Early School Leaving is complex multisector phenomenon, resulting from a mix of individual, educational and socio-economic factors. What are Portoguese intervention measures to promote educational inclusion?
3. ESL Rate in 2014
Figure 2: % of population aged 18 to 24 with at most lower secondary
education and not in further education or training (Eurostat, April 2015)
4. EVOLUTION OF ESL RATE IN EU
Figure 3: ESL Rate (18-24 years olds) between 2005 and 2014 (Eurostat, April 2015)
5. EXTERNAL FACTORS
Facilitators:
Reduction demand for low skilled workers in economy -
recession
coordination with social/ welfare system (RSI, etc)
Barriers:
Economic crisis (family income)
Economic crisis (cuts on public spenditure for Education)
Grade repetition rate
Early warning systems not in place
Lack of alternatives for second chance education
6. MAIN MEASURES AND PROGRAMMES IN PLACE
Priority Intervention Educational Areas Programme (TEIP)
Alternative Curriculum Paths (PCA)
Integrated Programe of Education and Training (PIEF)
Vocational Courses
50%
40,1%
46,6%
43,6%
45%
38,3%
28,3%
18,9%
Artistic and Professional Courses (upper secundary level)
Education and Training Courses (CEF)
9 years of compulsory schooling
12 years of
compulsory
schooling
7. Priority Intervention Education Areas Programme (TEIP)
Alternative Curriculum Paths (PCA)
Integrated Programe of Education and Training (PIEF)
Vocational Courses
12 years of
compulsory
schooling
50%
40,1%
46,6%
43,6%
45%
38,3%
28,3%
18,9%
Artistic and Professional Courses
Education and Training Courses (CEF)
9 years of compulsory schooling
KEY STRATEGIES TO REDUCE ESL IN PT
• Mandatory school age
• Education and Training - Vocational courses
• Diversification of curriculum pathways
• Multidisciplinary teams
• Targeted intervention in deprived territories
10. Target schools
Located in disadvantaged areas (social and economically…)
Objectives
- Promote educational inclusion and educational success
- Prevent and tackle absenteeism and ESL
- Improve the learning outcomes and promote the quality of the
educational paths
- Reduce indiscipline (inappropriate behaviour)
TARGET AND OBJECTIVES
12. Improvement plans
Set goals and priority actions to address problems diagnosed
Focussed on 4 main areas/domains:
IMPLEMENTATION
Support to Learning improvement
Prevention of ESL, absenteeism and
indiscipline
Management and organisation
School – Families – community
Relation
13. IMPROVEMENT CYCLE
Diagnostic
(data collection and needs
identification)
Strategical planning
(considering problems/needs
and priority target-groups)
Improvement
Actions
(Goal setting, strategies,,
indicadores e metas)
Monitoring and
Evaluation
(self-regulation mechanisms)
Reshape Action
(considering the lessons
learned)
16. • Succes Rate
• Medium Rate
• Disciplinar
measures per
student
• Completion Rate
• % of students
with positive at
all subjects
• ESL Rate
Domain 1
External
Evaluation
Achievement
Domain 2
Internal
Evaluation
Achievement
Domain 3
Early School
Leaving
Domain 4
Indiscipline
TARGETS
17. 1st SEMESTER REPORT
Collection of the 1st term relevant data
Monitoring of the results achieved until
that point
Possible changes of the actions according
to the needs, as earliest as possible
Intends to make the improvement cycle
familiar to the clusters
18. FINAL REPORT
Deep collection of:
Results on the several domains of the
programme
Evaluation of the targets achievement, results
and process involved
Evaluation of the failures and
improvement proposals
19. SUPPORT TO SCHOOLS
• Between DGE and schools
Support and monitoring meetings
• Collaborative work between schools, DGE
Micro-Networks
• National, regional and local events
Seminars and other events
• 99% of schools have a critical friend
Educational Specialists
21. Training plans
Focussed on 4 main areas/domains:
TRAINING FRAMEWORK
Management of the classroom
Collaboration and pedagogical
supervision
Monitoring and Evaluation
MaisSucesso (Success Plus)
Methodologies
Needs Impact
25. LESSONS LEARNED
WHAT WORKS:
Prevention
Focus on the teaching issues
Good quality of the early interventions
Initial and continuous professional development
Strong and well-developed guidance systems
Vocational/Professional education provision
Cooperation between school and work companies
26. LESSONS LEARNED
WHAT WORKS:
Intervention
Effective Early Warning Systems (EWS)
Individual learning support
Extra-curriculurar activities and out-of-school
activities
Multidisciplinary teams
Empowerment of families
Compensation
Second chance paths
27. LESSONS LEARNED
WHAT DOES NOT WORK…
Non-planned actions
Sectorial interventions mainly focussed on school
Focus on remediation/paliative actions
Non-differenciated support to learners
Focus on the deficit of students
28. LESSONS LEARNED
WHAT DOES NOT WORK…
Too much attention to well-being with lack of attention to
learning
Sociocultural animation/ intercultural mediation non focussed
“Ready to wear” CPD/ training plans
Additional human resources without specific goals
High concentration of problematic students
Lack of connection between the use of IT and the curriculum
Decisions on the Educational provision criteria
Grade repetition
Permanent homogeneous grouping
32. EXAMPLES OF GOOD PRACTICE
“LIGHTHOUSE CLASSROOM”
Available at: www.schooleducationgateway.eu/files/esl/downloads/39_PT_Sala_Farol.mp4
33. EXAMPLES OF GOOD PRACTICE
“MICRO-NETWORK SHARING AMONG SCHOOLS”
Available at:
http://www.schooleducationgateway.eu/files/esl/downloads/49_PT_Micro_network.mp4