnership was composed by active educators (teachers, trainers, NGO and university staff members) who could piloting and also disseminating the activities or the toolbox in their daily practice. All partners delegated competent participants to all the trainings, who can deliver workshops, school activities and can have a further role as multiplier. The project and the partnership was well established and working well, but the Covid pandemic situation effected both the school activities and the last training meeting. The postponed last meeting in Greece was adapted the new situation and the Greek partner presented more online activities. Partner from 2 organisation (from UK and Sweden) couldn’t attend the last meeting live, they followed the trainings online (via zoom conference).