Learning, Teaching, Training Activities (LTTA) took place in Porto (Portugal) during the 8th and 10th of November. The LTTA involved trainers and teachers in the school education sector, selected by the PICESL partners.

This course was designed to raise awareness and helped tackle Early School Leaving (ESL) and to prevent disengagement of students. The fact that many students opt to leave school too early increases the risk of being on unemployment and socially excluded. Many teachers and educational professional lack skills to confront this problem.

Through this course participants learnt how to develop more meaningful school experience and how to deal with classroom diversity and ESL. The course focused on knowledge, attitudes, skills, and strategies to engage students. The intention was to go beyond abstract thoughts and reflections and helped educators learn about and acquired practical tools and resources, that can be used to combat ESL and student disengagement.

Encourage and inspire students’ interest in learning and keep students motivated with learning is more and more challenging in the current society. Learning how to accompany students to become self-motivated individuals who realize that their future opportunities depend on their education. If individuals who are at high risk of disengagement of school are involved in the learning process, the rates of ESL can be substantially reduced. This can be achieved through boosting their sense of belonginess and building students’ self-esteem, as well as identifying emotionally vulnerable and behaviorally disengaged students

Therefore, this LTTA had a dual role in the PICESL project:

– Trainers will be trained in intellectual outputs 1 and 2.

– The results of this training and its evaluation were of used to incorporate changes, improvements, adjustments, etc. in intellectual outputs 1 and 2.

Here you can see some videos where participants share their learnings.