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COMENIUS CONTACT SEMINAR

“Let’s experiment together against early

school leaving!”

AMIENS, France / CRDP

15 - 18 November 2011

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Country Page Name Mail

Austria Hilde KLETZL (no Reg form) [email protected]

Belgium FR 4 Florence BERTRAND [email protected]

Belgium FR Bernard WARNANT [email protected]

Belgium NL Guy HUFKENS [email protected]

Bulgaria 7 Tsvetanka TSAKOVA [email protected]

Croatia 8 Damir JAKSIC [email protected]

Cyprus 9 Eleni MAVRIKIOU GREGORIOU [email protected]

Cyprus Andry KASSAPI [email protected]

Denmark 12 Vicki JEPSEN [email protected]

Denmark Lone KAACK WROEBELL [email protected]

Finland 14 Petteri MERTALA [email protected]

France 16 Christian BIDAUD [email protected]

France Yasmina BROSSARD [email protected]

France Marie-France CAGNIN [email protected]

France Béatrice CHAUDERLIER [email protected]

France Isabelle DELABYE [email protected]

France David DESIAGE [email protected]

France Séverine DORLEANS [email protected]

France Christophe FRANCOIS-CONNAN [email protected]

France Corinne GHESQUIER (no Reg form) [email protected]

France Brigitte HARDEL [email protected]

France Sylvie ICLANZEAN [email protected]

France Didier JAU [email protected]

France Gaêlle SAILLE [email protected]

France Sylvie WARY [email protected]

Germany 33 Regine POOK [email protected]

Germany Franziska PYKO [email protected]

Greece 35 Stella LYKOGIANNAKI [email protected]

Ireland 37 Aisling CAFFREY [email protected]

Ireland Mairead HOLMES [email protected]

Ireland Ann O'REILLY [email protected]

Italy 40 Maria-Giovanna DE MAIO [email protected]

Italy Donatella GIAQUINTO [email protected]

Italy Jutta LESSMANN [email protected]

Latvia 44 Edgars STRELIS [email protected]

Lithuania 45 Inga KUZAITIENE [email protected]

Lithuania Rimtaute MARCIULIONIENE [email protected]

Lithuania Ramona ŠVELGINAITĖ [email protected]

Norway 49 Hilde Marie OLSEN [email protected]

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Norway Kare SOLVANG [email protected]

Poland 51 Anna BARTONIEK- LEWANDOWSKA [email protected]

Poland Renata KAPICA [email protected]

Poland Dariusz MARKIEWICZ [email protected]

Portugal 54 Rita ANDRADE [email protected]

Portugal Gracinda DIAS [email protected]

Portugal Maria Ângela LIMA EVANGELISTA [email protected]

Portugal Anabela SOARES (no Reg form) [email protected]

Romania 58 Aida-Mihaela GRECU [email protected]

Romania Gratiela PADUROIU [email protected]

Spain 61 Alberto ABETE [email protected]

Spain Alfonso Manuel ACEBAL MEANA [email protected]

Spain Luisa MARCH BLASCO [email protected]

Spain Francisco Marcos Vega (no Reg form) [email protected]

Turkey 66 Ibrahim ALTUNTAS [email protected]

Turkey Ali DURAN [email protected]

Turkey Senay OZTURK [email protected]

Turkey Musa TOKMAK [email protected]

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Title: Mr / Mrs / Ms First name: Florence Last name: BERTRAND

Position:

Country: Belgium (French language)

E-mail: [email protected]

Name of the School: CEFA Namur

Type of institution: Secondary professional school

Age of the pupils: 15-21

Head teacher: Alain FOSSION

School Address: Rue Asty-Moulin, 19

Town: Namur Postal code: 5000

Country: Belgium Region: Wallonia


Website: www.cefanamur.be

Telephone: + 32 81 22 41 40

DESCRIBE BRIEFLY YOUR SCHOOL

The CEFA is an urban school, in the town center of Namur. There are +/- 375 students between 15 and 21 year old.

It’s a vocational training school, mainly in industry and building. The students are two days in the school and three days with their boss. Many young people who come to CEFA are school leavers. The “alternation” training is our way to fight school leaving.

The CEFA was a partner in two Comenius projects, with French, Spanish and Italian schools. And we participated in many Leonardo mobility projects.

YOUR PROJECT IDEA ON THE THEME OF EARLY SCHOOL LEAVING

What does your school want to do?

We are still involved in the fight against early school leaving, but we want to go further.

What kind of activities would your school like to develop?

We hope to exchange good practices. We have a long experience with young students who are not interested in the life at school, but we still have problems with early school leaving. We hope to learn of other practices in other countries.

How many teachers and pupils would your school like to involve?

8 teachers and 128 students

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Title: Mr First name: Bernard

Last name: WARNANT

Position: Coordinateur de projets, professeur

Country: Belgium (French language)


Name of the School: Athénée Royal de Waimes

Type of institution: Athénée secondaire général, technique et professionnel

Age of the pupils: 12ans à 18 ans

Head teacher: Beco Emmanuel

School Address: Rue des Hêtres, 2A

Town: Waimes

Country: Belgique

E-mail:

Website: www.arwaimes.net

Telephone: +3280679564




Créer un projet commun avec une école européenne, si possible sur le thème du développement durable, sous forme de projet, afin d'impliquer les élèves dans un projet concret. Ceci diminue l'absentéisme et la violence et augmente la motivation de nos élèves.


Tout ce qui touche au développement durable, énergies renouvelables, création d'un jardin didactique, commerce équitable ou du moins durable.


De 2 à 6 professeurs. De 25 à 100 élèves

Please state if you are looking for partners from a specific country

La France, ou du moins un pays avec échange francophone.

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Title: Mr / Mrs / Ms First name: Guy Last name: Hufkens

Position: teacher

Country: Belgium


Name of the School: Katholiek scholencentrum JOMA

Type of institution: Technical school

Age of the pupils: 12 - 18

Head teacher: Rita Pelckmans

School Address: Maantjessteenweg 133

Town: MERKSEM Postal code: B-2170

Country: Belgium Region: province Antwerpen


Website: www.ksjoma.be

Telephone: 003236455960 Fax: 003236456545


ksJOMA is a technical school situated in an urban and industrial area in the North of Antwerp. The school has 650 pupils between 12 and 18. Our pupils graduate with a speciality in commerce, ICT, accountancy, secretary, tourism, social and technical sciences and health sciences. The school has participated to two previous multilateral Comenius school projects, has hosted Comenius assistants and has carried out a few local exchange programmes over the last 6 years.



We would like to help to decrease the number of pupils that end their secondary technical education with a delay of one or two years due to a decrease of motivation or due to less chances caused by social, cultural or linguistic drawbacks or situations (e.g. immigrants, children of boatmen etc) We would like to increase motivation of pupils who have to repeat a school year by offering an interesting European experience to their training. I would like to acquire a European background to join the local "Samen tot aan de meet"-programme with our school. The programme is supported by the City of Antwerp.


We aim to participate to a new Multilateral Comenius School Project


6 teachers, 24 pupils

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Title: Mr / Mrs / Ms First name: Tsvetanka Last name: Tsakova

Position: Teacher

Country: Bulgaria


Name of the School: “Hristo Botev”

Type of institution: Secondary school

Age of the pupils: 11- 19

Head teacher: Milanka Decheva

School Address: 58 “ Hristo Iantchev” 5870 Dolni Dabnik Obl. Pleven Bulgaria

Town: Dolni Dabnik Postal code: 5870

Country: Bulgaria Region: Pleven


Website:

Telephone: 0035965142231 Fax:

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Our school is in the rural area. We have 206 students from 11- 19 years old

We don`t have past projects. We want to find partners and prepare together a future project.



We want find partners from Europe and make a future project


We want to do different motivating activities for our students in risk to leave school



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Title: Mr / First name: Damir Last name: Jaksic

Position: Head teacher

Country: Croatia


Name of the School: Prirodoslovna skola Karlovac

Type of institution: Public school


Head teacher: Damir Jaksic

School Address: Stjepana Mihlića 43,

Town: Karlovac Postal code: 47000

Country: Croatia Region:


Website: www. ss-prirodoslovna-ka.skole.hr

Telephone: +385 47 613 003 Fax: +385 47 613 002




We want to prevent the outflow of students because every year about 10% of our students end schooling and drop from the school system. We also want to find solutions for those that have already faced the problem.


Classical methods, discussions and consultations are shown not to be effective enough so we are interested in examples, possible solutions and opportunities offered by the EU experience on this subject.

How many teachers and pupils would your school like to involve? 15 teachers and 100 pupils

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Title: Mrs First name: ELENI Last name:

MAVRIKIOU GREGORIOU

Position: ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Country: CYPRUS


Name of the School: ANTHOUPOLIS GYMNASIUM

Type of institution: General secondary school

Age of the pupils: 12-15 YEARS

Head teacher: Mrs Stella Tamami

School Address: 20 Eglis Str.,

Town: Nicosia Postal code:2304

Country: Cyprus Region:


Website: http://www.schools.ac.cy/gym-ant-nic/

Telephone: 00357 22389271 Fax: 00357 22371533


Anthoupolis Gymnasium lies in the suburbs of Nicosia. The number of students who attend the Anthoupolis Gymnasium is 260 and the number of teachers is 40. This is the first time that a teacher from Anthoupolis Gymnasium joins a Comenius contact seminar. There has never been a European project under the coordination of the school or any other partnership. Therefore we consider this meeting very important and crucial for the beginning of a fruitful European corporation.



The main objective of this activity is to find the appropriate European partner in order to develop a Comenius

project with main topic “Let’s experiment together against early school leaving!”. This project will facilitate

students in overcoming their family problems and /or learning difficulties and will prevent them from early

leaving school


• Early identification of pupils at risk

• Improving the current action that the school takes( personalised learning , home teaching)

• Involvement of the parents in the actions taken by the school


Approximately 15 students and 4-5 teachers

Please state if you are looking for partners from a specific country:

Scandinavian countries( Sweden Finland Denmark), Western Europe (France, Germany, Austria Belgium)

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Title: Mr / Mrs / Ms First name: Andry Last name: Kassapi

Position: Deputy Head, English teacher

Country: Cyprus


Name of the School: Agios Georgios Lyceum

Type of institution: Vocational


Head teacher: Despoina Lysandrou

School Address: 101, Griva Digeni Av.,

Town: Larnaca Postal code: 6043

Country: Cyprus Region: Larnaca


Website: http://www.schools.ac.cy/lyc-geo-lar

Telephone: 0035724638715 Fax: 0035724638705


Our school is urban, in the town of Larnaca. It’s the second oldest school in our town. There are about 95 teachers and 610 students, their ages ranging from 15 to 18. Most of our students come from the town and neighbouring villages. A lot of them are refugees from the occupied area of Cyprus. We also have a lot of political refugees attending our school either as listeners or proper students, mostly coming from Arabic countries. Our students come from middle class families.



Early school leaving is an urgent and serious problem, both for individuals and society as a whole. All the parties involved (ministry of education, teachers, and parents) work together to reduce the number of pupils who drop out before the end of secondary education.

Although the situation may vary in different countries, our school will make an attempt to look into the reasons that lead to early school leaving. Socio-economic background of early school leavers, family pattern and support are among the most important issues that will be examined. Additionally, we will try to examine whether there is a difference in the rate of school leaving between male and female students. Also, we will look into learning difficulties, social problems lack of motivation, guidance or support.


Low levels of education do not only have severe consequences for the young people concerned, but also high

economic and social costs for society as a whole. Although there are no easy answers to the problem, there

are several measures to be taken. Strategies to prevent dropping out, or at the least to support young people

re-entering education, must address both education and social policy.

We have come up with some ideas the implementation of which may contribute to the alleviation of the

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problem. Preventive measures can include a wide range of measures such as providing high quality early

childhood education and care to give children a good start into education. Schools should be turned into

encouraging places for all pupils and provide pupils with individual support when needed. In addition, young

people who dropped out of education and training need to get a second chance in a learning environment

which addresses their specific needs and helps them to re-gain confidence in learning.

Specifically, more emphasis should be given to the students of Class A’ (age 15) as they are at the age that they

can drop out of school. A specialist will give them a presentation on the consequences of early school leaving

so as to deter them from that thought. Partnerships between schools and community based agencies will be

encouraged so as students experience an integrated model of education. Another idea is to work with families,

particularly outside of the school and outside of school hours offering individual and family counselling, group

work, and support programme. Also, we will prepare a questionnaire in order to examine attitudes and beliefs

towards the issue.


We would like to involve about 5-6 teachers and a group of 20 students

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Title: Mr / Mrs / Ms First name: Vicki Last name: Jepsen

Position: English teacher

Country: Denmark


Name of the School: Nørre Nebel Skole

Type of institution: Folkeskole (primary and lower secondary school)

Age of the pupils: From 6 to 16 years old

Head teacher: Sine Toudal

School Address: Sdr. Allé 18, 6830 Nørre Nebel

Town: Nørre Nebel Postal code: 6830

Country: Denmark Region: Varde Kommune


Website: www.norre-nebelskole.dk

Telephone: +4575288105 Fax: +4575288155


Nr Nebel Skole is an ordinary primary school with around 400 pupils from 0 to 9 Class ages 6 to 16 years. Besides that we have an increasing number of pupils from foreign countries. The school is situated in the countryside with lots of tourism and farming.

