3.6. Rozšírené vzdelávanie a vzdelávanie mimo učebných plánov

The aim of the project Creating Peace is to encourage and coach students with special educational needs to develop their transversal skills, especially interpersonal and intrapersonal skills and critical reading and thinking to help them to integrate more easily into local society.

During the first year, students learned about the Thirty Years´ War, how it influenced lives of people and how peace was reached. They looked for successful solutions of conflicts in their national history in general, discussed other possibilities and tried to draw inspiration from it for their lives. Students were coached to improve their critical reading and thinking. They expressed their impressions and feelings through comic, art object, song, rap, drama, etc.

Táto iniciatíva podporuje sociálnu a akademickú integráciu študentov a prispieva k dosahovaniu vzdelávacích úspechov všetkých študentov.

Vzdelávanie rodín patrí k úspešným vzdelávacím činnostiam v rámci výskumného projektu INCLUD-ED. Stratégie vzdelávania pre inklúziu a sociálnu súdržnosť v Európe (Európska komisia, 6. rámcový program, 2006 – 2011).

In the school year 2015/16 the Schulzentrum Ybbs (a school center consisting of three vocational upper secondary schools) introduced a concept called IndY, which involves that 20% of the teaching time is intended for individualized learning. IndY aims at improving students’ expertise, motivation, self-responsibility, self-management, collaborative skills, emotional intelligence and learning methods.

InnoOmnia, in the city of Espoo, Finland, was founded in 2011. It is the first multi-sector vocational education centre in Finland where entrepreneurs may run their businesses jointly with students and teachers. Work and vocational education are part of a blended learning approach. One of the key aims of the programme is to improve the appeal of vocational education, and to offer “21st century learning” opportunities.
Services include:
1. Entrepreneurship support for current and aspiring entrepreneurs, primarily in arts and crafts or the service sectors.
2. Work-based/on-the-job learning programmes
3. Innovation and piloting of new teaching methods in the context of vocational education, g, e.g. gamification, mobile learning, entrepreneurial teaching methods
4. Teacher and school leader professional development for K-12 and vocational sectors

The Joaquim Ruyra Elementary School is located in a disadvantaged suburban district of Barcelona. In the 2016-2017 school year, 92% students were immigrants representing 28 different nationalities (including Pakistan, Morocco, Georgia, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru, the Philippines, China, Bangladesh, Senegal, and the USA) or from minority background (Romani). The school has a 40% mobility rate.  

National and international press have referred to the school as the miracle school as it had achieved academic outcomes above the average in the Catalan standardised tests, outperforming elite schools in the Catalonia region.

All classes in the school feature group work 40% to 60% of the time. The groups mix students of different abilities, genders and nationalities.  The small groups are designed to ensure that no one is left out, and students are encouraged to participate actively.  Each group is facilitated by an adult (e.g. a classroom assistants, a parent).  Psychologists and special education teachers may also work in the classrooms, and they support volunteer parents, teachers and the students.  The extra support and student interaction are considered as essential for supporting and reinforcing children’s learning. 

Fínsko vyvíja inovačné vyučovacie metódy a postupy s cieľom zabezpečiť individuálne potreby prostredníctvom vzdelávania na základe aktivít, výučby v malých skupinách, vzdelávania na pracovisku a rôznych vzdelávacích prostredí, ktorých cieľom je znížiť mieru predčasného ukončenia školskej dochádzky.

Je nepopierateľným faktom, že v mnohých prípadoch záškoláctva a predčasného ukončenia školskej dochádzky sú potrebné lekárske, psychologické, sociálne, vzdelávacie a právne intervencie, ale z výskumu jednoznačne vyplýva aj to, že vo všetkých prípadoch môžu mať rozhodujúci vplyv škola a učitelia. Tento dokument obsahuje kontrolný zoznam na vlastné hodnotenie škôl, 59 podrobných odporúčaní, ktoré sa týkajú zlepšenia školskej dochádzky, zapojenia žiakov a školskej kultúry, ako aj návrhy dohôd o správaní a príklady dotazníkov pre učiteľov aj rodičov. Odporúčané opatrenia sú primárne zamerané na cieľovú skupinu učiteľov, riaditeľov škôl a rodičov. Dokument bol preložený z príručky autorov Nairz-Wirth, Feldmann, Diexer (2012): Handlungsempfehlungen für Lehrende, Schulleitung und Eltern zur erfolgreichen Prävention von Schulabsentismus und Schulabbruch.

The aim of the report Nordic Projects to Combat School Dropout is to improve and inspire new initiatives for young people, and to create enriching contacts between actors and organisations in the Nordic region.
The Nordic Web Resource on Dropout from Upper Secondary Education was a project commissioned by the Nordic Council of Ministers and run by the Nordic Welfare Centre between 2012 and 2015. The aim of the project was to compile good examples of initiatives aimed at increasing the proportion of young people in the Nordic region who complete upper secondary education.