5.1. Tværfaglige teams

Dette dokument har til formål at gennemgå dokumentationen for det potentiale, som fler- og tværfaglige teams har for at spille en central rolle i forebyggelsen af skolefrafald. Som led i udviklingen af en strategi for fler- eller tværfaglige teams lægges der stor vægt på de betingelser, der er nødvendige og fremmende for deres effektivitet, snarere end på en deterministisk formodning om deres uundgåelige effektivitet. Rapporten understreger behovet for at yde stærk strategisk vejledning til teamene om vigtige spørgsmål, som de skal engagere sig i, såsom støtte til mental sundhed, alternativer til suspension, opsøgende arbejde over for marginaliserede familier, løsning af konflikter med lærere og færdigheder i mangfoldighedsuddannelse, færdigheder i forebyggelse af mobning, fremme af et positivt skoleklima, engagement i forældrefærdigheder og fokus på børns sproglige udvikling osv.

In 2011/2012, the Dutch School Inspectorate concluded that student results in the Tjotter school were too low. The school used to have a negative pedagogical climate, and suffered from a loss of trust between school and parents. Eventually, the school staff lost confidence in the former school leader and requested the school board to appoint a new leader. With an arrival of the current school leader four years ago, innovative processes started. A common view of education and teacher mutual learning was established, in addition to the culture of continuous improvement.

Key interventions:

• improvement of teachers’ pedagogical and didactical skills: team schooling with subsequent follow up and monitoring within the learning community of teachers, individual coaching and change of personnel
• creating student portfolios to make students the owners of their learning process while students were also encouraged to participate in its formation
• other approaches being used at school: positive behaviour support; encouraging student participation and (direct) feedback on student’s results; ‘Teach like a Champion’; and HGW (Action Oriented Approach) for student differentiation.

In the past, the Dutch School Inspectorate notified the Warande school about their students‘ low results. The school staff, however, were very much hesitant towards the test-driven-accountability-approach established by the Inspectorate. Therefore, the school team decided to re-define and interpret test-driven accountability in their own way. Instead of emphasising the learning results per se, they wanted to focus on the process of learning itself – starting from children’s needs and guiding them in their own development.

To be able to focus on children’s continuous development, the school also felt the need to integrate the child day care, kindergarten, elementary education and after school care. These issues ignited the need for organisational and pedagogical changes. Overall, the school has been innovative during recent years, and latest innovative approaches represent a continuity of this process and reflect the school’s innovative culture.