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Context, background: Given that the number of pupils with special educational needs is increasing each year, we have schools where the predominant student’s population is Roma, and there is a high school dropout risk, and rural schools are not assigned to a school counselor, we want to create an interdisciplinary program that aims at developing life skills and health education, using learning outcomes achieved in the mobility, focused on cooperative learning, exepriential learning, project-based learning and creating the design of an interdisciplinary course. At the same time, we want to create a workshop for school counselors and speech therapists and another workshop for the interested teachers. To achieve this goal, 8 educational experts, school counselors, will participate in workshops, job shadowing and a structured course in Norway and Iceland. On their return from mobility, they will form working teams, create the design of an interdisciplinary program focusing on life skills and health education, especially for pupils from disadvantaged groups (minorities, pupils with special educational needs, rural students, pupils with risk of school dropout). Then there will be workshops for school counselors 2 groups of 25 school counselors. There will be dissemination newspapers and magazines, on paper and online. Longer term benefits: increasing school attendance; creating a cross-disciplinary programme, using interactive methods that increase motivation for learning. -the workshop could be included in the training offer of the CJRAE Alba for the future; -the cross-curricular programme could be implemented every year, in another school or different classes.
Summary of project results
To meet needs, eight school counselors participated in 2 learning mobilities aimed at the structured course: "Reaching, teaching and keeping our learners. Methods and approaches to reach and increase retention of disadvantaged learners", InterCultural Iceland, Borgarnes, Iceland and the workshop "Cross-disciplinary teaching - a practical exploration," NewSchool AS, Oslo, Norway. Subsequently, participants in mobilities designed and organized the Workshop "Together for the development of students'' life skills" to empower 100 from Alba County to implement the program for the development of students'' life skills, integrating elements acquired in the two mobility skills. The project team developed two intellectual products designed to support the program''s implementation at the school level: Guide of activities and methods for implementing a program to develop life skills.pdf and TOGETHER-FOR-DEVELOPMENT-OF-LIFE-SKILLS-program- for-students-in-middle-school-and-high school.pdf. By implementing this project, we contributed to the development of professional skills and competencies of 8 teachers school counselors on social inclusion and development of students'' life skills, to the development of teamwork skills for 40 school counselors and 44 teachers as a result of participating in workshop "Together for the development of students'' life skills," 1300 students from Alba County were beneficiaries of the implementation of the program "Together for the development of life skills," 440 parents were informed about the importance of developing children''s life skills for preventing school dropout. The project implemented by CJRAE Alba is part of the institution''s strategy to permanently adapt vocational training services to European standards and provide services and activities that meet the varied needs of students, teachers, and parents. The activities designed within the program for students "Together for the development of life skills" will be offered further after the completion of the project, is included in the offer of services and educational activities of the County Center for Resources and Educational Assistance Alba each school year, being implemented in the form of an optional or educational project.