The course aims to improve participants’s knowledge and practical skills in dealing with students at risk of early school leaving and using innovative methodologies in order to enhance their motivation and involvement.

Thanks to this project the participants will:

acquire knowledge about early school leaving’s situation in different European countries;
acquire knowledge and practical skills about innovative methodologies and tools oriented to understand and handle student’s emotions and discomfort;
practice and gain confidence with methodologies to motivate and involve students at risk;
acquire knowledge about best practices to face early school leaving in Europe, analyzing successful projects;
share experiences and points of view through intercultural exchanges built through a problem solving approach;
spend one week in Rome with travel, accommodation and meals all covered by Erasmus+ Programme.

WHO CAN APPLY?

Teacher trainers
Careers officers, educational guides and counsellors
Headteachers/principals/managers of schools/organisations offering adult education
Other (Paid or voluntary) management staff in the institution/organisation
Non-teaching administrative staff
Members of students/teachers councils in adult education

METHODOLOGY

The methodology is highly practical and concrete. The training will make use of the Flipped methodology, which relies on social and constructive learning. The course will be carried out through laboratories and educational games in a collaborative context with the teacher’s support. Furthermore the participants, having experienced the Flipped Methodology during the training, will be able to use it to create themselves innovative lessons to motivate and involve students at risk. The trainers will make extensive use of evidence-based examples and experiences. Every day the concepts and methodologies studied will be associated to exercises and laboratories in order to make the participants immediately confident with the new tools.

COURSE'S PROGRAMME

Day 1

15:00 – 17:00 Welcome drink with presentation of the participants and organizations (icebreaker game)

17:00 – 19:00 Presentation of learners’ experiences about early school leaving

Day 2

09:00 – 10:00 Presentation of the methodology and objectives with learning need analysis

10:00 – 11:30 Overview of the problem of early school leaving, case studies, best practices in Europe

11:30 – 13:00 Dealing with emotion: a psychological approach to adolescents’ discomfort – role game

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

From 14:00 Presentation of Rome and proposal of cultural itineraries in the city

Day 3

09:00 – 10:30 Flipped methodology: examples and laboratories

10:30 – 13:00 The narrative grammar as a tool to know students’ needs: autobiographical method – exercises and laboratories

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

From 14:00 Presentation of Rome and proposal of cultural itineraries in the city

Day 4

09:00 – 11:00 An innovative way to get students involved in the lesson: educational games – examples and laboratories

11:00 – 13:00 Simulation of an educational game

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

From 14:00 Presentation of Rome and proposal of cultural itineraries in the city

Day 5

09:00 – 12:00 Working on the project: create an educational game

12:00 – 13:00 Evaluation of the course, feedbacks

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

From 14:00 Cultural Training Activities in Rome

INFO 

If you are a group of 5 people ERIFO can arrange extra courses in the most suitable dates for you! Just contact us.