This document summarizes a pilot session on social exclusion that took place in Gdansk, Poland on January 28, 2015. The session involved 2 teachers and 12 young participants and aimed to test good practices, train trainers, and have youngsters develop 45-minute lesson plans about social exclusion. Various introduction, brainstorming, and planning methods were used during the session. The implementation of the lessons developed will take place in the fall of 2015. The session helped make the youngsters more open with instructors and teachers.

1. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the
information contained therein.
REPORT SHEET ON PILOT ACTIVITIES
FIELD THEME
Social exclusion
PLACE, DATE, TIME OF SESSION
Gdansk, Gimnazjum nr 2, 28.01.2015, 13:45- 15:15
TARGET GROUP, NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS
Teachers, 2 participants
Youngsters, 12 participants
OBJECTIVE OF THE SESSION (WHAT DID WE WANT TO ACHIEVE)
(1) Test good practices;
(2) Train trainers;
(3) Youngsters writing 45-minutes lesson plans about social exclusion
METHODS USED (ILLUSTRATE WITH IMAGES WHEN POSSIBLE)
B.E.L.S. good practice
REACTIONS - OBSERVATIONS – EVALUATIONS: WHAT ADVANTAGES AND RISKS OF
THE METHOD HAVE WE FOUND?
The first three steps of the good practice were implemented during the get-together:
introduction, brainstorm, plan creation. The implementation will take place in the Fall of
2015.
ANY FURTHER OBSERVATIONS

2. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the
information contained therein.
The session has made the youngsters more open to the instructors and their teachers. The
get-together was part of a cycle in which FCP – and EF- regularly meet with students and two
of their teachers from one class and talk about media education related topics – and test them
out. This was the fourth meeting. Until that time the atmosphere had been open but not yet
very personal.
Directly after the get-together the instructors met with parents who were at the school to talk
with the school representatives about their children. The students walked with the educators
to the space where their parents were inside, wished them luck and told them what to expect
and that they supported them.
They all were showing that they felt excluded in a way. The opening up about how they were
concretely excluded happened in get-together no. six, on June 23, 2015. Then seven students
started explaining how they felt excluded by their parents and their siblings. It is our
understanduing that this would not have happened without this fourth session.