Tackling early school leaving and disadvantage
The project "Everybody
matters" and the participating schools would like to try to
tackle together
early school leaving and disadvantage by promoting the acquisition of the following skills and competences for our pupils, school staff and inside our school environments:
early school leaving and disadvantage by promoting the acquisition of the following skills and competences for our pupils, school staff and inside our school environments:
Social
skills
Well being at school
European
collaboration
The participating schools are:
Oriveden yhteiskoulu, Orivesi (Finland)
Gimnazijai strukovna škola Jurja Dobrile, Pazin (Croatia)
Liceo ClassicoStatale Pilo Albertelli, Rome (Italy)
Agrupamento de Escolas deAlvaiázere, Alvaiázere (Portugal)
We strongly believe that by improving the social skills of our pupils and school staff we will be able to tackle early school leaving and disadvantage. We also can tackle these problems by developing our school environments to more caring and safer places to learn. In all partner schools we have our own ways to help our pupils, but together we are more: By exchanging the best practices for helping our pupils we can increase the quality of our schools and we can do much more for our pupils and for their future.
We will produce and publish an online handbook for schools: "Everybody matters. What you do makes a difference. A handbook on how to be somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody" . This way we offer other schools many effective tools and good ideas how to tackle early school leaving and disadvantage.
The pupils and school staff will work on the project utilizing eTwinning, Erasmus+ Project Results Platform and social media (YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook). There will be project workshops inside the partner schools and three international project workshops (short-term exchanges of groups of pupils) will be organized in Croatia, Italy and Portugal. In the beginning of the project there will also be one short-term joint staff training addressed for the teachers of partner schools in Finland. Altogether we will organize 100 project mobilities - 25 mobilities per partner school - during the project period.
In today's working life the competence of international communication is crucial. We want to offer our pupils the possibility to get to know pupils from other European countries, the possibility to use English as a working language and to learn about intercultural communication. It's important for young people to learn to respect the diversity of European languages and cultures. Through the project work and with the planned short-term exchanges we can offer them the possibility to start to create their European network for their future.
Working with people from other European countries is a very effective way to get to know our own home countries, their culture, languages and cultural expressions. This will help us to grow world open, open minded young people who respect the diversity and the differences of people without prejudices.