At the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year, a project commission was established under the leadership of the school principal to apply for and benefit from Erasmus+ projects. it has been decided that applying for this project will prevent school absenteeism and prevent school dropouts, motivate students and teachers in the process of learning and teaching, and will have a direct impact on academic achievement. It will be possible to realize the transfer of knowledge , change of good practices, different motivation methods, new education and teaching techniques by utilizing this opportunity. catching the targets of the Project ,the success of it and the continuation of our work will be possible with the grant of 106.928.000 Euro from the European Union We are 6 partners from Italy,Spain, netherlands, Poland, slovakia and Turkey. Each stakeholders are experienced in Erasmus or other EU projects. There will not be students mobility , There will be Learnin Teaching Training activities during 2 years Project. According to the report of OECD, Turkey is the lowest third country education participation rate. Turkey took first place in the ranking with 55% slice in school absenteeism. In OECD countries this rate is only 14%. Percentage of students attending education in the age group 15-19 is 69% in turkey. This rate is 84% in OECD countries. 7% of the 69% goes out of education with for various reasons.link: https://tedmem.org/mem-notlari/gorus/turkiyede-baska-ulkelerde-okul-terkleri-devamsizlik According to the 2013 final report of the European Union, school dropout rate in Turkey is 39,6%, 24,9% in Spain, 12,7% in other European countries. It is also known that absenteeism is a pioneer of early school leaving. In our region some of our students discontinue school because of various reasons. One of the reason is the need for labor in agriculture due to the fact that it is a large agricultural area. Children are seen as low-cost and labor-intensive individuals in agricultural activities. Another reason is educational level of parents is low. The interest of parents for education is low. Some of the families are from low level of life. Children have negative taboos from previous generations. In other words,the absence of highly successful and educated people in their surroundings pushes them to farming. In this context, this project is planned to share and implement good practices and innovative approaches about situations affecting school dropouts across Europe to increase motivation ,participation in school and school activities in 2 years period. We aim to reduce the rate of early school leaving by 4% at each partner schools with the goals and targets we have set. Within 2 years period from project start date ; - To ensure that the best practice is taken and disseminated for those who are at risk of leaving school at an early age. In this context; - Participating and observing the classes of partner countries to share teaching experience to identify the most effective one. - Organizing seminars by each partner country related to the main issues affecting school dropouts. - To ensure that students especially at the risk of leaving school, parents and school staff attend in the seminars. - To prepare the best practice guidelines - To ensure that all partners of this project receive and implement at least one innovative direction of the most effective practice. - To ensure that all the activities are evaluated during 2 years period. - To see the changes there will be pre-test and pro-test implemented to students and parents - To ensure that all project outputs are accessible for free from the project web page. - To ensure the continuity of project results and applications webpage will be open for years. - To ensure Project to be known in wider public , the Project implementations , results ,impact and success of the project will be published on local presses with the link of Project webpage. - there will be other dissemination activities like posters , brochures , radio programme (in spain), good practice guides, e-twinning.
The project „Back to school,Back to the Future” was participated by six partner schools from Turkey, Poland,Spain, Italy, Slovakia and Holland. This Project was established to prevent school absenteeism and prevent school dropouts, motivate students and teachers in the process of learning and teaching, and to have a direct impact on academic achievement. In addition, We aimed to gain the transfer of knowledge , change of good practices, different motivation methods, new education and teaching techniques. It is clear that being a suitable classroom environment for both successful and unsuccessful students is one of the factors affecting attendance. Considering that there are students with different learning abilities in the classroom and by diversifying the teaching methods, we minimized the difference in the learning level in the classroom environment. In this way, we provided success motivation to students who were unsuccessful in learning. Workshops on the use of web.2 tools such as Kahoot, Plickers and wordwall provided motivation through learning collobratively by using the method participative learning and teaching.These tools gave students the opportunity to use technology in their learning. The tools enabled the student to learn both with pleasure and with a sense of achievement. This led to the diversification of the teaching tools of the teacher and the strengthening of the profile of the teaching profession. The art-based activities held during local and LTT activities like ''Art workshops , creating memory game , art in nature, drawing the dream school of future, art labs during italian mobility and drawing logo of the project'' highlighted the creativity of the students. In connection with this issue, making a product jointly was motivating for the students. we tried to keep students in contact as much as possible. this contributed to the increase of students' interest in the culture of other countries and to their English proficiency by using English language in written and oral ways.And we created motivation in this direction. We achieved this through pen pals, magic bus (story of the project-creative writing), students' online meetings and mascots activities. The trip to the science centers was both motivating for the students and offered the opportunity to learn new information outside of the classroom. Organizing visits to workplaces with students ,introducing people from different professions were organized to make students aware of their own interest and to provide relevant motivation for the professions Trasferring good practice: At the end of the project, each school started to apply the new application or teaching methods that was experienced during the project by transferring it to its own school. The valuable exchange of good practices and new teaching methods and materials allowed teachers to make their lessons more attractive, contributing in this way to students' success in their school life. We can point out that when the surveys we conducted at the beginning of the project were compared with the surveys made at the end of the project, we observed an increase in students' satisfaction with the school environment and schooling motivation. We know that in the long term, the outputs of the project will be used in the daily practices of each partner organisation.