Context We are 5 European schools that are bonded by the same purpose: to provide nationwide knowledge to our students for them to acquire new skills, increase their creativity and be more motivated and engaged in school activities. With this project, we will improve our own knowledge by learning from each other and putting in practice a plan to diagnose and prevent Early School Leaving (ESL) by using the extracurricular activities offers that each of our schools has presently. We believe that we will be successful in this motivation because students will be involved, and this is the best way for them to reach out and get in contact with the European reality and identity, improve new relationships, be open-minded towards different cultures. Every school will participate in this project with its own experience and, therefore, be the host of the other schools by showing their example of good performance, showing the others their methodology and the results that students can get by attending a specific club or activity at school -implementing after-school clubs for students. Serbia will present the results and methodology of the photography club, Romania will show how their environment club works, Poland expertise will be on the ICT club. As for Spain, the drama club will be the highlight and Turkey, with the robotics club will share their experience. The goals of this plan are: To increase STUDENTS’ stimulation towards school (by motivating students’ awareness of self-esteem and safety, developing their identity and increasing personal aptitudes) To diminish ESL amongst students To plan a common long-term program to fight ESL To increase the number and quality of extracurricular activities in each school To promote crucial aptitudes for the 21st-century student – ICT, digital know-how, teamwork, social communication and social abilities. To cultivate students’ sense of innovation To facilitate cultural interexchange To raise students and teachers’ cultural awareness through dialogue and partnership Participants The target groups will be 13 to 14-year-old students, in a total of about 300 students. Likewise, teachers from every school – around 150 – will be participants in the project. Approximately 125 students and 50 accompanying teachers will be involved in the mobilities; the students will be part of the target group. The social backgrounds, interests and motivation shown by the students will be the major guidelines for selecting the participants. Our focus of interest will be on students who are at risk of abandoning school. Activities The first LTTE will be organized in Serbia. Teachers and students will join this first meeting and debates and seminars will be prepared for teachers .Students will be involved in workshops about photography for which they will be assigned specific tasks. Serbia, the coordinator country will provide the lectures for teachers about the subject “Motivating students awareness of self-esteem and safety”. Later on, workshops on the same topic will be run with teachers and students altogether. Likewise, LTTA 2 we will be organized in Romania, where teachers will take part in presentations about “Developing children’s identity”. They will sit in on workshops on the issue, and they will learn about environmental education as well. Poland will organize LTTA3, about “Strengthening children’s sense of commitment” and ICT club activities. LTTA 4 will have Spain as the leader and “Increasing personal aptitudes” will be the topic under analysis and the drama club activities will be shown and shared. At last, LTTA 5, organized in Turkey, will pay particular attention to “Foster parent-teacher-student effective communication and draw a plan of action”, as well as robotics for beginners. Results Workshops, support materials and lectures, meeting reports describing the activities and conclusions, methodologies for putting the clubs in practice and running them, exchanged practices, attendance certificates, pictures taken by STUDENTS, photos of activities, videos, presentations, articles, pictures, interviews, Facebook page, website and Twinspace, . Impact Short and long-term advantages will be numerous as a result of participating in this partnership. Our human resources will improve their tolerance, as well as their effective knowledge on how to implement and use after-school clubs. After observing all clubs from all partners in the first year, the second year will be used for implementing new clubs in each partners’ school. These new activities will make us reach major objectives like increasing student stimulus towards school, their sense of innovation and cultural awareness. Students will be more engaged in their roles; feel more motivated to develop their autonomous and voluntary work at school and will be catapults to increase other students’ interest in school activities too. We also expect that ESL will diminish by applying our long term program to fight it.
Context Bonded by the same purpose: to provide nationwide knowledge to our students to acquire new skills, increase their creativity and be more motivated and engaged in school activities, five European schools organized a lot to involve students in discovering and applying new strategies and instruments to improve the students' learning methods. We all think that sharing is growing and we are interested to work together. This project improved our own knowledge by learning from each other and putting into practice a plan to diagnose and prevent ESL by using the extracurricular activities that each of our schools has presently. Students were really involved in this project and this was the best way to reach out and get in contact with the European reality and identity, improve new relationships, and be open-minded towards different cultures. Every school participated in this project with its own experience and was the master of the other schools by showing its example of good performance, showing to the others its methodology, and the results that students can get by attending a specific after-school club or activity at school. Serbia presented the results and methodology of the photography club, Romania showed environment club work, and Poland's expertise was on the ICT club. As for Spain, the drama club was the highlight, and Turkey, with the robotics club, shared their experience. The goals of this plan were: To increase pupils’ stimulation towards school by motivating their awareness of self-esteem and safety, developing their identity, and increasing personal aptitudes; To diminish ESL among students; To plan a standard long-term program to fight ESL; To increase the number and quality of extracurricular activities in each school; To promote crucial aptitudes for the 21st-century student – ICT, digital know-how, teamwork, social communication, and social abilities; To cultivate students’ sense of innovation; To facilitate cultural interexchange; To raise students' and teachers’ cultural awareness through dialogue and partnership. All these goals were enriched but a third of the list is verifiable just in the long term comparing the number of ESL students year after year. Participants The target groups were 13 to 14-years-old students, a total of about 300 students. Likewise, teachers from every school, around 150 were participants in the project. Approximately 125 students and 50 accompanying teachers were involved in the mobilities. The social backgrounds, interests, and motivation shown by the students were the major guidelines for selecting the participants. Our focus of interest was on students who are at risk of abandoning school. Activities The first LTTE was organized in Serbia. Teachers and pupils joined this first meeting where debates and seminars were prepared for teachers. Students were involved in workshops on photography for which they were assigned specific tasks. Serbia, the coordinator country provided lectures for teachers about the subject “Motivating students' awareness of self-esteem and safety”. Later on, workshops on the same topic were run with teachers and students altogether. Likewise, LTTA 2 was organized in Romania, where teachers took part in presentations about “Developing children’s identity”. They set up workshops on the issue, and they learned about environmental education as well. Poland organized LTTA, about “Strengthening children’s sense of commitment” and ICT club activities. LTTA 4 was held in Spain, “Increasing personal aptitudes” was the topic under analysis and the drama club activities were shown and shared. Lastly, LTTA 5, organized in Turkey, paid particular attention to “Foster parent-teacher-student effective communication and drown a plan of action”, as well as robotics for beginners. Results Workshops, support materials and lectures, meeting reports describing the activities and conclusions, methodologies for putting the clubs into practice and running them, exchanged practices, attendance certificates, pictures taken by pupils, photos of activities, videos, presentations, articles, pictures, interviews, Facebook page, Instagram page, website, and Twinspace. Impact Short and long-term advantages are numerous as a result of participating in this partnership. Our human resources improved tolerance, as well as their effective knowledge of how to implement and use after-school clubs. After observing all clubs from all partners in the first year, the second year was used for implementing new clubs in each partner's school. These new activities reached our major objectives like increasing student stimulus towards school, their sense of innovation, and cultural awareness. Students were more engaged in their roles, felt more motivated to develop their autonomous and voluntary work at school, and were catapulted to increase other students’ interest in school activities, too. We also expect that ESL will diminish by applying a long-term program to fight it.