The activities and workshops planned in the project will get the students with tendency of early school leave back more into school life, parents and students back into more social life, seniors back into more active life, and waste materials back to usage.
Early School Leaving is one of the mayor common problems which the European countries face. It's linked to unemployment, social exclusion, and poverty. Many young people give up education due to personal or family problems, learning difficulties, etc. In the European Strategy 2020, there is an important attainment which tackles the problem of early school leavers by reducing the drop our rate from the current 15% to 10% .
Emphasizing a reduction even 1% in early school leaving in a year means half a million qualified individuals. For this reason we would like to share our experiences and develop new methods about how to tackle early school dropouts. We believe this Erasmus+ Project on this topic will help educators and members of European Union to determine and apply new policies to reduce early school leaving. Everyone learns differently and everyone has unique interests. But surely some techniques and methods are more effective than others. At the end of the project a report on "What works best for our students", will be shared.
Expected results
1 Enable teachers to lead and facilitate more progressive approaches to Maths lessons to allow for more playful, creative and hands-on learning,
2 Embed opportunities for hands-on learning throughout the curriculum to ensure that students of all abilities have the chance to learn by doing,
3 Creativity should not be regarded as a ‘nice to have’ and restricted to arts subjects, but as fundamental to successful teaching and learning in Maths subject,
4 Ensure that non subject-specific skills for the future such as communication, problem solving and critical thinking are integrated throughout the curriculum,
5 Creative approaches towards teaching and learning should be given more credit than they are given now when inspecting and evaluating school performance.
The motivation of making the Multiple Intelligence methods more attractive to students and teachers in schools is to contribute to the headline education target of the Europe 2020 Strategy, namely to reduce the school-drop-out rates. Related to this, as a more specific approach, the present project is focused on the fact that the level of employability, competitiveness and wealth of our society will depend on the ideas and skills of its population. These have always been the EU’s most important assets.
Several research shows that there is a strong correlation between learning learning through games and better academic achievements in schools. Therefore throughout the span of the programme, we have activities to increase students` knowledge and abilities in reading, maths and business studies with the most popular being in a group environment and teaching Maths creatively. Our own pre-research shows an average of 16% increase Quality of Attention in only 10 weeks structured study of Maths through MI-based learning in schools. We would like to carry on with testing and monitoring our children`s academic progress and eventually be able to measure by how many points our children can do better on different tests done in schools compare to other children who is not involved with our project at all.
Accordingly to a recent research done in in the UK, 58% of students fail to achieve GCSE at grade A-C in Maths and to the PISA test findings: There is a lack of confidence and anxiety of Maths among students of 40%. We therefore wish to get at least 1600 children involved with this project, and by carefully structured programme plan and teaching method, we are confident to produce a positive increase of confidence in Maths among primary school age children. We are particularly keen to see the impact our Erasmus+ project brings to children on the fields of Maths, ICT and Business Studies.
Our children need strong ICT skills to be able to fulfill the so rapidly changing world of technology. Several modules are devoted to this topic itself within our programme plan to develop skills that our pupils need for the future. We are going to work closely with all the ICT coordinators to make sure that our programme provides the best possible outcome for both the teachers and pupils. By the end of this project we expect to see that all our children are able to use their ICT skills in real life environment and that this programme do make them more competent and better achiever on national tests to their counter parts, who do not take part in this project.