2019-1-ES01-KA101-060593 EXPLORING LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS TO REDUCE DROPOUT RATE (IES AUSIÀS MARCH-GANDIA). El presente proyecto ha sido financiado con el apoyo de la Comisión Europea. Esta publicación es responsabilidad exclusiva de los autores. La comisión no es responsable del uso que pueda hacerse de la información aquí difundida.
Beatriz González, head of the department of culture and classical languages, has carried out an Erasmus mobility the week of June 13 to 18 in the town of Palermo (Italy). This mobility consists of a course on reducing the rate of early school leaving. To do this, they have analyzed the most frequent causes, as well as the strategies that can reduce this high rate.
The week of June 13 to 17, Adela Cascales, a mathematics teacher, has carried out an Erasmus+ mobility at the Sharples School secondary school in Bolton, Lancashire (Greater Manchester, United Kingdom). Since mathematics at IES Ausiàs March is taught in English in 1st ESO, the objective of this mobility is to learn teaching strategies to apply in our IES in our multilingual teaching context.
The week of May 16 to 20, teachers Amparo Izquierdo and Gloria Morant have been visiting a Polish center in the town of Niepolomice. In this school, in addition to learning about the country's educational system, they have observed language learning methodologies; They have also learned about specific programs that can be implemented to reduce school failure and that will be previously evaluated by the IES Ausiàs March teaching team for greater effectiveness. As part of the agreement, there are now 3 teachers from that High School, Dorota, Anna and Izabela, who are visiting Gandia the week of May 23-27.
On Sunday, April 24, the head of studies at IES Ausiàs March, Ximo Peiró, and the English teacher, Àngels Roselló, began a visit to the Moletai secondary school (Lithuania) during the week of April 25-29. This visit is part of the KA-101 Erasmus+ project focused on exploring different educational practices and initiatives in European centers that can be imported into the Gandia secondary school with the intention of reducing early school dropout and school failure.
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During the December bank holidays, from the 4th to the 11th, our Erasmus + teammate, Amparo Bataller, participated in a course corresponding to a mobility of the Erasmus + project that seeks to reduce the dropout rate at the high school. The course has taken place in the Croatian city of Split and with the training on new technologies it is sought to give continuity to the school goal that applies this knowledge by promoting motivation and a more attractive learning for students with a tendency to leave studies early.
During the first quarter of the 2021-22 academic year, the logo contest was held for the Erasmus + project of the IES Ausiàs March with which they seek strategies that reduce the dropout rates in high school. In an interdisciplinary way, the computer science and visual arts departments have managed the contest led by their department heads Cristina Camarena and Verónica Sebastià respectively. The winning logo was that of the student Mireia Escrivá Femenia of 3ºC and the second finalist of the student Jonatan Terrades. The project coordinator awards the prize to the finalist Jonatan Terrades and the winner of the contest Mireia Escrivá.
