Early School Leaving

description

For a young person, leaving school early can bring real risks and socio-economic disadvantages for his/her future. Our Early School Leaving (ESL) course aims to provide opportunity for discussions and ideas for prevention and strategies to deal with it at a classroom level. You will get a hands-on experience with how to identify students at risk and how to motivate them with innovative teaching methodologies that better respond to diverse needs of young learners today.

target group

• Teachers (primary, secondary, vocational, adult, special needs)
• Teacher trainers
• Headteachers
• Principals and school managers

methods

• Lectures and seminars
• Practices
• Project works
• Collaborative teamwork
• Q & A activities

modules

• Module 01 – Introduction to early school leaving
• Module 02 – Identification and coping with students at risk
• Module 03 – Communication strategies for conflict prevention
• Module 04 – Innovative teaching methods: Task Based Learning, Peer Education, Creative Thinking
• Module 05 – Collaborative teaching methods: Cross Curricular Projects, Project Based Learning, Active and Cooperative teaching
• Module 06 – Student assessment
• Module 07 – Mindfulness, emotional and social learning
• Module 08 – Multiculturalism and learners from different socioeconomic background
• Module 09 – Effective use of ICT
• Module 10 – Project workshop
• Guided City Tour

learning outcomes

The participants of this course will

• gain techniques for working with heterogeneous classrooms and communities, deal with increased diversity of learners, support inclusion of various minorities into mainstream education,
• learn to motivate, guide and effectively assess students at risk of ESL, reduce low achievement in basic competences, promote peer exchange and active participation within educational environment and society,
• generate ready‐to‐use materials and examples of good practice to support school or organisational development in the field of ESL through work-based or project based innovative pedagogies,
• promote universal access to education with regards to non-discriminatory, democratic values, support open learning environment and develop digital literacy by using ICT effectively,
• gain broader understanding of strategies and systems dealing with ESL in different countries, cultivate mutual respect, intercultural awareness and embed common educational and training values,
• support continual professional development, revise and develop key competences, build confidence, in promoting active pedagogies that are responsive to social and cultural diversity and needs,
• meet colleagues of different nationalities within the EU, engage in cross-cultural learning experience, exchange the ideas and build a network for future international cooperation and
• enrich communication skills, improve foreign language competencies, broaden professional vocabulary and promote EU’s broad linguistic diversity.

We can offer you both 5 and 10 day courses. For the availability of dates please contact us using the button below!