Our goals and priorities (transferable skills) : tackle the learning difficulties, the school dropout and the low knowledge of the basic skills. The three selected items should be the basis of our action : inclusion of the disabled students, continuing education programs for the teachers and pedagogical innovating solutions. In the 6 countries involved we wanted to achieve these following goals : • Train teachers by exchanging our efficient practices, with the help of the cognitive sciences, the digital tools, the environmental and artistic knowledges of each of us in order to improve teaching skills for our students. • Establish innovative and transferable practices in order to initiate a dynamic in the different institutions from each country. Enhance the initiative spirit in each teacher. • Create a sharing tool on the internet : Genially. With this tool we wish to disseminate our research findings and support the trainers, the teachers and school directors in their search for new pedagogical teaching skills.
The Alaric junior high school is a rural establishment located in the department of Aude, the second poorest department in France. The public served by this school is socially mixed but with a large proportion of disadvantaged students (45% of them are scholarship students). The number of students with special educational needs is higher than the national level. In order to react to this specificity, the teachers seek different solutions to help their pupils and to motivate them despite their social and intellectual low capacities. We answered to a real need for vocational training to be able to achieve this goal. We needed to develop our knowledge, our skills and the pedagogical tools that we used. These teachers’ needs were the consequences of our students’ needs. The children need new solutions to help them understand and develop their knowledges and we didn’t know how to do it. We are expecting from this Erasmus’ project to create a synergy between each member of the school, to open our mind, to find new pedagogical answers. We needed to open up to others et have the time to think all together in order to find answers to the European’s challenge of education.