Past projects: Comenius 1.1 (pv5-076) Web Magazine



We would like to motivate out students to stay in the education system and open their eyes so they will realize

that it is desirable to study and take a longer education. We want our students through communication and

cooperation with peers from other cultures and countries will gain insight into other educational opportunities

and roads. We want students to work on issues related to further education and life capability.


In Denmark the citizens are very much protected by the welfare system we have, but unfortunately that also

means that some youngsters can’t see the importance of education, because “they will manage anyway”. We

would like to show out students how important education is in other countries and how it could be a ticket

away from a life you wouldn’t want to live. We suggest that it could be through online contact with students

from other countries, where they can share information about possible education choices.


We think we would like to involve about 5 teachers and the next year’s 9th graders, which consists of about 50

students. In the part of the school where we have the older students (7th – 9th grade) we have 200 students

and 14 teachers.

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Title: Mr / Mrs / Ms First name: Lone Last name: Kaack Wroebell

Position: Teacher

Country: Denmark


Name of the School: Højmeskolen



Head teacher: Mrs. Nanna Lohmann

School Address: Højmevænget 3

Town: Odense SV Postal code: DK-5250

Country: Denmark Region: Southern Denmark


Website: www.hojmeskolen.odense.dk

Telephone: +4563753400 Fax:


The school is situated six kilometres from the centre of Odense. There are almost 600 pupils and about 50 teachers at the school. The pupils come from very different socio-economic backgrounds. The school has a rate of approximately 9% of pupils with another mother language than Danish. These pupils are often at risk of not staying in the educational system.

This year a group of pupils in the 9th grade are participating in a Comenius-project exchanging experience with schools from Finland, England and Spain. The project finishes next summer.



Having pupils coming from very different socio-economic backgrounds, our school meets a great challenge in taking care of every pupil the right way, so that all the pupils are ready both personally and academically to start an education after finishing the ground school. In order to do so, we would like to develop the cooperation between the parents, the school, the pupil and the educational-guide in the school district. We are currently working on a project developing a school where the adolescents can maintain their curiosity and their desire to keep on learning. In order to do so, the school needs to show the pupils the link between the school and “The real life” and to show them the opportunities in the educational system. this is a project for all the pupils, but it is extremely important that we take special care of the pupils coming from non- or not well educated families.


With the pupils involved in this project we wish to develop best-practise examples of how to guide the pupils at risk so they can stay in the educational system.

How many teachers and pupils would your school like to involve? 21 pupils and 1 teacher

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Title: Mr / Mrs / Ms First name: Petteri Last name: Mertala

Position: Teacher of history, social studies (politics, economics, law and European affairs), philosophy. Responsible for school’s international issues

Country: Finland


Name of the School: Lauttakylän lukio (Upper Secondary School)

Type of institution: General upper secondary school

Age of the pupils: 15-18 years

Head teacher: Mr. Timo Mäkinen

School Address: Lauttakylänkatu 22

Town: Huittinen Postal code: 32700

Country: Finland Region: Länsi-Suomi


Website: www.huittinen.fi/lukio/

Telephone: +35825604283 Fax:


Our school is located in agricultural area of western Finland with some agriculture related industry. We have about 200 students with 20 teachers. We have been very active with all types of international projects. We have our own course of Multiculture with a new country as a theme every year. We have taken part as a partner in two Comenius projects so far, first “Think for the Future” in 2008-2010 and “Let’s Play Ecoomics” from 2010 to 2012. In 2010 we also visited Euroscola in Strasbourg and there has been science projects with CERN in Switzerland. In our area we see international exchange not just an opportunity but also an eye-opener for our students. We like to do a lot of team work here and we have a good number of teachers involved with projects. The level of participation of our students is very high, and unfortunately we cannot take all the students for the projects.



We have been thinking a project with connects our students who study mainly for academic studies to real working life. This could be done via mining industry that is rising up not only in our region but in Finland and Europe as a whole. In this project we would measure mining industry with its economical output (employment, development, economical side-effects etc.), impact on environment, impact on cultural life like arts and of course scenery for example after closing down of a mine.

What kind of activities would your school like to develop? We select few mines around our area, new and old ones, and make case studies of them. We will divide our project so that for every meeting we choose a different theme. For example, we and all partners study the economical impact of our mine and compare the results. Then we will measure the environmental issues like pollution and so on. During our visit we would visit one the mines and of course interact with each other in cultural events. Between our meetings we will inform and do the tasks by eTwinning tools or by a common website. Selection depends the skills of our partners. The participating students could see through the project

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a wide selection of possible professions for their career in this industry that has been in decline for decades but it’s now coming back. With our multiangle looking we can realize it is not just mining work, but cultural, economical and environmental professions too that are available.

How many teachers and pupils would your school like to involve? If we are chosen as coordinator, we will take 6 teachers. If not, there will be just 5. Number of students will be between 15 and 20 depending the amount of mobilities in our application.

Please state if you are looking for partners from a specific country: We would like to have one country from southern Europe (Spain, Italy, Greece), one from the western part (France, Netherlands, Belgium, UK), two from central Europe (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia) and one from the eastern central Europe (Romania, Poland, Bulgaria). We and possibly a partner from Sweden or Denmark would represent the Nordic countries.

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Title: Mr First name: Christian Last name: BIDAUD

Position: Professeur de technologie

Country: France


Name of the School: Collège AMBRUSSUM à LUNEL (34)

Type of institution: Collège public

Age of the pupils: 11 à 16 ans

Head teacher: M. Bernard COTTON

School Address: 45 avenue Louis Médard

Town: LUNEL Postal code: 34400

Country: Region: LANGUEDOC ROUSSILLON


Website: http://www.clg-ambrussum-lunel.ac-montpellier.fr

Telephone: 0467715110 Fax: 0467835026

DESCRIBE BRIEFLY YOUR SCHOOL : collège situé en zone rurale et urbaine accueillant 800 élèves âgés de 11 à 16 ans. Des options d’enseignement spécialisés sont disponibles : sport - arts plastiques - langues vivantes. Une section d’enseignement adapté (S.E.G.P.A.) y accueille 72 élèves en grandes difficultés scolaires.



Le projet d’établissement est orienté vers le décrochage scolaire et est principalement mis en place pour les

élèves de S.E.G.P.A. En effet, ces élèves sont pour certains proches de la rupture scolaire du fait du manque

d’encadrement familiale pouvant être dû des fois à l’histoire même de la famille (population gitane – misère

sociale marquée …). Le travail des enseignants consiste à remonter le niveau scolaire de ces élèves, renforcer

les acquis et à redonner confiance en à l’élève afin de trouver avec lui le meilleur parcours de poursuite

d’études vers une voie professionnelle.


Les actions menées au sein de la S.E.G.P.A. concernent directement les élèves et ont une portée intéressante

mais dans certains cas extrêmes elles sont insuffisantes du fait du laisser-aller régnant dans la famille (parents

ne percevant pas ou mal les enjeux de l’école – paupérisation extrême – famille déchirée …). C’est à

destination des familles que des actions peuvent être menées afin d’intéresser les parents au travail scolaire

de leur enfant. Deux actions peuvent être mises à l’essai :

• Les parents à l’école : intégrer des parents dans la classe ou créer un cours pour adultes (alphabétisation –

préparation à des capacités en maths, français, langues, technologie et/ou travail sur un projet spécifique

personnalisé)

• Les parents vis à vis des entreprises : visite d’entreprise de différents secteurs.


10 professeur – 72 élèves – 1 directeur de S.E.G.P.A. – 1 assistante sociale

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Title Mrs / Ms First name: Yasmina Last name: BROSSARD

Position: Specialised Teacher

Country: FRANCE


Name of the School: Collège François Truffaut

Type of institution: Secondary School


Head teacher: Mr CHAMBEROD

School Address: Rue de l’Hôtel de Ville

Town: L’Isle d’Abeau Postal code: 38080

Country: Region: Rhône-Alpes


Website: http://collegeftruffaut-ida.over-blog.com/ http://thesupereuros.over-blog.com/

Telephone: 04.74.27.07.49 Fax:

DESCRIBE BRIEFLY YOUR SCHOOL Our secondary school, called "François Truffaut" is a school situated in an urban area. There are 50 teachers and 600 pupils among whom:

- a class integrated in our school with 10 pupils with special needs (called "ULIS" in French : unit located in inclusive education)

- 4 classes with 16 pupils with learning difficulties (called "SEGPA" in French : section of general education and vocational education)

- Since this year : 2 language sections (English and Spanish) - Foreign languages taught in our school : English – German – Spanish – Italian + Latin

We don’t organize exchanges but school trips : England – Spain – Italy.



We would like to introduce a permit with points to get for the pupils (see the circle below document). Every circle is divided in 4 parts : pupils would color the document when they think that they master the skill.


Projects in process : - Learning support, 2 languages sections, Creating a mini-company - Project leading to the "CAP" (Certificate of Vocational Education) - gardening project

Planned projects : - Disciplinary projects related to the permit-to-point, a school newspaper - A school radio broadcasted on a blog


30 teachers and 300 pupils because all subjects are concerned by the project.

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Title: Mrs First name: CAGNIN Last name: Marie-France

Position: Nancy

Country: France


Name of the School: Emile Gallé

Type of institution: Collège

Age of the pupils: De 11 à 15 ans

Head teacher: M. Bchini

School Address: 20-22 rue De Gaulle

Town: Essey-les-Nancy Postal code: 54 270

Country: France Region: Lorraine


Website: [email protected]

Telephone: 03 83 29 05 88 Fax:03 83 29 91 20


This is an urban college of 500 pupils aged 11 till 15. English, Spanish and Latin teachers organize every year a travel for some pupils. There is a parternship with Germany, too. One of my colleague and I travelled to Finland in 2008 to observe educational methods from this country. The college used to work with others schools from his area : primary school and lycée on reading (and writing) projects. The college would like to create an European section in 2014 (European class)



The main idea of the project is to create several gardens per country whose goals are : - Creating a new, more realistic way of learning for pupils aged 12-13 who intend leaving school early or who

have real learning difficulties. - Increasing motivation and stimulating pupils’ involvement by showing what kind of jobs they can do as a

result of their creations. (garden centre employee, florist, architect, engineer…) - Working on eco-development (water management, recycling…) - Opening pupils’ minds on their own and other cultures by promoting their area and country (aromatic

plants, fruits, art in general…) via the creation of specific and varied gardens (one to show the variety of plants in their area for example, another one to show a French garden…)

- Improving relations between pupils, their families and teachers. - Involving a lot of partners in the project. In this case, pupils are in the centre of the education system and in

the centre of a large International and European project. - Increasing pupils’ self-estime and autonomy via concrete productions which other people from the city

could see. What kind of activities would your school like to develop?

– Our school would like to develop the creation of several gardens. This would involve manual work but also stimulate intellectual capacities (conception of the project etc.). We would like to include all subjects taught in

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our school and with those of the other countries, too. The relationship between the various countries involved in this project is very important because the aim is to compare gardens created by pupils of the other countries with their own gardens, to see what kind other, wealthier areas have, how others have integrated eco-development etc. We would like to have an on-going exchange between all the partners via internet (mail, skype…) and to have pupils travel to foreign countries to admire “foreign” gardens. In this way, we can improve our language skills (English and Spanish). This would involve using new technology : computers, video, photos… in order to show the different stages of the project and of course the end product. We would very much like to welcome foreign pupils and teachers. All these activities are based on a new way of learning with the aim of showing pupils that they can learn in a different way. Remark : teachers of different subject would participate selectively throughout the year.


About 10 teachers from one class.(pupils aged 12-13)

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Title: Mrs First name: BEATRICE Last name: CHAUDERLIER

Position: ENGLISH TEACHER

Country: FRANCE


Name of the School: COLLEGE ROMAIN ROLLAND

Type of institution: STATE COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL

Age of the pupils: BETWEEN 11 AND 15 OR 16

Head teacher: MR MERCEUR

School Address: BD ROMAIN ROLLAND

Town: PONTIVY Postal code: 56300

Country: FRANCE Region: BRITTANY


Website: www.college-romainrolland-pontivy.fr

Telephone: 02 97 25 28 00 Fax: 02 97 25 64 61

DESCRIBE BRIEFLY YOUR SCHOOL :It is located in a city where there are about 15,000 inhabitants but most of the pupils come from the villages around it. There are about 550 pupils whose 70 of them are in SEGPA and 11 are in ULIS; we have experienced the following things: - Some classes of 6ème and 5ème have no results, only their capacities and progress are taken into account but the teachers who want to give them results are allowed to do it. We have done it for five years now. - About 10 pupils of 4ème are chosen according to their results and their difficulties and they go to two vocational High school once a week to learn about different vocational trainings and at the end of the year they go to a small or medium –sized business. We have tried it for a year so it needs to be improved this year. - Last year we visited three high schools to help pupils to build their way of vocational guidance . It will be done this year again. - We go to England once a year. And last year we did e-twinning with the students from our local high school organizing e-mailing and two meetings in English. - There is an exchange with Germany every two years.



It wants to improve its practices to fight against early school leaving and the teachers really want to learn about new strategies. What kind of activities would your school like to develop?

