Msodik Esly Second Chance

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Második EsélySecond Chance

• Marianna Farkas Zoltán Györgyi
• OTE- National Transit Employment Association
• Institute for Higher Education Research

GOLD KICK-OFF MEETING in Winschoten November,
2005.
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Our targets

• To give chances for socially handicapped pupils
• To work out and test a new curriculum for teacher
  training
• To give recommendations for education policy

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Recommandations for education policy

• To renew the vocational education
• Trades
• Teaching methods
• Relation between schools and pupils
• Relation between schools and companies
• Financing

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Why?

• New situation
• Expansion of education ? changing of social
  background
• New structure of education ? general education on
  9-10th level
• School training instead of company training
• New situation on labour market
• Problems to be faced
• No program for socially handicapped pupils
• Motivation
• Learning autonomy
• No relevant teaching methods
• Teachers competencies are not relevant
• No relevant teacher training curricula

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Consequences

• High drop out rate
• Many unskilled pupils leave schools
• Lack of learning autonomy ?? retraining courses
• Lack of skilled workers with marketable trades.
• ?
• High unemployment rate
• Lack of retrain courses for social handicapped
  people
• Lack of social handicapped people on retrain
  courses

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What?

• Experiment transition of experiences of civil
  organisations into vocational education
• Experiments in (traditional) vocational schools
  in order to add new elements in vocational
  training
• Feedback on experiments to develop a new teacher
  training curricula

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National Development PartnersMap of the project
activity

• OTE EMDTIA

Második Esély
EMDTIASZ
KKI
PH-FKI
EKF
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National Partners their role in Second Chance

• OTE National Transit Employment Association
  Transnational subproject, dissemination
  subproject and subproject for publicity and media
  
• EMDTIA First Danish-Hungarian Production School
  Foundation
• EMDTIASZ Vocational School of the First
  Danish-Hungarian Production School Foundation
  plan implement the model experiment
• KKI Institute for Minority Research vocational
  school subproject
• PH-FKI Professors House Higher Educational
  Research Institute follow-up, research and
  policy subproject
• EKF Eszterházy Teacher Training College
  pedagogical training subproject

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OTE-National Transit Employment Association
(Project Leader)

• Major fields of activity within the Second
  Chance
• Coordination of the project adminitration
• Responsible for transnational cooperations
• Dissemination of the given results

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Background of OTE

• Established 1999 by vocational organizations
  implemented vocational training and employment
  programmes
• Founded with the intention of enhancing civil
  organizations collaboration in the field of
  transit employment
• Facilitate the adaptation of experience and
  useful methods from abroad
• Encourage the cooperation of civil organizations
  of public utility and the state institutions
  working in the field of employment service
• Target group young disadvantaged people lack of
  certificate and profession
• Methodology of transit employment (chart)

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Preparation phase
Aftercare, follow-up phase
Employment is not supported
P s y c h o s o c i
a l c a r e
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Model experiment at the First Danish-Hungarian
Production School Foundation

• Target group, participants in the experiment
• Drop-out young people in the region of Zala
  county
• Regional characteristics the rate of the
  unemployed young people is enormous, most of them
  not completed their elementary studies
• 30 of them are Roma people between 16-25 without
  school certificate
• Disadvantaged at socio-economic level lacking
  generic skills (ability for life-long learning,
  communicative competence, problem-solving
  competence, ability for work in team, creative
  way of thinking, ICT learning)
• Low self-esteem, not having future plans
• Instable family ties and background

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Methodology of the model experiment

• Major elements
• Applies the methods of transit employment
• Partnership with the local authorities,
  municpalities, social sevices and associations
• Special emphasis on individual needs and
  abilities
• Psycho-social care considering the individual
  training paths tailor-made to meet the needs of
  each young person
• The process of basic skills acquisition
  (numeracy, literacy and social skills) combined
  with practical training
• Intensive vocational educational guidance

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Report on the model experiment

• Training from September has launched in two
  professions roofing contractor 14 persons,
• ornamental gardeners 8 persons
• Duration of training is 2 year long
• The curriculum emphasises the improvement of
  vocational skills 23 model theoratical lessons
  2 days of a week practice and work 3 days of a
  week
• Their training is financially supported by the
  First Danish-Hungarian Production School
  Foundation
• Participants get scholarship monthly

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Involved vocational schools

• Jászapáti
• Experiment in one selected class (at age 15)
• (25 students, vocational field agricultural
  mechanic or wood industry)
• New timetable
• New methods in curriculum
• New methods in career orientation
• Cooperation with local companies and SMEs
• Relation between families and school
• Tamási