This project aims to prevent early school leaving combating failure in education, to develop strategies for the issues of career guidence and youth unemployment, and to develop innovative education methods for improving student motivation in VET. The reasons which motivate us doing this project can be described as below: 1. Vocational school students are seemed that they cannot reach expected academic or work-based educational achievement. 2. New beginners of the vocational education are seemed to be indecisive and unwilling about their career choices, which might be a reason for their failure and early school leaving. 3. The students who donot have a future goal or career plan are seemed to be unsuccessful not only at vocational school but also in business life. 4. Vocational school students are seemed not to meet the needs of enterprises and business world when they gradute. The activities of this project are going to focus on identifying the reasons for inadequate or lack of motivation in VET and developing practical, sustainable approaches for increasing student motivation in order to deal with the disadvantageous mentioned above. Antalya Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School (Turkey) is going to coordinate the management and implementation of the project within the participation of IIS Francesco Orioli(Italy), Karlstads kommun Nobelgymnasiet(Sweden) and IES Punta Del Verde(Spain). All of the partner schools have non-profit public body experiencing similar problems and disadventagous, carrying out studies to increase student motivation in their schools and are eager to share their good applications regarding motivation while learning from others. Our objective is to exchange good practises on alumni cooperation for motivation, internationalization for motivation, integration for motivation and emotional intelligence for motivation while working on developing systematic, innovative educational methods for assessment and improvement of student motivation as a key competence in vocational education and our schools’ VET quality. We’ve planned monthly activities in our schools which require the involvement of students, teachers, parents and representatives of private enterprises such as carrying out questionnaires, working on innovative survey techniques which especially meets the needs of VET institutions and arranging educational semminars, meetings, visits. Besides, we’ve planned 4 learning/training activities in each partner country to evaluate the implementation of the project and exchanging good practises to transfere our schools’ education system. 3 participants from the coordinator school and 2 participants from the partner schools are going to participate in the learning/training activities.The participants will involve in the activities at management, mentoring and teaching level. As a result of this project, we expect to improve student motivation by providing early job orientation for their vocational fields and future career. We expect to let them make the most appropriate choices and decisions about their future career not only by knowing themselves and expectancies but also realizing the job opportunities and specialities well. We expect to decrease early school leavings caused by the wrong decisions, unhappiness and failure. We expect to exchange the good practises supporting student motivation in partner schools, transfere the good applications, create innovative, systematic and sustainable approaches in order to strengthen key competences and VET quality in our schools. We expect that this project will strengthen the cooperation and internalization of VET schools, work-based settings and labour market. It will develop and support teachers’, trainers’ and mentors’ competence and ability regarding motivation and entrepreneurship. It will increase job availability for the graduated students and decrease youth unemployment in a long term since they are highly motivated and decisive on what they really expect from their future career. The participants will introduce the new methods and approaches to the vocational and mentoring teachers at their institutions arranging meetings and seminars. “www.vetforall.org.tr” internet address will be used as the project website. The project activities and results will be published in Turkish and English fort he good use of all the beneficiaries. The users will be able to give feedback and make comments and also be replied and informed via this webpage. The participants of the project will be given Europass Mobility Certificate. The ECVET-EQAVET (The European Quality Assurance Reference Framework) system will be used within the project so that it could be easy for the partner countries to reach and use the results and outputs of the project.
This project aims to prevent early school leaving combating failure in education, to develop strategies for the issues of career guidence and youth unemployment, and to develop innovative education methods for improving student motivation in VET. The reasons which motivate us doing this project is as below: 1. Vocational school students are seemed that they cannot reach expected academic or work-based educational achievement. 2. New beginners of the vocational education are seemed to be indecisive and unwilling about their career choices, which might be a reason for their failure and early school leaving. 3. The students who don't have a future goal or career plan are seemed to be unsuccessful not only at vocational school but also in business life. 4. Vocational school students are seemed not to meet the needs of enterprises and business world when they graduate. The activities of this project have focused on identifying the reasons for inadequate or lack of motivation in VET and developing practical, sustainable approaches for increasing student motivation to deal with the disadvantageous mentioned above. Antalya Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School (Turkey) has coordinated the management and implementation of the project within the participation of IIS Francesco Orioli(Italy), Karlstads kommun Nobelgymnasiet(Sweden) and IES Punta Del Verde(Spain). The partner schools have non-profit public body experiencing similar problems and disadvantageous, carrying out studies to increase student motivation in their schools and are eager to share their good applications regarding motivation while learning from others. We exchanged good practices on alumni cooperation for motivation, internationalization for motivation, integration for motivation and emotional intelligence for motivation while working on developing systematic, innovative educational methods for assessment and improvement of student motivation as a key competence in vocational education and our schools’ VET quality. In order to reach the project objectives, we carried out monthly activities. We created a questionnaire to measure the motivation level of vocational school students and to identify the reasons of of low motivation in 4 languages. Each partner school conducted this questionnaire online. Totally 574 VET students involved in the survey. The project teams assessed the questionnaires and shared the obtained data firstly with the school community , then with the partner schools. The comparative results were uploaded the project website, vetforall.org.tr. Each partner school carried out motivation-enhancing activities according to the results of the survey. The motivation-enhancing activities involved technical visits to private companies, university visits, organizing or attending to introductory events for VET fields, organizing seminars which improves students’ professional or self-development, inviting former students to share study and work experience. Besides, we realized 4 learning/training activities in each partner country to evaluate the implementation of the project and exchanging good practices to transfer our schools’ education system. Totally 9 participants involved in each LTT activity. The participants involved in the activities at management, mentoring and teaching level. As a result of this project, we created a questionnaire which measures motivation level of VET students. This online questionnaire is not only practical to apply and assess, but also sustainable.The activities carried out according to the results of the questionnaire are also improvable and sustainable depending on the needs of the students and schools. It has been observed that these activities have improved student motivation by providing early job orientation for their vocational fields and future career. During the application of the project, the number of school activities which support students’ self-improvement and knowledge of VET fields were obviously increased. As a result of this, students’ interest to our schools has been increased. We exchanged the good practices supporting student motivation in partner schools, transferred the good applications, created innovative, systematic and sustainable approaches in order to strengthen key competences and VET quality in our schools. This project has strengthened the cooperation and internalization of VET schools, work-based settings and labor market.It has developed and supported teachers’, trainers’ and mentors’ competence and ability regarding motivation and entrepreneurship. The protocols that were signed during the project term have provided our students to get a job and decrease youth unemployment in a long term. A project activity booklet was published in Turkish and English. The booklet and all the documents including project activities were uploaded vetforall.org.tr, web sites and social media accounts of partner institutions.