Our school would like to develop extra-curricular activities and contacts with labour market. We would also like to discover other activities preventing early school leaving in other countries. How many teachers and pupils would your school like to involve?

We do not really know but most of the teachers are interested in taking part into this experience but we want to wait for the seminary before really involving.

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Title: Mrs / Ms First name: ISABELLE Last name: DELABYE

Position: COORDONNATRICE MGI

Country: FRANCE


Name of the School: Rectorat de ROUEN

Type of institution:

Age of the pupils: + 15 ans

Head teacher: Vincent AUBER

School Address: CSAIO Rectorat de Rouen 25 rue de Fontenelle

Town: ROUEN Postal code:

Country: France Region: Haute Normandie


Website:

Telephone: 0232089210 Fax:0232089225

DESCRIBE BRIEFLY YOUR SCHOOL(

This project is implanted in professional high schools that are involved in the fight against early school leaving.

The students come from a poor social and economical background in a rural or urban area. Following a report

indicating 350 youngsters left these professional schools between october and march, numerous actions have

been enforced mainly on an educational level.


What does your school want to do? Develop educational and social aid


Actions within the teaching staff so as to Spot Quickly those who might leave school (alert report, wellcome

and evaluation interviews)

Analyse the main elements that lead to early school leaving with comparative studies of high schools, classes and youngsters in order to give answers to early school leaving. Specific groupwork aimed at teenagers who are likely to leave school, within the context of ’’l’accompagnement personnalisé’’ in the first year of professional bac This project is based on activities linking the school staffs, the staff in charge of the problem, the external partners and the families around 3 aims :

- How to adapt to the high school( the place and its rules…) - How to be motivated by the training and the chosen courses (employers may intervene, how to

explain the courses, tutoring) - How to take the youngster’s needs into account( socioeconomical needs, psychological support,

educational aid, remedial course…)


20 teacher or educational staff and 80 youngsters

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Title: Mr / Mrs / Ms First name: DAVID Last name: DESIAGE

Position: Principal adjoint

Country: FRANCE


Name of the School: Collège Maximilien VRECORD

Type of institution: Education

Age of the pupils: 11 à 16 ans

Head teacher: Mme HAMLET ZOUBLIR Suzy

School Address: Rue Conde DAMPROBE

Town: PETIT CANAL Postal code: 97131

Country: FRANCE Region: GUADELOUPE


Website: -

Telephone: 0590 226154 Fax: 0590 226365


Zone rurale – 500 élèves – 11 à 16 ans – aucun projet d’échange européen à ce jour – depuis trois ans des actions de lutte contre le décrochage scolaire sont mis en place dans l’établissement



Un public en décrochage referme sur lui même … sur sa ruralité-son insularité-sa culture créole …. Ouvrir d’autres perspectives- faire entrer et rendre concret l’idée de formation-de mobilité What kind of activities would your school like to develop?

Objectifs du développement de la prise en charge des élèves aux besoins spécifiques : accompagnement individualise – pédagogie du projet – mise en place de l’alternance ‘école-entreprise’ How many teachers and pupils would your school like to involve?

Une équipe pédagogique de classe de 3ème et le principal adjoint – une classe de 3ème spécifique soit 18 élèves Please state if you are looking for partners from a specific country:

Objectif de trouver des partenaires ‘européens’ mais dans la zone caraïbe notamment les îles anglophones

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Title: Mrs First name: DORLEANS SEVERINE

Position: SPANISH TEACHER

Country: FRANCE


Name of the School JEAN MONNET

Type of institution: COLLEGE (SECONDARY SCHOOL)

Age of the pupils: 12-15 YEARS OLD

Head teacher MR MATER GERARD

School Address: 1 PLACE DE L'EUROPE

Town: EPERNAY Postal code: 51200

Country FRANCE Region: CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE


Website

Telephone : 03.26.55.90.50


URBAN SCHOOL - 450 PUPILS - 11 TO 15 YEARS OLD - PAST PROJECTS : COMENIUS 2007/2009 – e-twinning WITH TERUEL (SPAIN) - SOCRATES (SPAIN)


Exchange on foreign cultures



3 teachers +/- 25 pupils

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Title: Mr First name: Christophe Last name: FRANCOIS-CONNAN

Position: Spanish teacher

Country: France


Name of the School: Lycée André MALRAUX

Type of institution: Public High School

Age of the pupils: 15-18 years old

Head teacher: Isabelle KLEPAL

School Address: 1, place Nelson MANDELA

Town: MONTATAIRE Postal code: 60160

Country: FRANCE Region: Picardy


Website: http://etablissements.ac-amiens.fr/0601864a/spip/

Telephone: +33 3.44.64.63.20 Fax: +33 3.44.64.63.23


The lycée André Malraux is an urban high school located in a town of over 12.000 inhabitants. It is a technological and vocational high school, too. There are around 1.200 pupils aged between 15 and 18. The staff has constantly endeavoured to open the lycée to the world: numerous trips abroad and exchanges (England, Spain, Germany and very soon Portugal) have always been successful and motivating for our students who mainly come from underprivileged social classes. The students and the teachers also regularly work with foreign schools through the internet.


WHAT DOES YOUR SCHOOL WANT TO DO?

Our school wants to establish partnership with other schools who share the same difficulties to fight early school leaving, to profit by the experiences of others, to find and develop solutions involving students, parents and staff, to get to know more about european practices helping students to join the working world and to open them to culture.

WHAT KIND OF ACTIVITIES WOULD YOUR SCHOOL LIKE TO DEVELOP?

OUR SCHOOL WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP TRIPS ABROAD AND EXCHANGES AND TO HAVE REGULAR CONTACT WITH FOREIGN SCHOOLS THROUGH THE INTERNET. EVENTUALLY THIS WILL LEAD US TO MORE CREATIVE ACTIVITIES SUCH AS MOVIE MAKING, ACTING, ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN, CREATION OF A WEBSITE...

HOW MANY TEACHERS AND PUPILS WOULD YOUR SCHOOL LIKE TO INVOLVE? AROUND 10 TEACHERS AND BETWEEN 50 AND 100 PUPILS (OR MORE).

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Title: / Mrs / First name: Brigitte Last name: Hardel

Position: Deputy head, responsible of the section of adapted vocational and general education

Country: Nouvelle-Calédonie, New Caledonia

E-mail: [email protected]/[email protected]

Name of the School: Collège des Portes de Fer



Head teacher: M. Robert Hanoufa

School Address: 224 rue Armand Ohlen

Town: Nouméa Postal code: 98800

Country: New Calédonia Region:


Website: http://www.ac-noumea.nc/pdf/

Telephone: 00 687 25 71 71 Fax: 00 687 25 71 72


The Collège des Portes de Fer is an urban school, located in a recently urbanized area, in the far biggest city of New

Caledonia. It’s composed of nearly 800 students, whose multicultural and large ethnic origins create a very stimulating but also complex environment. Part of our children come to the city after a childhood spent in the quite deserted and very green North, or from the Island of Pines, and from the islands of Lifou, Ouvea or Maré, which compose the Loyalty Islands, rather unsullied by any kind of industrial development, and still quite isolated. Il’s often a shock for the teenagers when they have to leave their childhood place, with its imaginary environment, still rich of powerful traditions of the territory, for the city. This urban migration often generates a separation with the nuclear family, and sometimes delinquency, when the kids are abandoned by their foster families, which sometimes happen, because of the difficulty for them of already taking care of the regular children. French is not the mother tongue of most Oceanian people (around 28 languages are present on the territory). Squats are quite numerous in Nouméa, and some of our pupils live there. The district Portes de Fer was recently a calm and easy-to-live-in place, until 5 years ago, when one thousand lodgings were built to accommodate the enlarging flow of people coming down from the North. From a communautarist way of life, people recently and rapidly switched to an individualistic one here in Nouméa, which generated, and still does, a loss of landmarks, and even sometimes acculturation. The problem of early school leaving is thus particularly new in the island. School links were initiated and maintained with nearby countries: Australia and New Zealand particularly. A partnership with the police was signed one year ago, as well as with the Youth and Cultural Center, the Youth Integration Mission, social and health services (inside and outside the school), and families. The aim of all these partnerships is to try and eradicate efficiently early school leaving



We have recently started focusing on the new and increasing problem of early school leaving, and would like to take advantage of the Amiens seminary to gather information and ideas on the topic, to exchange with the participants, and share our own particular but new experience with them.

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In a second time, when back from the seminary, to fuel a real reflection on the topic with the whole school community so as to fight this problem together and place it in our central activities and programmes. What kind of activities would your school like to develop?

Focus on more possible local partnerships, so as to give our pupils a new meaning to their future lives, and to help our school propose motivating perspectives and restore hope for our children suffering from various school or family difficulties, and thus increase the value of school in their minds. Try and work more with the parents. And above all increase the sense of responsibility in all our students, potential early school leaving children as well as successful and motivated ones: we will imagine ways to work with the latter to help the former. We are also having a reflection on the part animals can take in the resolution of early school leaving, and are planning to sign a partnership with one of the three pony clubs present in the area, as well as with a nearby farm, contact with animals seeming an interesting clue to help children practise respect, rules, responsibility and regain confidence in themselves and interest in their school. How many teachers and pupils would your school like to involve?

Teachers, as well as the nurse and social worker, chief supervisor and the whole management team have always been very willing to help our students and are becoming more and more concerned with the recent phenomenon of early school leaving. They are ready to try anything liable to fight against it. We think that we can rely on a good half of our teachers, at the very least. As for the pupils, we will focus on the class representatives, and also try to integrate every one of our pupils willing to be part of our action.

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Title: Mr / Mrs / Ms First name: Sylvie Last name: ICLANZEAN

Position: Head teacher

Country: FRANCE


Name of the School: Collège Henri GUILLAUMET

Type of institution: Mixed comprehensive


Head teacher: Mme ICLANZEAN Sylvie

School Address: 5, place Icare

Town: Jouy-le-Moutier Postal code: 95280

Country: FRANCE Region: Ile-de -France


Website: www.clg-guillaumet-jouy.ac-versailles.fr

Telephone: 0033(0)134435100 Ligne directe(0)134439377


It is an urban mixed comprehensive school located near a big city. There are 600 pupils range from 11 to 15-16 and from underprivileged families: A SEGPA( adapted teaching department) and a ULIS (mentally handicapped pupils department) are integrated to the school.

We used to belong to a Comenius exchange with Romania.



We want to issue a programmets prevent early school leaving for pupils of year 8


We want to take charge of pupils, individually, in order to improve their self-esteen and improve theirs relations with others;


We would involve no more than 10 pupils with a team of voluntary teachers, a psychologist and the career counsellor.

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Title: Mr First name: JAU Last name: Didier

Position: Conseiller Principal d'Education (Guidance Councellor)

Country: FRANCE


Name of the School: College Jean Claude IZZO

Type of institution: Collège Public d'Enseignement secondaire (Comprehensive school

Age of the pupils: 11 to 15

Head teacher: Bernard RAVET

School Address: 2 Place Espercieux

Town Marseille Postal code: 13001

Country: France Region: Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur


Website: www;clg-izzo.ac-aix-marseille.fr

Telephone +33 4 91 01 55 10


Urban environment in the very center of the town. A business neighbourhood but pupils coming from rather poor families.

475 pupils aged 11 to 15 or 16 y.o.

Experiments in professional-aimed classes & a special seven year class for non gifted children (2 groups of 10 children)

Close work with associative environment, social as well as cultural.



Create links and build a sharing-experience project with schools of other countries. Compare ways of dealing with difficulties. Make teams & pupils work (internet, video media or others) to present the school project & the ways to deal with it. Try a comparison. What kind of activities would your school like to develop?

make kids work on their city & region environment, professional environment & share it, compare it with kids of other countries Including the associative school environment. Mix pupils of different abilities to develop team work for kids as well as adults. Travel and meet other schools & kids to present the work. How many teachers and pupils would your school like to involve?

Approx. a pool of 10 teachers would take part to the project, & 30 pupils.

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Title: Mr / Mrs / Ms First name: GAELLE Last name: SAILLE

Position: teacher

Country: france


Name of the School: Lycée des métiers du tertiaire Romain Rolland

Type of institution: Technical school

Age of the pupils: From 15 to 20 years old

Head teacher: M Frédéric Jednack

School Address: Rue Romain Rolland

Town: Amiens Postal code: 80080

Country: France Region: Picardie


Website: http://etablissements.ac-amiens.fr/0801628k/

Telephone: 03.22.43.36.51


The Lycée Romain Rolland is a technical school which provides vocational studies. The studies are mainly

orientated « services » : accountancy, secretary, sales and retail business, customer care, logistics and

transport. The school offers diplomas from level V (CAP = equivalent to a GNVQ in retail business and logistics)

to level IV ( Btec national diploma in accountancy, customer care, secretary, transport, logistics, retail business

and sales). It is an urban school located in Amiens Nord district. (High unemployment rates; social houses,

criminality, underprivileged section of the population). In September 2011, 520 students were registred.

A Few information about the students : 55 % receive a grant, 74 % of the students are issued from

underprivileged social group ( 46 % academic level). They are aged from 15 to 20 years old 60 % are girls.

