The aim of the project is to enable pupils from partner schools to help colleagues from their own schools that are either at risk of school failure or have special educational needs to improve their grades and personal development.
We are six European schools cooperating within Erasmus+ project. The aim of the project is to enable pupils from partner schools to help colleagues from their own schools that are either at risk of school failure or have special educational needs to improve their grades and personal development.
In each school there are students that have good results and students with bad results. The bad results are due to different reasons: students’ lack of interests, teachers’ uninspired lessons, students coming from social disadvantaged areas or from migrants’ families, students who have special needs.
Teachers as individuals and schools as institutions try to help those students to improve their grades and reduce school failure and early school leaving. From discussions with teachers and students, we realized that children feel more comfortable to be helped by other children.
Groups of talented students with good grades (who are participating in this Erasmus+ project) together with their teachers have identified a number of pupils that need help in order to improve their grades and pass National evaluation. If in one class there has one student who needs help, his or her colleagues has helped with homework, has given advice, stayed together in class at different lessons and has worked together in different projects. Each student that needs help has spent additional hours of after-school help (e.g. At least 3 hours a week preparing for school and 2 hours a week for extracurricular activities).
