More than 40% of our learners leave their studies before finishing them

We need to increase the number of our students

Statistical studies carry out by City Hall’s Social ServicesPolls

Meeting with learners and personal interview

Aged: most of them between 17 - 25

Male and Female: There is not an important difference except that 64% male choose sciences but only 36% female choose sciences.

Foreigners: 10%. They come from: Africa, South and Central America, East Europe. Increasing number.

Disabled learners: some learners have psychiatric problems

Inmates: 11 learners

89% still live with their families

Their most important problem: employment and housing

70% say are not interested in political issues

64% have never been member of any association

30% female and 15% male are interested in NGOs

87% state television is the main pastime, followed by pubs and discos, computer, sport and cinema. They do not read, go to theatre, conferences, expositions, museums, concerts...

70% are working

Service Sector: stores, shops, telesales workers, bricklayers, curries...

They described their job: precarious job, temporary job, non friendly environment, low salary, shits changed, unstable conditions, non motivating job since it not allow them to develop their skills. All through the course they changed their job, their shits, even they get unemployed, and have to change their job. That means it could be impossible to attendance classes.

They are frequently exploited and they can’t choose since they need work because they belong to the lower income groups and have no qualifications.

60% less to 2 years, 40% more

They leave their studies because:

• They failed repeatedly 64%
• They didn’t feel like studding 24%
• They need to work to support themselves 12%
  

Get into Vocational Training 41%

Get into University 24%

Get into official competitive examinations 11%

To promote social and professionally 35% (but they do not Know how)

Timetable matches with their working hours 65%

They do not fix in morning classes due to their age, since they have been failed repeatedly 21%

It is easier 14%

Due to their work hours 26%

They are exhausted after working 25%

They are lazy, lack of will, they do not feel like going 25%

To study 13% since they are working and haven’t time to study

For family commitment 11%

Should be easy to follow 45%

Should help to pass the examinations 32%

Should allow them to participate in 16%

Unfriendly, not supportive teacher 7%

Only before their examinations 53%

Only at weekend 28%

Several days per week 19%

Attendance classes regularly 46%

Fix study hours in our High School 26%

Admit to feel someone pressing them 21%

Time, since they do not any due to their work hours 7%

They say have not got a good level of knowledge about work offer in their community

Studies orientation according their real possibilities

Studies techniques

Personal attention

Create room for our learners to express themselves

Give learners advice on their professional career on their forth coming

Open up School to cultural (non-academic) activities

Foster personal contact between teacher-learner, tutor-learner

Practical work, interesting curricula

Advertising

MODEL

StaffStudents themselves

Local Institutions (City Hall, Council Office for Younger, Council Office for Woman, Social Services, People University, Employment Office)

Families

Companies

STRATEGIES

TG: young adults in risk of social exclusion

Strategy 1: Create room for our learners to express themselves

• Learners have made a clay wall that will be settled as an ornament at school

• Photograph Exhibition • Inmates are working on a picture exhibition: Art free: childhood memories

• Philosophical essay: Cultures, alliance or clash

Strategy 2: Open up School to cultural (non-academic) activities

• Learners and teachers have gone to several exhibitions and museums

• They have gone to the theatre

• They both have been involved in a program focused on arts as a vehicle to change ideas and work

Strategy 3: Practical work, interesting curricula

• Several subjects are closely connected and work together about sustainable development since United Nations has declared 2005 - 2014 as Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.

• Learners themselves have made a searching about what and how they want to work about • Workshops focused on social skills and values

Strategy 4: Students themselves should take part actively in their educational process

• Learners organise their exhibitions, design adverts, pick best performances, choose those that will be exhibited, settled them, decide what and how to work on Sustainable Development, evaluate all the activities, register the results of surveys and questionnaires in computerised sheets

• Have participated in advertising activities

• They Have done this presentation

Strategy 5: Give learners advice on their future professional

• Workshop about self-employment

• Speech on studies and careers

Strategy 6: Working with companies where learners are working

• Learners can take to companies where they are working, well in advance, a letter with exams schedule

Strategy 7: Working with local agencies than can advised us about TG

• Council Office for the Young: Alternative Program and health night spare time

• Círculo Bellas Artes

• Council Office for Co-operation: workshop on how be a helpful person

Strategy 8: Advertising

• Local radio and local TV program. We have explained what MODEL is and what can our school provide as a Life Long Learning site for those who are more than 18

Strategy 9: Motivating Staff

• Having different tasks assigned and being responsible for them

• Thinking their outputs are going to be exchanged with our European partners

• Empowering through the exchange of experiences

• Feeling our projects go beyond our school boundaries Evaluation: The best strategies are those that

• Take place within school timetable

• Are integrated in the curricula of the different subjects and are evaluated as a part of them

• Learners and teacher work together