Erasmus+ Raising Aspirations for Social Inclusion Italian Case 1 Erasmus+ Raising Aspirations for Social Inclusion

Short presentation - background Ad. Dr. was born in 1997. Primary school and the first two years of junior secondary school: excellent results and behaviours. Soon drastic decrease in results and behaviours. First school failure at the end of the third year. Second school failure during the first year of the secondary school as graphic operator (repeated banning from school). Enrolment at the 1st year of our school course as Operator in Selling Services in the school year 2013/2014.

Class observation – First months of the first school year Ad. Dr.’s behaviours: easy lack of attention BUT intolerance of the class rules Good logical and cognitive skills; lack of interest towards all the subjects Good intelligence and good reading, writing, and calculating abilities Risk of school-non attendance Long sleeping during lessons; SO Long breaks during lessons and between lessons Ad. Dr.’s problematic areas are: Smoking hidden in the toilets Behaviour; Sabotaging food and beverage vending machines Use of substances with an active role in his dysfunctional behavioural manifestations. Impolite and bad replying to teachers and students Not carrying out any assessing path

Activities carried out After a period of observation, it was decided a customised school plan: meetings (one-to-one relationship) with the school special needs teaching assistant to increase: his learning motivation, his strong and weak points, his learning ways, processes, and mind strategies. class monitoring during the lessons: to improve his participation and to promote a better acceptance and more suitable respect of rules but also an active commitment in the didactics.

Practical methods Individual meetings with short-, medium-, and long-term goals; Daily meetings to set specific goals to improve his school behaviour but also to reach suitable school results; Development of conceptual maps and summaries of contents and revision together with the school special needs teaching assistant before oral and written tests.

Results Thanks to the adopted measures: more and more appropriate behaviours to the school context; more cooperation in his attitudes; having a better learning motivation. SO AS A REWARD: Exceptional alternating school-work: 3 days at school and 2 days in an internship. AT THE END OF THE FIRST SCHOOL YEAR: passing with complete sufficiency; improving his behaviour in class; getting good results in the teaching field.

Activities, applied methods, and results in the next two school years Same strategies adopted during the first year to promote his school success; During the second school year: extending his internship period (120 hours longer than the class internship); During the third year: same internship period his class carried out.

Assessments Final results All the teachers adopted the same criteria used for the class, BUT: considered him with higher attention; considered progresses and efforts carried out by him independently of the use of tool and strategies adopted by the student. Professional qualification certificate in June 2016; Hired with an apprenticeship contract in September 2016.