During the last academic year (2010/2011) : 170 students left school with no qualification

A Few information about the adults :84 teachers 11 administrative workers Community home : 2 education

counsellors helped in their task by 8 school assistants 1 nurse (full time) 1 social worker (full time), 2

counsellors for studies equivalent to a full time

Since 2006, groups of students have had a 4 weeks work placement In Cork. The students are issued from the

retail business section. So we have already experiences with European projects such as Leonardo grant. We

work with a partner in Cork. They provide the beneficiary with host family, work placement and they monitor

our students during their stays.


Since September 2011, 8 teachers have been working together and they have been involved in a new project to struggle early leaving school and absenteeism. The team will have a meeting on Monday 17 October, in order to talk about :

-the students and their project

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-The selection of the students to be part of this experience,

- The difficulties (process, organisation, the curriculum, the student’s project assessment, the monitoring).


- To involve the parents in the struggle against early leaving school - To improve the teachers skills and abilities to detect and prevent early school leaving - To reinforce the link between the curriculum and the vocational training course ( ex : French,

mathematics and accountancy/logistics) - To reinforce the link between the school and the labour market - To link all the actors involved in the early school leaving


- Mentoring or tutoring : pupils - pupils ; pupils –teachers, pupils-tutor in a company - To develop the pupil’s work labour knowledge : jobs, skills, behaviour, the recruitment process .. - Activities in order to increase the pupil standing : to avoid and manage the conflicts, self respect, to

enhance the pupil abilities, tastes and skills.


8 teachers 15 pupils

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Title: Mr / Mrs / Ms First name: Sylvie Last name: WARY


Country: France

E-mail: [email protected] et [email protected]

Name of the School: COLLEGE MARYSE BASTIE

Type of institution: SECONDARY SCHOOL

Age of the pupils: 11 TO 15

Head teacher: Mr Dany ALLARY

School Address: 56, rue Léon Faucher BP 1512

Town: REIMS Postal code: 51068 Cedex

Country: France Region: Champagne Ardenne


Website: http://www.clg-bastie.ac-reims.fr

Telephone: 0326073254 Fax: 0326078977


Our school is situated in the outskirts of Reims. Our pupils (aged 11 to 15) come from different social backgrounds and about 50% meet social problems. Our school was involved in a Comenius project from 2005 to 2008 related to sustainable development and active citizenship. We got a label of quality for our project called “The world in our hands”. We are still in contact with our Spanish partners and some teachers became good friends. We have created links with a school in the United Kingdom thanks to E-twinning since 2006 and we go and visit our English partner every two years. In our school, French as a foreign language, Spanish, English and Portuguese are taught. A small group of pupils and teachers have been involved since 2010 in a project with Burkina Faso, in Africa. It will end in January 2012.



We want to share our experience with other European countries and develop new ideas and new systems to help our pupils. We have been developing an area in the school called “la Passerelle”, in English the footbridge where pupils go and are given one-to-one lessons by teachers and pedagogical assistants. We have developed a tutorial system between younger and older pupils, emphasized learning skills in workshops, tried to improve communication between pupils and teachers in the everyday life in the class. We would like to create individual coaching sessions, create better learning conditions by developing co-teaching and co-learning activities. We think that sharing these ideas with European partners would be very stimulating. We would like to create activities to answer to specific learning problems. We also want to work with the families and create closer links with them.


Just now, we haven’t got a precise idea of the activities that we want to develop, except for reading activities. Our librarian thinks that we could agree on a common reading programme so that our pupils could discover stories from our partners’countries. Our nurse wants to create a “Board game club” to make pupils play together so that they could develop their social skills. Our social worker thinks about activities related to family mediation. Teachers want to reinforce the informal links with the pupils by developing sports activities (badminton). With the “CPE”, some teachers want to develop communicative activities to create a better atmosphere in class. I have the experience of a contact seminar in Poland where we met our partners for our

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former Comenius project and I’m sure that during the seminar, we’ll have new ideas. We need to develop new strategies to prevent early school leaving and by sharing ideas on a European scale, I’m sure we’ll manage.


Between 6 to 8 teachers may be involved and as we have 16 classes, we think that more than half of the pupils may be involved in the project, maybe more, plus the pupils from the special needs. Please state if you are looking for partners from a specific country:

Maybe partners from the north of Europe if possible because they are said to be innovative in this area of early

school leaving, from Portugal because this language is taught in our school, but anyway we are ready to

discover any other European school systems and teaching skills.

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Title: Mrs First name: Regine Last name: Pook

Position: Teacher, organizer international partnerships

Country: Germany


Name of the School: Staatliche Realschule Hirschaid



Head teacher: Karlheinz Lamprecht

School Address: Realschulstr. 2-6

Town: Hirschaid Postal code: 96114

Country: Germany Region: Bavaria (Frankonia)


Website: http://rs-hirschaid.de

Telephone: +49 95 43 4 43 70 90 Fax: +49 95 43 44 37 09 55


Realschule Hirschaid is situated in a rural area about 15 km south of Bamberg (80.000 inhabitants). About 900 pupils from 10 – 16/17 attend this secondary school and leave after passing their O- levels. Most of them then start their vocational trainings others continue studying.

Concerning international projects, we've been doing regular pupils exchanges with Slovenia for more than 10 years now and with Poland.



Expand mentoring services


Improve Personalized mentoring


as many as possible


France

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Title: Mr / Mrs / Ms First name: Franziska Last name: Pyko

Position: Teacher

Country: Germany


Name of the School: Joseph-Beuys-Schule

Type of institution: School for special needs (behavior difficulties)


Head teacher: Mr. G. Dittmann / Ms. I. Buermann

School Address: Jean-Pullen-Weg 1

Town: Neuss Postal code: 41464

Country: Germany Region: Nordrhein-Westfalen, NRW


Website: www.joseph-beuys-schule.de

Telephone: 0049 2131 298790 Fax: 0049 2131 298792




-PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN TEACHERS AND BETWEEN PUPILS

- DEVELOPING A PROGRAM AGAINST EARLY SCHOOL LEAVING/STAYING AWAY FROM SCHOOL BASED ON THE EXPERIENCES OF THE

PARTNERSCHOOLS


- We are looking for an exchange of experience between the different schools/countries

- We would like to develop a plan how we can support our pupils better in visiting school

- We would like to develop a programme with extracurricular education (e.g. domestic economy,

developing projects, experiental pedagogic, adventure based learning, outdoor education, labour

market…)


- ABOUT 20 TEACHERS ARE INTERESTED

- ABOUT 60 PUPILS SHOULD BE INVOLVED (NOT AT EACH MEETING)(AGE 10-17)


Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg (because this countries are close to our school and a meeting between

pupils seems to be easier). But other countries are also welcome (e.g. Poland)

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Title : Mr / Mrs / Ms First name: STYLIANI Last name: LYKOGIANNAKI

Position: ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER

Country: GREECE


Name of the School: 3rd Gymnasium of Heraklio, Crete

Type of institution: Public secondary education institution


Head teacher: Kaloudakis Stauros

School Address: Filellinon and Skepetzi

Town: Heraklio Postal code: 71307

Country: Greece Region: Crete

E-mail: http://3gym-irakl.ira.sch.gr

Website: [email protected]

Telephone: 00302810361015 Fax: 00302810325810


I work at an urban, public educational institution in Heraklio, which has about 600 students in total, aged between 13 and 15 years old. It is the biggest gymnasium in Heraklio, Crete. Every year we implement various cultural and environmental projects, which include the exchange of cultural and educational visits of our students. Also, we cooperate with European organisations from abroad and take part in common activities that require careful coordination as well as team work and reinforce tolerance to difference, develop cultural diversity and strengthen team spirit. THE TARGET GROUP OF MY ORGANISATION CONSISTS OF TEENAGERS AGED BETWEEN 13 AND 18 YEARS OLD. THE MAJORITY OF THEM ARE GREEK, WHO NEED TO KEEP UP WITH ALL THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS AND RAPID CHANGES, BUT THERE ARE SOME IMMIGRANTS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES, AS WELL, WHO TRY TO INTEGRATE SUCCESSFULLY INTO THE MAINSTREAM GREEK SOCIETY. SO, THE MOST IMPORTANT AND AT THE SAME TIME DIFFICULT GOAL OF MY ORGANISATION IS TO CONTRIBUTE TO YOUNG PEOPLE’S GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT AND INDIVIDUAL MATURITY AND TO ENSURE THEIR SOCIAL INCLUSION AND ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN ACHIEVING ALL FORMS OF PROGRESS.

So far, I have taken part in a youth project, concerning the exploration of gender identities and the promotion

of the equality of the sexes. I carried out a challenging project whose purpose was to investigate the factors

that influence and contribute to the formation of gender identity in young people nowadays. In my view, it is

essential to use innovative methods, in order to approach young people, especially those who feel less

privileged and rejected by society, or get more and more isolated, are gradually cut off from the rest of the

world and become marginalized, so that they can be convinced that they can make an important contribution

to youth projects, raise their awareness on global issues and boost their self confidence. Also, last April, I have

participated in an intensive training course about : “Active Participation at local level: Mobility and Activation

of youth, targeted for school dropouts”.



We would like to conduct a survey that will reflect the reality of early school leaving, investigate the reasons for school dropouts and focus on best practices for the prevention of abandoning school. We mainly would like

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to incorporate innovative activities that reinforce social inclusion and establish a safe and friendly environment for our students suitable for unfolding their skills and talents and achieving their dreams and goals. It could be useful to start a campaign for the importance of staying on board all the way and the benefits you gain in the end of your educational journey, as opposed to the very high price you may have to pay later on in your adult life if you make the superficial decision to quit school too soon. Needless to say, at a national level what is required is a government policy that places emphasis on lifelong learning and makes private and public educational institutions more responsive to the students’ increasing aspirations, so as to carry out effective interventions on time to tackle the problem successfully.


A major activity we would like to develop is a questionnaire given to all our students aged from 13 to 15 years old, because children at each age have different priorities and ways of thinking and expressing themselves, so as to offer them the chance to make suggestions and recommendations for future improvement, so that they no longer think they are not taken into consideration and are left out of the decision making process. This questionnaire could be applicable to partner schools of other countries, as well. As soon as our school receives notification about the final outcome of the selection process for a Comenius grant I will send you further details regarding this project we would like to carry out. Our application for a grant has been officially selected for funding, so I am including some more information regarding our potential project. The questionnaire given to the students could focus on two major points: Firstly, “What I have got to offer in my school, in my classmates and in the lessons?” Secondly, “What I want to learn from my school, my classmates and my teachers?” The main aim would be to detect what is lacking from today’s school and what most of the students yearn for, so that we can assure that the students will come first in the new school that is currently being established in Greece by including all different realities of learning approaches in the educational framework and implementing a holistic human rights approach. Hopefully, the process of filling in the questionnaire will initiate more profound thinking and will lead students to the realization that attending school gives them the opportunity to achieve their goals and fulfill their dreams later on in life, so that they will eventually reach the conclusion that if they abandon school they deprive themselves of all that possibility. Through mutual and continuous cooperation with the students we can build bridges of direct communication with them and create the conditions required, in order to remove possible restraints that prevent young people from pursuing their long-term goals and dealing with challenges successfully.


As many as possible. In particular, all the students in the classes I teach, which are about 250, in total. Even though the three years in gymnasium are considered to be obligatory education in Greece, from time to

time we face the problem of school dropouts, which is very serious. Consequently, I am interested in finding

out effective ways to deal with the issue without causing further family friction. I think we need to come up

with innovative ways to motivate teenagers to attend school, because they really want to and not out of

obligation from the state. We have to make them realise that school is beneficial for their individual

development, so that they can appreciate its social role and pedagogical function. The reasons for school

dropouts may vary, since each individual is unique and this intensifies the problem. For example, students

could quit school due to low achievement or under achievement, lack of purpose and proper orientation or

guidance, failure to adjust in the school environment, discouragement or even suppression from the family

etc.

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Title: Ms First name: Aisling Last name: Caffrey

Position: Teacher

Country: Ireland


Name of the School: St. Kevin’s Community College

Type of institution: Second Level Community College


Head teacher: Mr. Pat Lowry

School Address: Fonthill Rd. Clondalkin

Town: Dublin Postal code: 22

Country: Ireland Region:


Website: www.stkevinscc.ie

Telephone: 01- 6266277

DESCRIBE BRIEFLY YOUR SCHOOL : St. Kevin’s Community College is a medium sized school in an urban area (on the outskirts of Dublin City) There is approximatly 350 students. Our students are aged approx. 12-18 but since last yeat the school has been running adult education courses. The school is in a disadvantaged area of dublin and has deis status. there are many programmes running in the school to tackle early school leaving and other problems associated with disadvantaged areas. For example:

LCA (leaving cert applied), an alternative to the traditional leaving cert more vocational/practical, JCSP (junior cert schools programme), an alternative to the traditional Junior Cert, more assessment based, SCP (school completion programme), out of school activities and extra support to encourage students to stay in school, CHEAP (Clondalkin Higher Education Access Programme) grants for study programmes/extra classes for senior students, Access Clondalkin (Like CHEAP but for Junior students), GLUAIS provides mentoring for first year students by sixth year students to ease the transition into second level education

Tutor and yearheads provide day to day support

Care team – Chaplin, guidence councillor and home school liason officer are full time in the school and a psycholigist is available to students

A parents association tries to encourage parents to get more involved in their childs education


What does your school want to do? St. Kevin’s would like to meet other teachers from other schools and find out what they are doing to tackle the problem of early school leaving. We would also like to share ideas and learn about beat practice in this area around Europe What kind of activities would your school like to develop?

