Ei YoU! Educational innovation facing youth unemployment

Report on Local Workshops with Teachers

Global data

• Between February and March 2015

• 46 teachers and 8 workshop facilitators

• Teachers representing, at least, 14 schools (Austria?)

Distribution of participants  Portugal Austria Turkey Italy

Participants 12 teachersFrom 3 schools

10 teachers, educators, mentors

andyouth workers

12 teachers from 3 schools

12 teachers and school directors from 4 schools

Location

Secondary School Bernardino Machado

(the school headquarters of the

school grouping)

Informal meeting room

Nigde MEM meeting office

Centro Studi Villa Montesca meeting office

 Leading partner

School Grouping AE FigueiraMar and Future

Balloonspresente! Nigde MEM Centro Studi Villa

Montesca

Working methodUsing images to find the charateristics of the problems

Writing about own perceptions and events related

Finding consensus

Delivering a diagram of factors

Phase 1 -Facing the problem

Brainstorming freely

Working in teams to prototype solutions and peer revise them

Select achievable options

Phase 2 - Finding solutions

Results- inspiration/visual learning

Teachers summarized the mood of the pictures with statetments of their experience.

Some of the emotions recognized in youth were:

Fear Need and search for inspiration Unclear future Stress Difficulties in defining own “self” Apathy Not fitting into the mainstream

Results - automatic writing Most of writings mean negative thoughts related to students’ behaviour:

Desinterest, indifference, apathy, lack of commitment, laissez faire, monotony

Other interests besides knowledge, Depression, revolt, withdrawal, fight, destabilising classesAmong others…

Some positive thoughts: Investment, entrepreurship, achievement, proactivity Courage, sharing, work BELIEVE

Results - world café

Effects

School

Students

FamilyClassroom

System

Discussion lead to two more factors: family and system, showing a transversal influence.

Results - school Increased absenteeism

Indiscipline

Place of entertainment ≠ place favouring knowledge

Inability of school to answer adolescents’ lack of motivation

Standardised methods

Need for role models at school

Mistrust in politics

Results - classroom Peer bad influence

Social inequalities

Failure of educational relationship/communication

Lack of goals

Social devaluation of the teacher

Crisis of values

Entertainment in class

Curricula are not adapated to current reality

Results - students social interaction and few subjects keep students motivated

“nerds” are not seen as normal

generalization of stories (cyclic)

risky behaviour

decline in school performance

physchological symptoms

choose the easiest path

Results - factorsFamily factorsUnemployment at home

Lack of support, inability to help, instability

Economic needs

Family dysfunctions

System Demand for a change in business world

Education gap

Lack of positive role models

“fördern” – inadequacy of support system

Results - BrainstormingPortugal Austria Turkey Italy

• Vocational alternative pathways / entrepreneurship

• Positive Experiences• Emotional Support• Emigrating• Motivating• Commitment to

school

• Dropout school• Zukunftsfächer

[Subjects of the future]

• Dreamworkshop• Learning happens as

we speak

• Demotivation and early school dropout stemming from the unemployment

• Lack of educational innovation facing youth unemployment

• School and Family• Teacher in continuity,

Teacher at the center• Interaction• Value to the experience

and problem solving• Summed worlds

Results - PrototypingPrototype1 – Emotional support Allow students to benefit from na informal contact space with teachers

Enable the collection of more detailed and personalised information

Space of motivation based on emotional/affective support

Prototype2 – Positive Experiences Bring to school former students / young entrepreneurs with successful paths

Promote visits to companies - future employers

Boost trade shows / training workshops

Assist the bureaucratic part of job application

Teach how to deal with silence of companies

Results - PrototypingPrototype3 – Alternative pathways New capabilities to work with students:

Flexibility: we have to be versatile to adapt to change, to have skills in different areas

Entrepreneurship: join and create their own jobs; Persistence / Perseverance: not give up, seek

diverse training JobLab Networking skills

…

Prototype 4 – Guidance Office Establishment of an office to guide a specific group of students as a pilot implementation.

The students will be guided according to statistics and observations with negotiations between teacher-student and family.

The families of pilot intervention students will be served by the consultancy services

Peer-learning activities

Personal improvement seminars

Results - PrototypingPrototype 5 – Dropout School

create an alternative school for drop out students with the help of entrepreneurs, experts who are themselves drop outs and therefore have a strong sense of what is missing in the public school system …

Prototype 6 – Dreamworkshop organise workshops to develop personal skills that are key to a strong character that will be more resilient, for 10-13 years old, e.g. Perception of self Build trust Collect experiences Recognition of agency Personal goal setting

Results - PrototypingPrototype 7– Interaction school-family

increase the interaction school-family in the educational action of vocational orientation

create conditions for an amelioration of the relation climate within the class: Help-desk for parents Group-work with parents

Prototype 8 – Teacher mediation beat the obstacles that teachers find in doing their role

re-establish a link among knowledge, concepts and culture

active-listening in the communication between teacher-student

Results - PrototypingPrototype 9 – Network model

to assure the best continuity between the first and the second levels of education

to provide the student with a training project along all levels of study

develop an orientation culture, favouring the tranining and operative dimension

to include project of alternation school/work

Prototype 10 – Valuing experiential learning a kind of teaching oriented towards the learning by ‘discovering’ has to base on the ‘making’ and on the “making together”

every discovery is a conquest!

problem resolution strategies applied to dropout, absence, demotivation,…

Reflection

The project is only a “toddler”, learning to understand, compare and correct what is wrong with our young community of learners, and eager to develop in them skills and abilities to face the world they will be living in.

The moments we have been working together have made us aware of the reality they will face unless we do something to help them successfully overcome their difficulties.

And here we are, working together, to achieve the project’s goal, which is shown in the report.