TEAM COOPERATION TO FIGHT EARLY SCHOOL LEAVING

Dernier ajout : 6 octobre 2017.

(fr) - “Early school leaving (ESL) is a multi-faceted and complex problem caused by a cumulative process of disengagement. It is a result of personal, social, economic, education or family-related reasons. Schools play an important role in addressing ESL but they cannot and should not work in isolation. Comprehensive approaches that focus on the root causes of ESL are required to reduce ESL.”
Reducing early school leaving : Key messages and policy support, Final Report of, November 2013, p.4.
http://ec.europa.eu/education/policy/strategic-framework/doc/esl-group-report_en.pdf

One of the key policy messages of the European Thematic Working Group identifying the critical conditions for successful policies against ESL is to “Promote and support multi-professional teams in schools to address ESL”.

TITA, « Team cooperation to fight early school leaving, Training, Innovative Tools and Actions », is a project dedicated to trainers, practitioners and stakeholders to provide scientific support, tools for action and training in order to prevent early school leaving from education and training (ELET). Three countries of the consortium (France, Luxembourg and Switzerland) are implementing local and multi-professional teams’ schools to set up measures addressing emerging difficulties at an early stage. Promoting the development of those teams appears to be one of the keys of successful strategies to reduce early school leaving (ESL), Therefore it is necessary to follow the experiments, analyse the difficulties, the levers of success and the impact of teamwork to reduce ESL and widespread the results of analyses, good practices and recommendations.

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To work on ESL with other professionals and to set up student-centred measures, education staff needs to understand ESL and to develop or strengthen special skills. In this project, a scientific and comprehensive database on ESL is created and summaries are written for the local teams and their partners in an “easy to read” format. Local programs to support and train multi professional teams are experimented and analysed with researchers and Europeans trainers.
The aim of the project is double :
-  Implementing and analysing the impact of new policies which consists in developing cross sectorial teams in schools
-  Professionalising the actors involved in the fight against ESL and realising tools for these actors. Europeans trainers will be associated at the analysis and at the production of the created tools
All the analysis, tools and results will be available on a website (http://titaproject.eu) dedicated to the project.
The outputs of the project will be :

A report on comprehensive evaluation of the multi partnership teams

A report will be written to describe how is led, in national and various contexts, a cross-categorial work to fight early school leaving, to compare the national situations one to another and finally, it to assess the local effects produced by specific actions led to promote the cross-categorial work inside schools.
The object of the analysis and the most relevant method to use gradually became more and more precise through TITA partners exchanges, in particular the ones with the French Ministry of Education, the French Institute of Education (IFé), Luxembourg (Lycée d’Ettelbruck) and Swiss partners (Haute Ecole Pédagogique du Valais). The interactive work with these partners was all the more necessary since they were also, by their sides, refining the frame of their actions and the content Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche sur les Qualifications (Céreq) would have to study and assess. An analysis of the collaborative work is done in a comprehensive way led by interviews inside schools and with a quantitative method by questionnaires, to have information from a larger number of schools. The report will articulate the two methods to comprehend in the best way the various aspects of the assessment. A randomized assessment will be led.
The relevance of the statistical approach is ensured by sampling a sufficient number of secondary schools in France, Switzerland and Luxembourg. The involvement of three regional education authorities in France, a Canton in Switzerland and a large number of schools in Luxembourg in the experiment made possible to draw a significant sample of secondary schools considering the ESL risks. The results will be available on the TITA website.

An international literature review on researches and main data on ESL

One of the TITA’s outputs is an international literature review on researches and main data on ESL.
According to the rationale of the TITA project, its scientific base developed by the Slovene Educational Research Institute (ERI), is based on interdisciplinary approach (policy analysis, theory of organisations, pedagogy, andragogy, psychology, philosophy). By taking into consideration wide range of research evidence, it provides a holistic approach to ESL, its understanding and targeting policies.

A mapping of researchers and European experts on ESL

With the same goal as the ESL database, a directory is launched by the French Institute of Education (IFE - ENS Lyon) in order to gather academics, scholars and emerging researchers, having research interests pertaining education and training, whatever the disciplines. They can be contacted via the platform

A platform of videos analysing the real activity of the multi partnership teams

A platform of videos analysing the real activity of the multi partnership teams. Platform designed to be used to train the members of those teams (TIT@ction)

An on line training course

An on line training course

Meetings opened to all European trainers

who will contribute to disseminate preliminary results and enrich the analysis and tools.

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