Don’t Give Up & Catch Your Dreams

All the participants will:

- Discuss the definition of ESL and the challenge of defining ESL.
- Recognize the scale of the problem, and the main factors leading to ESL across Europe.
- Familiarize the concept of ’comprehensive policies’ to reduce ESL
- Develop a vision on how to prevent early school leaving
- Get knowledge/skills/attitude of teachers, trainers, and administrators of the students
- List the needs and problems in the ESL
- Be acquainted with and know how to support and encourage some other stakeholders to reduce early school leaving
- Coach colleagues about fostering quality improvements of their teaching style and dissemination of good practices and developing school policy

- Responding to the needs of teacher’s personal and professional development skills in
prevention of early school leaving
- Improving trainees’ knowledge in National policies to reduce ESL in many European Countries
- Ensuring a coherent, systemic, and coordinated approach, the exchange of good practices, and the efficient use of resources
- Getting aware of important elements of a sustainable and comprehensive strategy including a coordinating body, a progressive approach, local, and national adaptation, awareness-raising and training, sustainable funding, monitoring, and evaluation
- Getting familiar with the strategies of active involvement and cooperation of stakeholders at the national, regional, local, and school level

- Practical and skills-based -interactive learning,
- Immediate feedback,
- Hands-on activities and
- Inspiring discussions on best practices.
- Role-playing the sample situations to understand the psychological factors of ESL
- Designing sample school policies by brainstorming in group dynamics.

- Teachers, trainers, educators, school administrators, etc.

Before the program,

- A detailed questionnaire to indicate their level of experience, teaching backgrounds, and training will be completed by participants.
- They will also prepare a presentation to reflect their teaching method

- A participation certificate will be given to all participants.
- A Europass Mobility Certificate will be given if the participant demands it, as well.

Ice-breaking activities and introduction of the program
Getting to know each other Presentation of the schools
The possible reasons for ESL depending on the cultural or social background of the
countries
Comprehensive policies to reduce ESL
Cultural visits to some historical and touristic sites in the city

Welcome meeting with the teachers and students at the host school
Visit and observe the classes and the teachers and see how and what the students take
lessons
See how the teachers behave to students who tend to drop out of schools
Semi-evaluation session with Anatolia Team and the administrative staff at school

Discussion: Observing and discussing participants’ school policy about ESL and curriculum
against the ESL
Ensuring a coherent, systemic, and coordinated approach, the exchange of good practices,
and the efficient use of resources against ESL

Raise parental awareness of ESL and empower families and parents to support their
children's education

See how they bring in the students who prone to leave the school to the school back
Understand the importance of behaving every student the same by establishing inclusive
environment at school
Meeting with the teachers and administrators at school and discussion of the current
systems.

Brainstorming: speak about your policy against the ESL and the host school’s policy and
compare them
- Creating evaluation form using google forms
Filling out the evaluation forms
- Feedback session and Certificates