Reducing Early School Leaving
This course aims reduce early school leavings. With this course, all participants will: * Discuss on the definition of ESL and the challenge of defining ESL. * Overview of the current situation in Europe. * Recognize the key challenges, the scale of the problem and main factors leading to ESL across Europe. * Familiarize the concept of ’comprehensive policies’ to reduce ESL * Discuss on the key characteristics of successful policies. * Develop a vision on how to prevent early school leaving * Get knowledge/skills/attitude of teachers, trainers and administrators of the students who have a tendency to give up their training process * Know comprehensive way requiring a critical revision of the entire education and training system * Get a collective sense of responsibility and action for the benefit of the individual, of Member States, for Europe and for financial and social reasons. * Gain experience in an international learning environment. * List the needs and problems in the ESL * Develop a sample of new international school policy related to the subject matter * Be acquainted with and know how to support and encourage some other skate holders to reduce early school leaving * Set up and maintain cross curricular cooperation * Coach colleagues about fostering quality improvements of their teaching style and dissemination of good practices and developing school policy Objectives of the course * Responding to the needs of teacher’s personal and professional development skills in prevention of early school leaving * Improving trainees’ knowledge in National policies to reduce ESL in many European Countries * Ensuring a coherent, systemic and coordinated approach, the exchange of good practices and the efficient use of resources * Understanding strong coordination and cooperation between national, regional and local actors * Getting aware of important elements of a sustainable and comprehensive strategy including; a coordinating body, a progressive approach, local and national adaptation, awareness raising and training, sustainable funding,monitoring and evaluation * Getting familiar with the strategies of active involvement and cooperation of skateholders at national, regional, local and school level * Learning about the important elements for successful cooperation within the context of ESL including Inter-agency or inter-institutional arrangements, Central role of schools, Involvement of pupils and parents, Learning Cooperation