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DISCOVER Best practices with Disadvantaged people

DISCOVER Best practices with Disadvantaged people. Hungary 5 – 9 October 2011. Immigrants and ethnic minorities Unemployed , people with low or no income Disabled (physically, mentally), with psychological problems Prisioners People living far from cities

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DISCOVER Best practices with Disadvantaged people

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  1. DISCOVER Bestpractices with Disadvantagedpeople Hungary 5 – 9 October 2011

  2. Immigrantsand ethnic minorities • Unemployed, people with low or no income • Disabled(physically, mentally), with psychological problems • Prisioners • People livingfar from cities • Low education: Illiterate, school drop-outs, school failure, no schooling… • Singlemothers, victims of domesticviolence. • Elderlypeople RECAP

  3. We are a second opportunity school, so our students are ALL somehow “disadvantaged”

  4. DEPARTMENT OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING • The Department of Guidance and Counselling is a key stone when dealing with disadvantaged students. • The school counselor meets the needs of the students and helps them with three main domains: • Academic development: getting sure they´re fit in the right course, subject… • Career development • Personal/social development: when the student´s behaviour , background, etc is interfering with his/her achievement

  5. DROPOUT PREVENTION PROGRAM • Many students start at our school and they never finish mainly because they find difficulty in acquiring the aims of the curriculum. • To avoid this, we offer • Extra support lessons • Remedial classes • Literacy and Pre-secondary Education Courses • for students with risk factors for dropout.

  6. To get the driving license it is necessary to pass a test which requires a right level of reading comprehension.Some students can´t get this level: COURSES ON READING COMP FOR THE DRIVING THEORY TEST • Disabled • Inmmigrants • Ethnic minorities • Elderly people

  7. How can we help them? • Improving their self-esteem • Working out their reading comprehension • Teaching them the mechanism to answer multiple choice tests • Advising and being with them in the final test

  8. Shifts, • Tutorials, • Distance and presence education OTHER

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