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TITLE OF THE SUCCESS STORY
No holidays, no cares
COUNTRY WHERE IT TOOK PLACE
Spain
AUTHOR OF THE SUCCESS STORY
Headmaster
SCHOOL TYPOLOGY
High Secondary School
THEMATIC AREA
School bullying
DESCRIPTION OF THE SUCCESS STORY
DEPARTURE:
The protagonist of the story student is 15. The student is in 3 º ESO. It belongs to a dysfunctional family. At home mother living with her daughter.
The mother works at a local bar the next, in the town of Coria del Río. Due to the schedule that has the mother at work, can not pay much attention to the daughter.
The family lives in a village located southwest of the city of Seville, 15 miles of it. The village is located in the region of the Marshes. Therefore, most families work in rice cultivation.
The student has as regards their premiums. The student premiums are higher, and are already working, but have not completed their studies.
The student decides to stop going to school. She wants to get to work in a pizzeria with a cousin for a very low salary and no contract.
Friends of the student do not study, and have problems with drugs. Friends of the student takes all day in the street, NEET.
The mother did not want to have problems with social issues, and comes to tell his daughter that has a bad behavior so that the expelled and not have to go to class. Thus the behavior of the student is constantly disruptive, disrespectful to teachers and their peers.
 


Trigger the change:

The center head teacher is very involved in this case, the orientation of the center and teachers, and constantly trying to reach agreements with the student, encouraging her to continue her studies and to form.


Development:

Teachers remind the student that the salary will collect no good for the future because it is very little.
Part of the success is also due to the professionalism of the teachers of the school, not only adapt to the different situations that occur in high school, if you take advantage of the maximum available resources to respond these cases, in order that on any student who is reinstated to classes are not misplaced and resume their academic activities as normally as possible, and having the ability to re-do feel engage students, and that can follow the thread of the class in the best possible condition.
In addition the center has three technical team meetings with social service year, one each school term. They are attended by the representative of social teams, a representative of the council's social work field, the management team of people out local police inspector and representative area of ​​the council of Seville.
CRITICAL ANALYSIS
Criticalanalysis:
Evidence of the success of the event is the return of the student to the educational system, it Relying on the clear collaboration with the student teachers.
The director also exposes the importance of teachers against teachers, because they know motivate students, and in this case has done much.
The student gets into the adult PCPI and ends in two years. He worked hard and that was three years without studying. He had an average of 8 in high school and entered the primary education diploma.
The center is also of vital importance because it performs all modifications that are necessary to ensure that the student meets normally and have sense of progress and therefore involvement in academic tasks that arise.
The center is also of vital importance because it performs all modifications that are necessary to ensure that the student meets normally and have sense of progress and therefore involvement in academic tasks that arise.
At school, they try to ensure that you identify each of the students find the sense of learning, delivering a very defined tasks among teachers.

Teachers with patience, understand situations in their specific context and seek workable system for student curriculum, making individual adjustment.

Key actions undertaken to understand is to understand the performance guidelines distitnas truancy cases. Nationally, the Education Act (LOE, 2066) stable schools must ensure the overall development of its students for what to make much curriculum adaptations as necessary. It also identifies the Regional Government schools located in high risk areas sociocultural. These centers reiben more specific attention and greater human and material resources.


Keys to success with Domain Transfer are possible:

Unconditional collaboration with student peers.
Flexibility of the curriculum.
Empathy on the part of teachers.
Plasticity of the school.
Direct involvement of teachers, guidance and management team.
Interest of the student.
Working with the social council.

20 December 2014

Final Partners’ meeting

The fourth partners’ meeting took place in Florence (IT) on 15 December 2014. The meeting had the objective to check the activities carried out since the third meeting of the project and share and assess the in progress results. A special focus has been dedicated to the presentation of the strategies to solve the case scenarios.