PACKAGE N°5 QUALITY ASSURANCE PROCEDURES CLUSANE VET SCHOOL – NIMEM - DIMEM SYNTHESIS STEFANA CORSEI –SHALOM COMMUNITY FEIGHT PROJECT MEETING IN PALAZZOLO SULL’OGLIO – ITALY 13 – 14 March 2014

FIRST PROCEDURE: STUDENTS MONITORING AND INDIVIDUAL ABILITIES IMPROVEMENT First step: September - December 2013 Clusane Entrance tests: Mother Tongue (Comprehension, Writing, Speaking), Mathematics and English (Which tests Nimem and Dimem?) a)Entrance tests results analysis b)Meeting of the students and their parents individually with the class tutor and first assessment of the school situation c)Actions to help the weak students with supplementary lessons for little groups: October - December d) Results of the supplementary lessons e)Meeting of students and their parents individually with the class tutor and second assessment of the school situation

SECOND PROCEDURE: COUNSELLING NIMEM - DIMEM family problems attendance problems, school truancy health problems, health disorder failure in some school subjects over weight depression social maladjustment deviant behavior, circle of friends, disobeying the school rules

SECOND PROCEDURE: “COUNSELLING” CLUSANE First step: September – December a)Meeting of the students with the class tutor and assessment of the relationship dynamics b)Responsibility tasks assignment to students in risk of early school leaving c)Self- esteem improvement activities d)Meeting of the students and their parents individually with the class tutor and first assessment of the individual situation ( motivation, behavior, attendance, school tools…)

HOW CAN THE SCHOOLS HELP STUDENTS IN RISK OF SCHOOL LEAVING ? NIMEM – DIMEM – THE STUDENTS NEED THE PSYCHOLOG HELP EXCEPT FOR THE FAILURE IN SOME SCHOOL SUBJECTS AND IN SOME CASES, BEHAVIOUR (HOW OLD WERE THE STUDENTS?) CLUSANE VET SCHOOL: THE CLASS TUTOR CAN DISCUSS WITH THE STUDENTS’ PARENTS AND TRY TO IMPROVE THE SITUATION GIVING HELP IN SCHOOL

ESSENTIAL CONDITIONS TO ADOPT QUALITY ASSURANCE PROCEDURES TO REDUCE EARLY SCHOOL LEAVINGIN VET SCHOOLS (1) the legal basis of the procedures are the european education lines for the members countries and the Education low in force at national level for all of us; the handbook with the Q.A.P. has to be formally adopted by the school’s teachers and from that moment, it becomes compulsory to put in practice all its content;

ESSENTIAL CONDITIONS TO ADOPT QUALITY ASSURANCE PROCEDURES TO REDUCE EARLY SCHOOL LEAVINGIN VET SCHOOLS (2) our proposal should be a model and it should be adapted to respect the schools’ characteristics if necessary; the authors have to specify every time who, what, why, how and when the schools’ teachers, tutors and trainers have to apply every procedure;

ESSENTIAL CONDITIONS TO ADOPT Q.A.P. TO REDUCE EARLY SCHOOL LEAVINGIN VET SCHOOLS (3) you have to indicate and quantify the goals to attain ( in % or in figures) You have to follow your students from the beginning to the end of the school year choosing the topic moments to put in act the different phases of the procedures

Structure of the final product (1) every Quality Assurance Procedure has its text and some forms to fill in, that are parts of the Q.A.P. itself; our handbook could begin with the three procedures we are applying now, during the second year of the project ( Monitoring students and give help, Counselling and Training) and propose other procedures in the second part. (as “Mentoring actions”, with the collaboration of former students that succeed in entering the labour market….

Structure of the final product (2) We should think about other necessary procedures to avoid the early school leaving in V.E.T. schools, also with the collaboration of other specialists as Social Assistants from the Town Halls ( collaboration regarding the heavy families’ conditions, with economic or social or personal parents’ problems) or the Sanitary Authorities for long lasting health problems, truancy. The E.U. institutions listed in their researches the main causes of the early school leaving and we could inquire about other causes in our schools moving from these texts.

Structure of the final product (3) The “neets” (not in education nor in the work market young people) are millions of early school leavers of our V.E.T. schools and we should help them to finish the school and take a diploma. THE END