St. Kevin’s would like to develop out of school activities with a vocational element. We would like to work on getting parents more involved in the education of their children How many teachers and pupils would your school like to involve?

2 teachers14 children

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Title: Mr / Mrs / Ms First name: Mairead Last name: Holmes

Position: Teacher

Country: Ireland


Name of the School: St. Columba’s College



Head teacher: Ms. Maeve Scully

School Address:

Town: Stranorlar Postal code:

Country: Ireland Region: Donegal


Website: None

Telephone: 0749131246


We are a rural school with approximately 860 students. The age of the pupils range from 12-18. The school has participated in school links projects and student exchange with students from France.



Explore reasons why some students leave school early and develop motivational strategies to encourage same students to complete secondary school education.


Explore new programmes or subjects that might appeal to the unmotivated student.


2-3 Teachers + class of 15 students

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Title: Mr / Mrs / Ms First name: ANN Last name: O’REILLY

Position: GUIDANCE COUNSELLOR

Country: IRELAND


Name of the School: SCOIL CARMEL

Type of institution: SECONDARY SCHOOL


Head teacher: MRS GILLIAN O’CALLAGHAN

School Address: O’CONNELL AVENUE

Town: LIMERICK Postal code:

Country: IRELAND Region:

E-mail:

Website:

Telephone: 061 229511


Scoil Carmel is an all-girls school in Limerick city. We have 310 students aged from 12 to 18. The majority of our students complete secondary education and many continue to third-level. We offer 2 alternatives at senior cycle. The traditional and academic Leaving Certificate and Leaving Certificate Applied which is less academic and more vocationally based. We emphasise the pastoral as well as encouraging academic excellence. We have peer mentoring and learning mentoring programmes.



Firstly learn more about initiatives in other countries and schools. Then methodology about measuring or identifying potential school-leavers. We would like to look at the people and societal influences on early school leavers. We would like to raise awareness on the long-term effects of early school-leaving among students and parents.


We would like to involve parents and all stakeholders in the community. We would like to raise the levels of leadership among the Transition year group and leaving Cert Applied groups and then work with younger students to help inform decision making skills


Possibly 5-10 teachers and while main work will be done by a group of about 20 students we would hope to include most year groups at some stage of project

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Title: Mrs First name: Maria Giovanna Last name: De Maio

Position: Teacher

Country: Italy


Name of the School: I.S.I.S. “Enrico Mattei”

Type of institution: Vocational Secondary school


Head teacher: Mr. Roberto Papa

School Address: Via Settembrini, 12

Town: Caserta Postal code: 81100

Country: Italy Region: Campania


Website: www.mattei.it

Telephone: 0823 321717 Fax: 0823 447024


I.S.I.S. “E. Mattei” is a vocational secondary school, situated in the centre of Caserta, a small town in the south of Italy. It has about 600 students, the majority of which come from low income families. The age of students is 14 to 19.

Among the past projects, we should mention two Comenius multilateral partnerships and various European exchanges with different countries.



Try to find alternative ways of prevention to the problem of early school leaving. This could be done by working in cooperation with other European schools having the same problem, in order to find common strategies.


The activities should be based on programmes supporting the disadvantaged students, giving them more opportunities in the field of training and work experience. This could be done by planning prevention initiatives, suggesting and trying innovative provision and/or different strategies when necessary.

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Title: Mrs / Ms First name: DONATELLA Last name: GIAQUINTO

Position: DOCENTE

Country: ITALY


Name of the School: IPSAR FERRARIS CASERTA

Type of institution: ISTITUTO PROFESSIONALE PER I SERVIZI ALBERGHIERI E DELLA RISTORAZIONE


Head teacher: ANTONIETTA TARANTINO

School Address: Via Petrarca 73

Town: CASERTA Postal code:81100

Country: ITALIA Region:CAMPANIA


Website: www.isisferrariscaserta.it

Telephone: 0823346205 Fax: 0823301878


Our vocational school is in Caserta, a town of about 80000 inhabitants, located in an urban area of about 300000 people, very close to Napoli. The school has more than a thousand students, whose age goes from 14 to 19. Despite the large number of students, the school was born only six years ago therefore no exchange projects have been carried out.



The school wants to give motivation to students at risk, giving them the opportunity to acquire a practical multicultural knowledge about food and beverage in different European countries. The aim is to widen the horizons and to spend the acquired knowledge in possible future working activities.


Our school would like to develop knowledge of typical food and beverage products from our region, including the famous pizza and mozzarella, that are specific from our region, and very tasteful and elegant wines such as i.e. Fiano di Avellino, Aglianico and Greco di Tufo. This will be done through specific courses organized in extracurricular activities.


Four teachers, an assistant and about 25 students


We see as possible partners schools from these following countries: Turkey, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece Hungary; anyway these are not constraints, we are open to any other country

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Title: Mr / Mrs / Ms First name: Jutta Last name: Lessmann

Position: Docente di lingue

Country: Italia


Name of the School: Liceo Margherita di Castelvì

Type of institution: Scuola superiore


Head teacher: Cristiana Piazza

School Address: Manno, 56

Town: Sassari Postal code:07100

Country: Italia Region: Sardegna


Website: www2.mcastelvi.ss.it

Telephone: 079/235170, 079/235162 Fax: 079/2012658


Analisi dei bisogni

Il fenomeno dell’abbandono scolastico costituisce, nell’Istituto cittadino, una percentuale del 30% della ben più ampia e

diffusa situazione di disagio, culturale e sociale, che non sempre culmina nel processo di rottura ma è sicuramente ragione

di risultati mediocri o poco soddisfacenti. Tutto ciò trova ragione anche nell’elevato tasso di pendolarismo, che si attesta

intorno al 70%.Le difficoltà degli allievi nei confronti della scuola si manifestano con la disaffezione, il disinteresse, la

demotivazione, talvolta la presenza scolastica è da essi vissuta più come obbligo sociale, che come bisogno di affermazione

e di crescita personali. Spesso i ragazzi evidenziano atteggiamenti conflittuali e individualistici, sottovalutano il valore

dell’operare insieme e tendono a vivere una situazione incentrata unicamente sul presente piuttosto che sulla complessità

del futuro. Solo pochi di essi possiedono strumenti che consentono di affrontare la complessità del nostro tempo.

La scuola non ne soddisfa il potenziale d'apprendimento: un’organizzazione didattica rigida evidenzia la centralità del

risultato e l’indifferenza per il processo; l’approccio alle discipline è prevalentemente contenutistico e finalizzato

all’acquisizione di sole conoscenze piuttosto che di conoscenze e competenze; poca attenzione è rivolta alle differenze degli

stili cognitivi ed ai percorsi personalizzati. Conseguenze di ciò si colgono tanto nel versante linguistico espressivo che

nell’ordine logico – matematico ed, in generale, nell’incapacità a definire un efficace metodo di lavoro.

Il recente elevamento dell’obbligo d’istruzione rappresenta un’ulteriore esigenza di assicurare ad ogni studente le condizioni

più complete per il pieno sviluppo delle potenzialità di ciascuno. Pertanto, il presente progetto è finalizzato a sostenere i

processi di apprendimento dei giovani attraverso l’eliminazione del disagio scolastico e il loro orientamento nella prospettiva

dell’acquisizione di conoscenze-competenze spendibili in ulteriori esperienze formative, nel lavoro e nella vita adulta.

Modalità di rilevazione impiegate.

I dipartimenti e le funzioni di sistema attraverso l’analisi dei dati

Valutazioni esterne INVALSI ed OCSE PISA, Valutazioni esterne ALMA DIPLOMA

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Le modalità rilevazione impiegate

Questionari di Istituto alunni Questionari di Istituto docenti Questionari di Istituto famiglie Tasso di abbandono scolastico

Trasferimenti a istituti considerati meno impegnativi Ripetenze annuali o pluriennali. Sospensioni del giudizio Analisi dei

risultati degli Esami di Stato.



Gli interventi che proponiamo prevedono l’affiancamento, alle discipline di carattere scientifico, alla matematica, e all’area linguistica-comunicativa, di attività creative per ragazzi, con il coinvolgimento anche delle famiglie in termini di azioni di sensibilizzazione, per rendere più affascinante l’apprendimento delle discipline in oggetto e la loro interdisciplinarietà. Si tratta principalmente di applicazioni pratiche di “laboratori creativi-espressivi” caratterizzati da attività manuali e da un forte arricchimento tecnologico e attrattivo per l’apprendimento. Questi elementi si propongono dunque come apporti di metodologie e strumenti didattici in modo da “rileggere” i contenuti delle materie di riferimento tramite applicazioni basate sull’ambiente circostante e il contesto territoriale, con le sue risorse, in cui si vive.

Le materie coinvolte saranno principalmente quelle scientifiche – linguistiche insieme all'ambito umanistico arricchite da metodologie didattiche, da strumenti, da esperienze professionali esterne, universitarie e di privati, che, sia nell’ambito curriculare che extracurriculare, svilupperebbero nuovi modi di “lettura” e apprendimento.

La modalità ritenuta più consona per dare un contributo alla diminuzione dell’abbandono scolastico è, dunque, quella di muoversi partendo dal mondo che gli stessi alunni conoscono; partendo, ad esempio, per l’area matematica e scientifica, dall’ambiente che ci circonda, scegliendo, nel nostro caso, il tema core della civiltà nuragica sarda e portare tale mondo in altri contesti culturali. Su tale tema ruoteranno infatti le applicazioni pratiche suddette ovvero:

- regole matematiche applicate alla “tecnica di costruzione dei nuraghi”, con il supporto di esperti del settore; - lavorazione dei materiali della terra, della creta, dell’argilla, della ceramica, secondo le tecniche della civiltà

in questione, per capire la chimica e tutto ciò che ruota attorno ai materiali stessi; con la stessa logica si lavorerà il cuoio per arrivare alla costruzione delle antiche maschere sarde. Anche in questo caso gioca un ruolo fondamentale la partnership con un Gruppo di Ricerca su Espressione e Creatività

- approfondimenti sulla “cultura di un popolo” narrata attraverso la tradizione scritta e i resti materiali che colpiscono non solo l’aspetto istintivo ma anche quello intellettivo e spingono a ricercare qualcosa di tangibile che offre ancora di più nuove esigenze di conoscenza e nuovi spunti attraverso metodi scientifici quali l’archeologia, base per costruire la storia del passato.


Alunni 120 insegnanti 30


Germania Francia Spagna

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Title: Mr / Mrs / Ms First name: Edgars Last name: Strelis

Position: teacher

Country: Latvia


Name of the School: Jaundubultu Secondary School

Type of institution: school


Head teacher: Eriks Annuskans

School Address: Lielupes iela 21

Town: Jurmala Postal code: LV-2015

Country: Latvia Region:


Website: www.jaundubulti.lv

Telephone: +371 67760865 Fax: +371 67760865


It’s an urban school with 250 pupils, age of the pupils 7-19 years. Our school is situated in very quiet place in the middle of our town, between Baltic sea ( gulf of Riga) and river Lielupe. This year we complete Comenius project “A Tale Of Six Countries”, we shared our experience with 5 countries: Estonia, Lithuania, Germany, Austria and Spain (Majorca). Also we had some links with school of Saint Petersburg (Russia) and some schools here in Latvia.



We want to create extracurricular program to prevent schoolchildren from early school leaving and introduce

new, more interesting, teaching and learning methods.


The activities will be based on following subject: sport, art, music, foreign languages, IT, handicraft and other. Also we would like to develop active cooperation with pupils’ parents and graduates. We would like to involve

our teachers in many different courses and projects to develop their knowledge’s and get new teaching

methods.


We would like to involve 5 teachers and about 70 pupils.

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Title: Mr / Mrs / Ms First name: Mrs Inga Last name: Kuzaitiene

Position: Teacher

Country: Lithuania


Name of the School: Plutiskiu secondary school of Kazlu Ruda



Head teacher: Irena Kasauskiene

School Address: Kazlu Rudos sav., Plutiskių sen.,Mokyklos g. 4

Town: Kazlu Ruda Postal code: LT-69466

Country: Lithuania Region:


Website: www.plutiskes.kazluruda.lm.lt

Telephone: 370 343 31236 Fax: 370 343 31236


Kazlu Rudos Plutiskiu secondary school is situated in the small village with about 1000 inhabitants. The location is 30 kilometers from Marijampole, 15 km to Kazlu Ruda and about 40 km from Kaunas, so many students have few opportunities visiting musical or art schools, sports centres, museums. For most of them school is the biggest source of knowledge and entertainment. Therefore, students and staff have fewer opportunities to visit interesting places or go abroad. In Plutiskes Secondary school there are 12 pupils that have special educational needs.

About 30% our school’s pupils are from families that need social care. Their parents are jobless and they don't have many possibilities to get it in the future, because they live in a socio-economically disadvantaged area. There are also some students whose parents or one of them work abroad and the grandparents care about grandchildren. Because of difficult social situation children are interested in leaving school early in order to earn some money and help their families.


