School dropout?
Not today, thanks to the 3-H project
The figures speak for themselves: around 24 million students worldwide were at risk of not returning to school in autumn 2021 due to the disruption caused by the pandemic. These were general studies not specific to vocational schools, where the situation could be even more significant given that vocational training in many contexts serves to gather and train the most vulnerable young people at risk of marginalisation.
Promoting student well-being at school will be crucial in the near future to reduce school dropout rates. In this regard, we may have a solution to stem the problem: the 3-H project, funded by the Erasmus+ programme.
The project focuses on socio-emotional aspects and the goal is always to prevent school dropout, involving individual pupils in their personal motivation, working on methodologies that facilitate the acquisition of socio-emotional skills and addressing student demotivation and discomfort at school.
Considering that in several European countries there are examples of schools that are incorporating socio-emotional aspects into their learning pathways, the project aims to study some of these experiences and the approaches behind them in order to replicate them in Italian and Spanish VET contexts.
In practice, the project will work on the following aspects:
a) Developing knowledge and methodologies to enable teachers to work on socio-emotional aspects;
b) Outline a strong reception model, dedicated to the first months of pupils’ entry into vocational training courses;
c) Develop/adopt good practices that promote pupils’ well-being at school (from reception onwards) and motivate students.
At the end of the project, the partnership aims to provide a compendium of good practices, a set of guidelines and a toolkit in which the good practices collected will be included. In addition, the final output will be a sort of manifesto for social and emotional education.