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NEWSLETTER #4 - DROP’IN
What happened during the last months?
Even if COVID-19 affected heavily our lives, the partnership of DROP’IN continued its work, in order to achieve the project objectives. After creating activities and monitoring tools, the phase of experimentation and valorization in all the countries ended, involving more than 25 teachers and 600 students. Of course, the majority of the activities have been implemented through distance learning due to the COVID-19 emergency. As result of the work of our teachers, an online portfolio – DROP’IN ACTION - has been created, with the aim of transmitting and describing the experimentation of non-formal techniques and above all making visible the results and impact of the methods tested.
What is DROP’IN ACTION?
DROP’IN ACTION is an online portfolio addressed to teachers, showing the experiential phase of DROP’IN project in which teachers and students put into practice the methodologies and activities developed and included in the EDUC’ACTION catalogue. This phase was implemented in the school years 2019/2020 and 2020/2021, a period that included the restrictions and social distancing rules due to the COVID-19 emergency, which has brought to a general lockdown in many European countries. The lockdown period led the project partners to a deep reflection on remote education and techniques to be used online.
DROP’IN ACTION is the systematic collection of these experiences, reflexions, analysis, emotions, resulting from the participation of school teachers involved in the introduction of non-formal education in their classes. All the experiences acquired are collected at the following link: Online Portfolio.
The Policy Paper
At the same time, with the results of this phase, a Policy Paper has been developed: a document with recommendations addressed to policy makers dealing with the topic of education and prevention of early school leaving. The document will be distributed on a European scale, giving each partner the opportunity to disseminate the activities at national and local level.
What's happening in our partner countries?
In this phase of the project, multiplier events have been organized in each partner countries as a way of presenting the results we have been able to achieve: teachers and policy makers will know in details our products and will allow our project to be sustainable in the long-term period, supporting our action against early school leaving.
Let’s have a look at how our events went or if you have the chance to attend one on the next weeks:
FRANCE
In France, the multiplier event was held on the 2nd of June 2021 in the Collège Rosa Parks de Pouillon.
The event was divided to two main moments: an official presentation of the project, its objectives and achievements, the tools developed during the last years and then a participative moment where the teachers attending had the chance to test some methods elaborated during the project through different interactive workshops.
The facilitators of the workshops were teachers involved already in the project and has tested the method presented in their classrooms to teach their subject.
The event was very successful because almost all the teachers who took part left very satisfied and motivated to implement some nonformal methods in their classrooms during the upcoming scholar year.
ITALY
In Italy the event was held on the 8th of July 2020 in Palermo (Italy). Hosted in a secondary school, it has gathered more than 40 people (teachers from other schools, educational trainers, staff from CSOs and educational experts) and it has been a chance to introduce the main results of DROP’IN. The event has been crucial to explain – finally, face-to-face - how to use in the best way the online portfolio, showing the main impact on the students and sharing the recommendations developed after 36 months of project.
BULGARIA
The Bulgarian multiplier was organized on 9th July 2021 in Ramada by Wyndham Sofia City Center.
In addition to the detailed presentation of the project, the partners, the implemented activities and created products, the event was a priceless opportunity for a direct meeting with representatives of the target group (teachers, educational specialists, trainers and youth workers from Bulgaria) and a demonstration of the different types of materials and resources in the platform.
The discussions showed that unfortunately, early school leaving is still a very serious problem in the education system in Bulgaria, and the access to appropriate resources and materials is not only difficult but also very time consuming. Most teachers don’t have the time and opportunity to dig for materials suitable for fighting early school leaving and increasing the motivation of students. The event was successful: despite the inconveniences caused by the additional health measures and restrictions, many people responded to our invitation to attend the multiplier event and participated actively in it. Moreover, further information related to DROP-IN project were spread among stakeholders who will benefit from it in the future and disseminate it among their contact network in this way reaching sustainability and added value.
LATVIA
DROP’IN already had its chance to be introduced into the Latvian community last October 2020: on October 21-22, 2020, Gulbene municipality teachers gained knowledge on how to reduce the number of early school leavers using various non-formal education methods, and to promote students' motivation for education. The event has been a chance to introduce the outputs developed up to that moment, with a great success among the teachers and the educational experts who attended the event.
And teachers from Latvia will have another chance to know better the last results of DROP’IN! In fact, a last multiplier event will be organized on the 15th of August 2021. Don’t miss it! For further information on the event, please contact Lauris Skender at the following mail: lauris.skenders@gulbene.lv.
DROP’IN MAIN RESULTS
DROP INSIGHT
A quantitative and qualitative research on ESL at European, national and local level, providing an overview of the ESL phenomenon, analyzing public policies and innovative strategies to counteract it and enhancing the point of view of teachers and the needs of educational communities.
EDUC'ACTION: THE EDUCATION IN ACTION!
A catalogue of at least 46 non-formal education techniques used by teachers: it presents the activities, indicating the objectives, the duration and number of participants, the materials to be used, the results to be obtained and the methods of evaluation. Some methods, tested by teachers in the different partner countries, include also tips and comments for the implementation of the techniques and their adaptation to be used in some specific school subject or discipline.
DROP'INVOLVE: Teachers' training
A non-formal education-training programme led by experts for teachers who want to discover and develop non-formal techniques to introduce into their classrooms. Following that training, a peer-to-peer training was held in the different partner countries in order to enlarge the educative communities of DROP IN project and increase the number of teachers interesting in this approach.
DROP'IN ACTION: EXPERIMENTATION & VALORISATION
An online portfolio, with the aim of transmitting and describing the experimentation developed within the project and above all making visible the results and impact of the methods tested in classrooms by the teachers.
POLICY PAPER: DROP' INSPIRATION
The document presents the results of all the actions of the project and their analysis in order to provide concrete recommendations to policy makers on European, national and local level to encourage the introduction of non-formal education in formal education setting.
About DROP'IN
If you want to deepen the basis of our project and to find all the main results,
please, check the main website at
DROP'IN is a project funded by Erasmus+ Key Action 2, Cooperation for innovation
and exchange of good practices, Strategic partnerships - SCHOOL sector
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The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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