What does your school want to do? We would like to make the school not only the centre of knowledge but also improve other social and artistic Skills. Attractive and joyful school is our purpose.


All possible creativity in our school is wanted. We also are interested in expressing ourselves using new technologies, dancing, painting, singing and acting. We keen on learning something new of our partners.


Because it’s new experience for us, we will try to involve as much as possible staff and students.

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Title: Mrs First name: RIMTAUTE Last name: MARCIULIONIENE

Position: Social pedagogue

Country: Lithuania


Name of the School: Alytus Putinai Gymnasium

Type of institution: Secondary School (EDU-SCHSec)


Head teacher: Alfonsas Ziukas

School Address: 1, Saltiniu str.

Town: Alytus Postal code: LT-62345

Country: Lithuania Region: Alytus

E-mail: gimnazija@putinai. alytus.lm.lt

Website: www.putinai.alytus.lm.lt

Telephone: +370 315 75586 Fax:+370 315 75585

DESCRIBE BRIEFLY YOUR SCHOOL Alytaus Putinu Gimnazija is located in Alytus town 100 km away from Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. In 2009 our school celebrated the 35th anniversary and gained the name of Gymnasium. There are 53 teachers and 658 pupils in our school, 20 of whom are children with special needs. Approximately 10% of our pupils are from families that parents are living and working abroad. Some pupils belong to families being under the risk of social exclusion. The age of students varies from 14 to 19 (8-12 form). Artistic cultural training is very important in our school which includes dancing, drama, Lithuanian craft, photography, design and technology. At school we carry out a lot of different local projects. The international project experience is not great:

2009-2011 -participation in a Comenius multilateral partnership "Creating Cultural Capitals“. 2009-2011 - Nordplus Horizontal project „ Creation of the Support System Methdology for Work with Social

Risk Families“.

Our main priorities are to expand the activities of an international project based on the development of

pupils’ motivation of learning and sharing teachers’ experience of work with pupils at risk.



We would like to develop the model of early school leaving in cooperation with other European educational institutions as well as to develop and reinforce the creativity of pupils, increase their learning motivation and promote their self-expression by cooperation.


We would like to implement the project activities, which would help to: -promote pupils’ learning motivation; -include pupils’ parents in the process of solving their social- psychological problems; -create a supportive and motivating environment for learning and communication; -improve teachers’ skills in collaboration with other partners, share their experience in the solution of school non attendance problem , the techniques of work with pupils at risk.


10 teachers, 200 pupils

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Title: Ms First name: RAMONA Last name: ŠVELGINAITĖ

Position: Head of Performance Monitoring Section English teacher

Country: LITHUANIA


Name of the School: KAUNAS REGION BABTAI GYMNASIUM

Type of institution: No profit, Secondary school


Head teacher: VIDAS MIKALAUSKAS

School Address: KĖDAINIŲ 48 54329 BABTAI KAUNO RAJONAS LITHUANIA

Town: Babtai Postal code: 54329

Country: LITHUANIA Region: Rural


Website: http://www.babtai.lm.lt/

Telephone: +370 37555212 Fax: 837555212


In Babtai gymnasium we teach pupils aged 11-19 and there are 8 grades (from 5th till 12th), in all 380 pupils altogether. Babtai is environed by other villages and the students from those villages attend Babtai gymnasium.

Our school is located 25 kilometres away from the district centre Kaunas. Babtai is a small town situated by the highway Vilnius-Klaipeda. Its population is 2000 inhabitants. There are forests and the river Nevezis near our small town. Our school is rural, so most of our students are from farmers' families. Some of the farmers are our school supporters. There is Lithuanian Horticultural Institute in Babtai too. Some of our students are from scientists' families. Some students in our school have taken part in and won international science competitions. There are pupils from the foster home which is situated in our town. Lithuania was influenced by economic crisis and the outcome of this - is rising unemployment and welfare recipients' children (about 100 students) and 25 students with special needs. A large number of our students are at risk of social exclusion, because of their families' lack of opportunities to offer their children the possibility to participate in cultural or entertainment activities. In many ways our school is not only an education provider for our students, but it is also a development centre with social, cultural and informative functions.

We develop the European dimension taking in different national and international projects and activities. We took part in multilateral Comenius Project "Save My Energy" in 2007-2009 and Comenius 3 project (Elos: Europe as a Learning Environment in Schools" in 2008 (No.16982). The students had the opportunity to develop communication skills, and the teachers developed pedagogical practices. Our gymnasium is taking part in projects of the facility development of Natural Sciences and Technics.



THE PROJECT COULD BE NAMED “TOGETHER WE CAN FIND THE SOLUTION”. THE AIM IS TO DEVELOP PERFORMANCE OF SCHOOL

NON - ATTENDANCE PREVENTION. IN ORDER TO REACH THIS AIM WE FOCUS ON THE FOLLOWING :

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� TO PRESENT THE STUDENTS THE DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES OF EUROPEAN CULTURES; � TO IMPLEMENT BULLYING AND ADDICTION PREVENTION; � TO MOTIVATE THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN STUDENTS AND TEACHERS; � TO INTENSIFY SUPPORT PEDAGOGICALLY NEGLECTED CHILDREN INVOLVING THEM INTO SCHOOL ACTIVITIES; � TO TEACH THE STUDENTS THE MAIN THINGS THAT THEY WILL NEED IN THEIR FUTURE CAREER. � TO DEVELOP STUDENTS’ CREATIVITY.


Students will use knowledge of geography, history, social sciences, computer science, the arts. According to the tasks they will do researching work, will create the project song, logos, will do presentations and create short movies. The main themes could be:

� Historical Relations Between Countries – partners; � What do we need to be successful in the labour world? � Sustainable energy, environment protection, the regional varieties of ecological problems and the

individual role of students in this;

� Healthy living;

� Addiction prevention;

� Bullying prevention, tolerance.


Directly 12 students and 12 teachers will be involved but indirectly all the school will be involved.

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Title: Mrs First name: Hilde Marie Last name: Olsen

Position: Teacher

Country: Norway


Name of the School: Vestby videregående skole

Type of institution: Upper secondary school


Head teacher: Per Hedum

School Address: Postboks 183 Noreveien 2

Town: VESTBY Postal code: 1541

Country: Norway Region: Akershus


Website: vestby.vgs.no

Telephone: +4764983700 Fax: +4764973801


Our school is the only upper secondary school in Vestby, a county with nearly 15000 inhabitants. We are situated 50 kilometres outside Oslo. The pupils have a free choice of schools in the bigger Follo region, so we also get pupils from other counties. We have about 650 pupils (16-19 years of age), and offer both the study program leading to admission to higher education and various vocational programs. Earlier we have participated in various exchange programs, both connected to language and culture and the vocational programs.


What does your school want to do? We would like a common international project together with the lower secondary schools in the Vestby area with focus on early school leaving. We would like to exchange ideas about early school leaving seen in connection with the total picture of 13 years at school and establish a pilot project with participants from two different countries. What kind of activities would your school like to develop?

We would like to develop methods and creative ideas to work against early school leaving, and learn from each other’s more or less successful attempts. For example we could consider a compulsory 10 hour course for parents where we focus on the role of the parent and the importance of cooperation between pupil, parents, school and local community. We wish to welcome representatives from local businesses into our school and initiate a teamwork that can open up for increased use of practical work/work practice for pupils.


We would like this to be an exchange of teachers, and are not planning to involve pupils at this stage. We want to establish a group of three teachers from each school, one upper secondary and two lower secondary schools.


We wish to cooperate with a country from Eastern Europe, because the (vocational) construction department at our school has previously cooperated with schools in Lithuania through “Nordplus”. Spain is also an option, or Germany, as we have contacts from the “Do it!-project”. This all depends on the contacts that will be established at the seminar

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Title: Mr / Mrs / Ms First name: Kåre Last name: Solvang

Position: Education manager

Country: Norway


Name of the School: Vestby community

Type of institution: School administration

Age of the pupils: 12 - 15

Head teacher:

School Address: Post box 1444

Town: Vestby Postal code: 1541

Country: Norway Region:


Website:

Telephone: +47 47469025 Fax: +47 64980201

DESCRIBE BRIEFLY YOUR SCHOOL:

I represent two secondary schools in Vestby municipality. Each of the schools have a number of pupils of about 300 in 3 grades. Students have the age of 12 - 15 years. Schools working with early intervention for those students who are at risk of dropping out of school. Schools in several projects among other things, a national project on "Improving the learning environment" and "New possibilities" is a project to give students an alternative education so that it prevented early school leaving.

New possibilities - Successful completion in Upper Secondary Education and Training is a national task to

increase the successful completion of Upper Secondary Education and Training.



We want to look at how other countries in Europe are doing with the challenge. Dropping out is physical in high school, but the cause of apostasy, we believe happens much before. What can be done to help students complete high school and vocational schools.


We believe that a project should be largely the teacher level, but a combination with any small groups of students How many teachers and pupils would your school like to involve?

4 teachers and 10 – 15 students

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Title: Mrs First name: Anna Last name: Bartoniek-

Lewandowska

Position: Teacher

Country: Poland


Name of the School: Zespół Szkół Ekonomiczno-Usługowych

Type of institution: Vocational Technical High School


Head teacher: Dr Urszula Warczok

School Address: ul. św Józefa 30

Town: Rybnik Postal code:44-200

Country: Poland Region:Silesia


Website: www.zseu.pl

Telephone: +48 32 422 36 63 Fax: +48 32 422 35 49

DESCRIBE BRIEFLY YOUR SCHOOL Our school is urban, there are about 1000 students in the age from 15 to 20. We have been taking part in following projects:

Wymiana Transgraniczna:

− System podatkowy a działalność gospodarcza w Czechach i w Polsce

− Polsko-czeskie Igraszki Kulinarne: praktyki zawodowe

− Z ekonomią na codzień

Leonardo da Vinci:

− Być hotelarzem w Saragossie i nie tylko

− Hotelarstwo po obu stronach Pirenejów

Comenius:-Europe Our Common Home



We would like to exchange the ideas how to stop the students from leaving the school early. We also would like to find solutions how to prevent this problem.


Meetings, workshops, programmes to make things better.


About 6 teachers and 60 students.

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Title: Mrs First name:Renata Last name: Kapica

Position: teacher

Country: Poland


Name of the School: Gimnazjum 121

Type of institution: Junior High School

Age of the pupils: 13-16- year-old

Head teacher: Wanda Walkowiak

School Address: Ul. Płużnicka 4,

Town: Warsaw Postal code:03-184

Country: Poland Region: woj.mazowieckie


Website: www.gim121wawa.edupage.org

Telephone: +48228112608 Fax: +48228112608


This is an urban lower secondary school. There are 440 students aged 13-16. We have not participated in any Comenius project yet but we would love to. We cooperate with a German school but this is not a Comenius project.



We want to increase the students’ motivation for learning What kind of activities would your school like to develop?

IT COULD BE DRAMA, PREPARING A GUIDE OR LEAFLETS, PREPARING A SURVEY, using ICT and any other activity(we are open-minded) How many teachers and pupils would your school like to involve?

All students ( 440) and 20 teachers Please state if you are looking for partners from a specific country:

any countries- there can be: France, Portugal, Sweden or Norway, Bulgaria, Latvia, Italy or Spain.

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Title: Mr / Mrs / Ms First name: DARIUSZ Last name: MARKIEWICZ

Position: TEACHER

Country: POLAND


Name of the School: ZESPÓŁ SZKÓŁ IM. JANA PAWŁA II W SIEWIERZU

Type of institution: PUBLIC UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL


Head teacher: KRZYSZTOF BĘDKOWSKI

School Address: Ul. Kościuszki 15

Town: Siewierz Postal code: 42-470

Country: Poland Region: Śląsk


Website: www.lo.siewierz.pl

Telephone: ++48 +32 6741612 Fax: ++48 +32 6742012

DESCRIBE BRIEFLY YOUR SCHOOL My school is situated in a small town - Siewierz with 6.ooo inhabitants and it is also easily accessible to the students living in the nearby villages. We have about 140 students at the age of 16-19. Our school successfully completed Comenius project entitled “ICT in Contemporary European Education – Effective School Development” in 2005 – 2008. Working over the project our teachers and students had the opportunity to exchange their experiences in using new technologies during their lessons. We organized students’ exchanges with a partner school from Italy twice too.

Every year we try to invite teachers from different countries to our school to give our students an opportunity for natural communication in English. We would like to create European dimension in local education and it is why we have decided to take part in the contact seminar in France.



We are interested in finding partner schools not only for one comenius project but to create grid of partners to be able to organise students exchanges, job shadowings for teachers and events for local communit together. we aim to create school in which communication in english and using ict will be standard for every subject.


We have very good experience in using new technologies on lessons and we are interested in continuing our activities in this area of school life. Our vision of project is connected with using Web 2.0 technology in cooperation with partner schools. We would like tocreate such final products like: news magazine, multimedia presentations, web sites, films, etc. in international teams of students and teachers. We can prepare workshops about proffesional software useful in project for partners too as an one of element in common action plan. we hope that world of new technology will be interesting as a topic for young generation. We do hope to make school and education closer and more friendly, expecially, for students with problems . How many teachers and pupils would your school like to involve?

We plan to involve all teachers and students from our school in the project. It may involve about 140 students and about 15 teachers.

