1. Hungary 5 – 9 October 2011

2. RECAP  Immigrants and ethnic minorities  Unemployed, people with low or no income  Disabled (physically, mentally), with psychological problems  Prisioners  People living far from cities  Low education: Illiterate, school drop-outs, school failure, no schooling…  Single mothers, victims of domestic violence.  Elderly people

3. We are a second opportunity school, so our students are ALL somehow “disadvantaged”

4. The Department of Guidance and Counselling is a key stone when dealing with disadvantaged students. -The school counselor meets the needs of the students and helps them with three main domains: -Academic development: getting sure they´re fit in the right course, subject… -Career development -Personal/social development: when the student´s behaviour, background, etc is interfering with his/her achievement

5. Many students start at our school and they never finish mainly because they find difficulty in acquiring the aims of the curriculum. To avoid this, we offer -Extra support lessons -Remedial classes -Literacy and Pre-secondary Education Courses for students with risk factors for dropout.

6. To get the driving license it is necessary to pass a test which requires a right level of reading comprehension. Some students can´t get this level : Disabled Inmmigrants Ethnic minorities Elderly people

7. How can we help them? Improving their self-esteem Working out their reading comprehension Teaching them the mechanism to answer multiple choice tests Advising and being with them in the final test

8. Shifts, Tutorials, Distance and presence education