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Title: Mrs First name: Rita Last name: Andrade

Position: Training and Communication Director

Country: Portugal


Name of the School: Proinov, Consultoria em Gestão, Formação e Multimédia, Lda

Type of institution: P85.32 – Technical and Vocational Secondary Education


Head teacher: Rita Andrade

School Address: R. Bispo, 42 – 1º

Town: FUNCHAL Postal code: 9000-073

Country: PORTUGAL Region: Madeira


Website: www.proinov.com

Telephone: +351 291 206350 Mobile +351 965028610


Proinov is a small city school located in Portugal, in the sunny Madeira Island. This year (2011-2012) we have 8 courses with pupils from 15 to 25 years. Daily there are around 140 pupils in our vocational training school (ICT´s; Multimedia and commercial areas). We have good experiences with projects, for example, this year we are finishing a Comenius project (name [email protected]) with several European countries. We also have experience with Gruntvig projects.



Find partners to work in the following kind of areas: - fight against (early) school leaving, especially in this ages (15-25); - try the use of ict´s, to motivate pupils – we are already using Moodle (LMS platform), but we would

like to make a reflexion in this area and to know the reality of other professional and vocational schools;

- contact with experiences with “second life” in training; - know and have contact with (good) experiences of other countries;


share experiences; visit other countries to see the implementation of good practices in these areas (fight against school leaving); demonstrate our experiences concerning the use of moodle, second life. Promote the communication among partners using webinars, skype sessions, etc. How many teachers and pupils would your school like to involve?

It depends on the project, around 4 teacher and 4 pupils. Please state if you are looking for partners from a specific country

We are open to all Europe Countries, but we would like to find a Spanish partner; an Italian partner (from bigger cities), Poland, Czech Republic; Holland, England, (...).

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Title: Mr / Mrs / Ms First name: GRACINDA Last name: DIAS

Position: FRENCH TEACHER / ADJOINTE DE LA DIRECTRICE

Country: PORTUGAL


Name of the School: Escola Secundária de Santo André

Type of institution: Secondary

Age of the pupils: 15/18

Head teacher: Arlete Cruz

School Address: Av. Fuzileiros Navais – Quinta da Lomba

Town: Barreiro Postal code: 2830

Country: Portugal Region: Setúbal


Website:

Telephone:


It´s an urban school in Lisbon surroundings. The school population is composed by 800 pupils studying at daytime and 200 adults with a night timetable, about 200 teachers and 50 employees. It’s a very dynamic school with an ambitious educative project where all the actors are willing to achieve its goals.The building is new and it has very good work conditions for pupils and teachers. The school has already been involved in Comenius, Leonardo Da Vinci and Grundwig projects. We have classes of Sciences and Technology, Humanities, Arts, Economic Sciences and professional courses.



This theme is particularly interesting for us because some years ago we had a bigger number of early school leaving pupils. My school wants to develop a project on this theme to share experiences with different partners, to fight together against early school leaving, because each country has certainly good practice examples.

What kind of activities would your school like to develop? Activities to prevent the risk of early school leaving in professional courses: for this we need the collaboration of experts ( psychologists, tutors) and pupil’s parents. About working inside school we would like to develop motivating activities to keep the interest of pupils on their subject studies because these ones would be very important to their professional future.


Some teachers and pupils of professional courses

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Title: Mrs First name:Maria Angela Last name: Evangelista

Position: Principal

Country: Portugal


Name of the School: Escola Básica e Secundária de Muralhas do Minho, Valença


Age of the pupils: Between 10-18

Head teacher: Maria Ângela de Lima Evangelista

School Address: Av. da Juventude

Town: Valença Postal code: 4930-599

Country: Portugal Region:


Website: http://www.eb23-valenca.rcts.pt

Telephone: 00 351 251809760 00 351 935353926


“Escola Básica e Secundária de Muralhas do Minho” is a public secondary school located in northern Portugal, in a small town called Valença, a socio-economically disadvantaged area. Our students are between 10-18. Most of our students come from rural areas for that reason they don´t have equal opportunities compared with students from urban centers. In our school there are some students with special education needs who are very well integrated in our ordinary classes. Apart from these ones we have some students who aren't as good as their peers in educational activities and unfortunately we have here some situations of educational failure and school dropping out, because of the lack of participation of parents on their children's educational life. Some of the students are brought up in families with financial problems, in families in which parents are unemployed. We have also students coming from East Europe, South America (Brazil, Colombia, etc...) apart from our local students. So, we think it is extremely important for them to take part in the partnership Comenius, since it can give them the opportunity to travel abroad, communicate with other students from foreign countries, exchange experiences, cultural knowledge, way of seeing life and acquire and improve their language communication skills, among others, as well as giving them a broader vision of the world we live in

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My school would like to participate actively in this project, contacting with other experiences that may contribute to a new approach to school dropout; additionally, we would like to gather relevant information in order to tackle the problem, namely through the sharing of good practices to be applied in the school context.


Our school aims at organizing individual meetings with youngsters so as to identify their concerns and, consequently, devise a support plan that is both adequate and adapted to the youngsters and their families’ needs. The plan would give priority to pedagogical methods based on work with both small groups and individual work (about specific problems) and seminar work. We would like to work on the parent participation and to involve some local authority to encourage teachers and parent work together to ensure better services for children with problems.

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The school will work with around some 20 tutoring teachers and approximately 300 pupils.

Please state if you are looking for partners from a specific country

We are looking for partners which could work together with us to achieve our goals. It could be some partners

from Hungary, France, Italy or Germany. This could be privileged partners.

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Title: Ms First name: AIDA-MIHAELA Last name: GRECU

Position: HEAD OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT

Country: ROMANIA


Name of the School: GRUP SCOLAR INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTII DE MASINI "DACIA"

Type of institution: PUBLIC


Head teacher: MRS. DANIELA TANASE

School Address: str. HENRI COANDA, nr.4

Town: PITESTI Postal code: 110439

Country: ROMANIA Region: ARGES


Website: www.grupscolardacia.ro

Telephone: 0040248212334 Fax: 0040248212334


Dacia Technological High School is a public educational institution which gives its students great perspectives on life: good conditions for improving their professional and social skills as well as a well- trained staff that plays an important part in their guidance. Our high school aims to promote students’ involvement in instructive – educational activities as well as in cultural ones because our purpose is to develop their personality, their entrepreneur, artistic and civic spirit. Being located near the centre of Pitesti - the residence town of the Arges county, it attracts its school population not only from all the districts of the town, but also from its neighbouring rural settlements. Not only does my high school offer access to a high-standard education to pupils belonging to different walks of life, but it also provides equal chances to making progress to all the students attending its courses. In addition to this, it is a mixed school even if most of the students we teach are boys. Due to its nearly central position, Dacia Technological High School represented by its manager and staff has a good opportunity to settle agreements with different firms in the technological field; thus the students in our high school can put into practice all the theoretical knowledge they are introduced to during classes. Besides developing their technological skills, we pay much attention to their social and European integration

which is best helped by their mastering of a foreign language, especially English, because it is of much use in all

fields and in all the corners of the world. The entire school population is made up of non-English speaking

students.

Our school has been involved in several eTwinning projects so far both as a coordinator and as a partner. Besides this, we are developing a Multilateral Comenius Project at the moment with 5 other European partners. It is in its second year, so we would be glad if we could set up a new partnership dealing with combating failure in education.



We want to set up a project addressing 14 to 19 year-old students from socially disadvantaged backgrounds meant to prevent school drop-out and keep in the educational system the students at risk, especially those from rural areas, poor families or having parents that work abroad by means of developing and implementing

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strategies, measures and specific educational tools. The project will meet the needs of students at risk through their participation in a variety of alternative educational programs with recreational and remedial character which supports them in: getting a minimal level of communication and networking capacity, catching up in learning, facilitating communication with parents working abroad, developing the digital tools as well as social and emotional skills. The project activities will foster the quality of formal and non-formal education in my school by means of improving the school climate. The extracurricular activities in our compulsory curricula will overlap those in the project in order to make students feel comfortable, respected, responsible, confident and motivated to carry on learning. The communicative and networking project activities will produce significant progress in the teacher-student, students-student, student-parent, parent-teacher relationships, thus reducing absenteeism.


WHAT MY SCHOOL WANTS TO FOCUS ON IS A MULTILATERAL PARTNERSIP AIMING AT REDUCING SCHOOL

LEAVING.


WE WOULD LIKE TO INVOLVE AS MANY STUDENTS AND TEACHERS AS THE GRANT FOR A COMENIUS PARTNERSHIP AFFORDS US. Please state if you are looking for partners from a specific country:

IF POSSIBLE, BUT NOT NECESSARY, WE WOULD LIKE TO COOPERATE WITH: FRANCE, FINLAND, NORWAY,DENMARK, SWITZERLAND, BELGIUM, ITALY, LUXEMBOURG, MALTA, SPAIN, NETHERLANDS, CYPRUS

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Title: Mrs First name: GRATIELA Last name: PADUROIU

Position: TEACHER

Country: ROMANIA


Name of the School: SCHOOL “SF. VASILE”

Type of institution: GENERAL SECONDARY

Age of the pupils: 7-15 YEARS OLD

Head teacher: OVIDIU MARIAN IONESCU

School Address: BD. REPUBLICII NR.145

Town: PLOIESTI Postal code: 10072

Country: ROMANIA Region: PRAHOVA


Website: www.ssv.ploiesti.ro

Telephone: +40244-595954 Fax:


It is an urban school, situated in the city centre, evaluated as the best lower secondary school in town. It has around 900 pupils. Our educational staff is constantly preoccupied with personal development and many have attended Comenius and Grundtvig courses. Our school was involved in one Comenius Regio Project in 2009-2011 with Bulgaria.



Generate positive attitudes supporting staying in school and equal rights fulfilment. Analyze possible ways of solution and share them among our communities contributing to others with our own experiences. Collect all the contributions and experiences in a final publication in English.


Detect and identify causes for early school leaving in each community. Analyze and study the ones we consider most important in our community. Compare and share the results.


6 teachers and 10 pupils

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Title: Mr First name: Alberto Last name: Abete

Position: Teacher

Country: Spain


Name of the School: IES Balmaseda BHI


Age of the pupils: 12- 18

Head teacher: Mr Ignacio Galicia

School Address: C/ del Bosque, 10

Town: Balmaseda Postal code: 48800

Country: Spain Region: Euskadi (Basque Country)


Website: http://www.iesbalmasedabhi.com

Telephone: 94 680 02 36 94 680 12 01

DESCRIBE BRIEFLY YOUR SCHOOL :

IES Balmaseda is a secondary school comprising the four levels of compulsory secondary education (ages 12 to 16, 188 students) and both years of post-compulsory education (249 students) . We teach the three linguistic models (Basque, Spanish, and mixed).

Balmaseda is a small historical town (over 7,300 inhabitants), head of a rural area called “Encartaciones” and usually termed the “furniture capital” because of its main industry. It is about 30 kms. away from Bilbao.

The school has no prior experience with European projects, and are taking our first steps with this contact seminar.



We are interested in learning from other projects which might help us develop new srtrategies to deal with early school leaving. We are already facing new challenges due to a growing immigration and the economic crisis.


We would like to develop multilateral or bilateral exchanges, or even online partnerships, but, as we are just

starting, any suggestion would be welcome


The number of teachers could range from 2 to 5 (initially)and the number of students would very much depend on the type of projects we get involved in (4 students in the trilingual group from 1st year ESO, 16 from 4th year, 17 from the multilingual Batxilergo…)

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Title: Mr / First name: ALFONSO Last name: ACEBAL

Position: conseiller pédagogique

Country: SPAIN


Name of the School: I.E.S. Nº 1 DE GIJÓN

Type of institution: SECONDARY SCOOL (COLLEGE et LYCEE)

Age of the pupils: 12 /18

Head teacher: JULIÁN DIZY GARCÍA

School Address: PUERTO VEGARADA S/N.

Town: GIJÓN Postal code: 33207

Country: SPAIN Region: ASTURIAS

E-mail: [email protected] ; [email protected] .

Website: www.ies1.com

Telephone: +34985383100 Fax: +34985146366

DESCRIBE BRIEFLY YOUR SCHOOL Urban school, high school students and vocational training. Age 12 to 18 in the secondary and 15 to 21/23 in vocational training. 2005-2008: Comenius acción1: Ways of improving student’s autonomie and initiative in the learning process”.

Leonardo Project, Ergane projecta and Erasmus project.



Reduce early school leaving. Introduction of actions to reduce early school leaving before the end of compulsory education. to increase the number of students who pass the compulsory education. to settle a cooperation network among european schools to develop together actions and performances that help students to reach basic competences.


With students: Campaigns to fight early leave Questionnaire to analyse the causes od early leave TO BRING THEM CLOSER TO THE NEEDS OF THE LABOUR MARKET: VISIT COMPANIES, WEB WORKS, STUDY KEY COMPETENCES FOR DIFFERENT PROFESSIONS, INCREASE THE COMPETENCES: INFORMATION TREATMENT AND DIGITAL COMPETENCE, SOCIAL COMPETENCE AND CITIZENSHIP, COMPETENCE TO LEARNING TO LEAR AND AUTONOMY AND PERSONAL INTIATIVE COMPETENCES, TO DEVELOP A BLOG ON EARLY SCHOOL LEAVE .SPECIFIC PROGRAMMES: CURRICULAR DIVERSIFICATION / INITIAL VOCATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMME, VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE PROGRAMME. TRAINING IN PROFESSIONAL DECISION MAKING. WITH TEACHERS: MONITORING EARLY SCHOOL LEAVE, TUTORIAL PLAN, COORDINATION AND SPECIFIC PLANNING SESSIONS WITH STUDENTS. GUIDANCE TRAINING FOR OPIRIONS IN EDUCATION SYSTEM, DOCUMENTARY RESOURCES BASE WITH PARENTS: INFORMATIVE SESSIONS

FOR STUDENTS UNDER RISK OF EARLY SCHOOL LEAVE, CLINICAL SESSIONS AND MONITORING BY GUIDANCE

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TEACHER, TRAINING IN NETWORK SECURITY

WITH COMMUNITY: LOCAL PLAN FOR EARLY SCHOOL LEAVE PROJECT: WE-SATY IN COOPERATION TOGETHER WITH THE PSYQUIATRIST, UNIT FROM OVIEDO UNIVERSITY How many teachers and pupils would your school like to involve?

STUDENTS: SECONDARY COMPULSORY EDUCATION STUDENTS BASIC AND INTERMEDIATE VOCATIONAL TRAINING STUDENTS TEACHERS: VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE DEPARTMENT, COMPULSORY SECONDARY EDUCATION HEAD OF STUDIES, VOCATIONAL PROGRAMMES & PLACEMENT HEAD OF STUDIES, ADMINISTRATOR AND TUTORS AND TEACHERS WORKING WITH SECONDARY EDUCATION STUDENTS AND BASIC & INTERMEDIATE VOCATIONAL PROGRAMMES;ALTOGETHER 31 PEOPLE.


- IRELAND, UNITED KINGDOM, MALTA, FRANCIA

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Title: Mr / Mrs / Ms First name: MARÍA LUISA Last name: MARCH BLASCO

Position: Head of Department. Guidance Counsellor Secondary School.

Country: SPAIN


Name of the School: I.E.S. VIRGEN DE VALME

Type of institution: PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOL


Head teacher: Dª CARMEN PONCE ALBERCA

School Address: AVDA. RAMÓN Y CAJAL S/N

Town: DOS HERMANAS. SEVILLE Postal code: 41700

Country: SPAIN Region: ANDALUCIA


Website:

Telephone: 00 34 955623268/64 Fax:00 34 955623269


I.E.S. Virgen de Valme is a school located in an urban area. 1000 pupils and 70 teachers distributed in different levels: Basic Secondary, Upper-Secondary, Vocational Training and Adults. Some of our students have socio-economic difficulties and the unemployment is a big problem for them. Previous Projects: Comenius 2009-2011 “European Cultural Awareness Project”. E-Twinning projects for many years. Links with Italy, Greece, England,... Exchange with Slovenia (Maribor).



We believe that this project could open to our pupils many opportunities to understand the European Dimension of education, sharing customs and cultural backgrounds, making them conscious about the importance to be able to communicate with other students learning foreign languages and practising in a real context. Our project is related to know the main European personalities in different areas: sciences, arts, philosophy, music... through the streets of the cities involved in it. Making itineraries to know different European characters not only from our country but the other partners.


1. English and foreign language. Enhancing multiple codes of expression and communication (e-pal links, letter and text writing, speaking and listening). 2. Mother tongue. Language awareness, presentations, letter writing, discussions, information boards, role play... 3. Computer Science. Use of computers for word processing, text presentations, documentation, images, e-mails, creation of website/blog, video-recording... 4. History. Comparative use of historical research material (history of places, jobs, music/dance) 5. Geography. Understanding and comparison of natural/social environment, locality study (features, settlement, weather, agriculture). 6. Arts. Activities connected to painting, posters and photography discovering (local places, buildings, monuments, jobs, dance charts...).

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7. Music. Songs and lyrics related to the topics. 8. Biology. Activities connected to measures to preserve places. 9. Guidance. Opportunities in the future.


Comenius team: 5 teachers and 15-20 students directly involved and their families. 40-50 students participating in an indirect way: surveys, expositions ...

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Title: Mr / Mrs / Ms First name:Mr. İbrahim Last name: Altuntaş


Country: Turkey


Name of the School: Karşıyaka Anadolu Lisesi

Type of institution: General secondary school


Head teacher: Ayşegül Özkaraduman

School Address: Karşıyaka Mahallesi Terakki sokak No 2 Canik/Samsun

Town: Samsun Postal code:55080

Country: Turkey Region: TR8 Batı Karadeniz


Website:

Telephone: Fax:


It is an urban school located in Samsun in the north part of Turkey. Samsun is the laegest city of the region and also an economical and cultural centre of the region. We have 850 students aged 14-18 with 55 teachers.



My school wants to prepare a project for 2012-2014





Italy, Spain, Sweden, Lithunaia, Czech Republic,Germany,England

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Title: Mr First name: ALİ Last name: DURAN

Position: ENGLISH TEACER

Country: TURKEY


Name of the School: ATATURK PRIMARY SCHOOL

Type of institution: PUBLIC


Head teacher: MR. ALİ OSMAN KURT

School Address: ŞEHİRÜSTÜ MAH. İBNİ SİNA CAD. MERKEZ

Town: MERKEZ Postal code: 05100

Country: TURKEY Region: BLACK SEA


Website: http://amasyaataturkioo.meb.k12.tr/

Telephone: + 90 358 218 13 78 Fax: + 90 358 218 13 78


We are educating at an urban school but most of the parents are related to any rural region in anyway. We have 680 pupils between the age 7 – 15. We are interested with the comenius projects but we need some guidance.

I am working as an English Language Teacher at Atatürk Secondary School in Amasya in Turkey for 7 years. In addition, I am working as eTwinning Ambassador of Amasya and organize eTwinning activities.

When it comes to the Early School Leaving, we have problems in our school with early school leaving. Our students don't give enough importance to education and they get lower secondary level qualifications. Therefore, they cannot continue to higher education. I really give importance for this problem and I have done much investigation about it. I have studied the books , "A Career Development Curriculum for Secondary School Students" and "Early occupational awareness program". Early School Leaving is not only problem but it is among the most problematic ones and it affects our education targets. I can write a lot of reasons but I want to mention the most important ones and they are the problems that I want to solve or improve. The first reason is our students don't have a global worldview for the future and they don't know what they will have if they go on their education or they don't know what they will lose if they don't. They don't have many people who have targets for the future around them and when we say them you will have a better life conditions and good jobs if you go on higher education, they think that we are telling stories for them. Most of the students' parents don't have any job career, except a few parents, and they earn their's keep difficult to live. So, they cannot guide their children for the future and they cannot see future problems if their children don't go on higher education. Some parents are farmers and they live in villages in certain months of the year. They take their students to the village to help them when they work in the field. The students cannot go to school during these days and they cannot get enough education. The students think that the life is only their village, their homes and their city. I sometimes tell them about other countries, they feel it is impossible to see these countries, also they think it is the same thing to go abroad or to travel the space. Among the our last ten years graduated students, there are a few students go to university. Most of them don't go on university education.

I believe that if we show a target to students for the future, they will certainly want to reach it. As teachers, we should try to improve these problems.


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What does your school want to do? & What kind of activities would your school like to develop?

My project topic is " Focus on the future". I target to gain to students future occupational targets and they don't leave the school early. I will introduce occupational opportunities for my students. We will compare these with other countries. I will show them what a doctor does in Turkey and other countries, or any other job, engineers, teachers, managers. I want to create an awareness about the future. Also, I want to add the word "future" to my students' agenda. When I ask my students, what will you do in the future, most of them say " I don't know". This is a very dangerous answer for this question because a young person may do bad things if he/she doesn't know what he/she will do in the future. I need some extra ideas for my project and I am sure I can find better ones if I have chance to attend this contact seminar. There will be a lot of ideas to solve these problems and I need to discuss it with different colleagues. When I checked the seminar agenda, I saw that it is very suitable. I have some ideas but I need extra ones and some partners for my project. I have been trying to contact with schools via internet, it is really difficult to share the ideas , to understand each other, to give different ideas each other, to add something each other via net. I need to face to face communication. I also want to organize an eTwinning project with the same topic.


We would like to involve at least 20 teachers and 300 students in this project idea.

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Title: Ms First name: Senay Last name: OZTURK

Position: English Teacher

Country: Turkey


Name of the School: Kirimli Ismail Rustu Olcay Anadolu Lisesi

Type of institution: General Secondary School


Head teacher: Kemal Elmas

School Address: Merkezefendi Mah. Sabri Obenik Sok. No:3 Zeytinburnu

Town: Istanbul Postal code: 34015

Country: Turkey Region: Marmara


Website: www.kirol.k12.tr

Telephone: +902125108010 Fax: +902126647670

DESCRIBE BRIEFLY YOUR SCHOOL :

Our school is an urban school located in Zeytinburnu, one of the most crowded parts of Istanbul. There are approximately 900 students between the age of 14 and 18. We applied for a Comenius project with six partners from different countries last year, however it wasn’t accepted because of the lack of funding. We also applied for Comenius Assistantship as the host school and this application has been accepted and we are going to have a Comenius Assistant from Belgium in January till July 2012.



Our students often have attendance problem. There are some reasons for this problem and we always try to figure it out by even getting help from the specialists in this kind of problems. First of all we want to determine the main causes of early leaving school. After that we want to make a plan to follow to deal with the problem. Of course we are sure that this problem cannot be solved only with the efforts of the teachers or the educators but the students themselves and parents also play an important role in the solution of this problem. That’s why we want to attract the attention of both students and their parents and we want to start with informing this target group. We want to determine all the possible causes and then start to work. What kind of activities would your school like to develop?

We want to organize seminars or panels to inform the parents about the importance of education. There may be several reasons of leaving school such as family issues which is very common in our country, where the parents still don’t let their “daughters” go to school because of social and cultural reasons, financial problems or even psychological ones. We want to organise seminars for, especially, the parents to mention each reason and the possible solutions of these causes. Besides, we want to make the students be sure about the importance of education and direct them to the correct school according to their interests and desires. In this way we aim to help students choose the suitable education for themselves and feel happy at school.


First of all, all the teachers in our school want to involve in this work, but officially one teacher will take part in the seminar.

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Title: Mr First name: Musa Last name: Tokmak

Position: Teacher

Country: Turkey


Name of the School: Polatli Kiz Teknik ve Meslek Lisesi

Type of institution: Vocational High School


Head teacher: Gülsen Turan

School Address: Yavuz Selim Cad. No:2 Cumhuriyet Mah.

Town: Polatli Ankara Postal code:06900

Country: Turkey Region:


Website: http://www.polatlikizmesleklisesi.meb.k12.tr/

Telephone: 00903126232397 Fax:00903126229516


Polatli Kız Teknik ve Kız Meslek Lisesi is situated in the Polatlı,Ankara.Polatli is 75 km far from Ankara.It is very easy to arrive our school by bus or on foot from all parts of city. Our school has 800 m2 of enclosed areas and over 6729 m2 of open area and school building has 3 floors.In our school we have 14 classes,3 vocational ateliers and 3 computer labs. Our school has also ; a Kindergarten has 50 students,a sports hall, Indoor and outdoor voleyball fields, a canteen.Polatli Anadolu Kız Meslek ve Kız Meslek Lisesi is a state Girls Vocational High school.We have nearly 550 girls and 60 teachers. Our lessons start at 8.30 a.m. and finish at nearly 5.30 p.m. every day. In our school, The National Ministry of Education's Regulations are being applied along with academic programmes to increase our students' interests and skills and enrich their knowledge. We have some departments as being Vocational High school.Painting,Child Care and education of pre-child,IT and Computer sciences,Textiles,Tourism and Food. The students learn some vocational lessons and besides that they also learn some culture lessons.That is,Maths,physics,English language,History,Geography,etc. We have also some disabled students who are disabled in mentally and physical.They attend the same classes with normal students but they take some speacial programs that belongs to exclusively to them.We have more free time activities.We have a good travel clubs to travel Turkey and scout clubs as well.


1.What does your school want to do?

We would like to start to talk for a future Comenius project.

2.What kind of activities would your school like to develop?

I would like to participate this contact seminar since I would like to present my future comenius multilateral

project and find the right partners for 2012 deadline.The project will include 9th. grade students. They will prepare a positive and negative images of school. They will write a cataloque that represents the imagination

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of school in their brain. ” Be a in the scool” is the project title. There will be schools from different parts of Europe. Most of the pupils, who have irregular attendance in the school, have got poor and unemployed parents. They come from towns and villages and represent different religions.The project gives children the opportunity to present themselves and skills of designing and to develop key competences. It allows us to know the life conditions, school understanding of the students. The project enables the pupils and their friends’ dreams come true and be part in the project and put them on the paper by designing a new school imagination.The sportic activities develop the pupils’ awareness of each other and they will be tought the respect to the each member of the team.Within this projects, the students who have irregular attendance in the school, will be aware of be-loved and respected by schools and families.

3.How many teachers and pupils would your school like to involve?

10 teachers and 30 students can be involved in this project.

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