1st Second Chance School of Trikala Vasilis Gougas ( Vice Director of 1 st Second Chance School ) 1 st Second Chance School

Have you ever been to a Second Chance School? Do you Know what exactly is? Is there a Second Chance School at your region/city?

The early beginning White Bible of EU (November, 1995) the five Main Goals: -Encouragement for new knowledge -Cooperation between schools and social environment -No social exclusion -Educational investment is equal to financial investment -Three languages of EU

Phase 1: Experimental Project (1997 – 2001) First 13 Second Chance Schools: Athens Bilbao and Barcelona (Spain) Catania (Italy) Seixal (Portugal) Hammenlinna (Finland) Koln and Hale (Germany) Marseille (France) e.t.c ( other four at Sweden, Great Britain, Netherlands and Denmark)

Outcomes Diploma equal to High School Certificate (Greece and Germany) Non typical Educational System (Other Countries except GRE and DE) Skills (through trainning) to enforce their working and social status (e.g vulnerable social groups)

Phase 2: Greek Second Chance Schools 66 Schools, 8 of them in prisons - Staff from Greek Ministry of Education (most of them Certified by EOPPEP) - Certified Adult Educators with fixed-term contract - Psychologist Consultant (fixed-term) -Career Consultant (fixed-term) -Volunteers (at different fields…)

Greek Second Chance Schools 2 years of studies (not 3 as typical) (A Level and B Level) From Monday to Friday 15 th of September to 15 th of June (16-30 special period) Evening Hours Morning Hours (only in prisons) Continuous staff training (Adult Education)

Greek Second Chance Schools Open Curriculum Studies Learning Contract Multiliteracies - Greek Literacy (Greek Language and literature) - Numeracy Literacy (Mathematics) - Information Technology Literacy (Digital Citizen) - English Literacy (English Language) - Science Literacy (Physics, Chemistry and Biology) - Environmental Literacy - Social Literacy (e.g Audiovisual Communication, laws, views) - Cultural Literacy (Theatre, Cinema, Music, History, Art)

Innovating Methods Adult Learning Methods As (Role Play, Brainstorming, Case Studies, Groups, Art it e.t.c.) Individualized learning Continuous curriculum re-conformation Projects Usage of Information Technology Exchange of “good” practice No Books (electronic portfolio and other material) P.S. Most of our “good” practices are adopted

Learning Outcomes On completion of his/her studies, the student will be in a position to: -Develop analytical and synthetic skills -Learn how to learn… -Critical thinking Evaluation ? Most of our graduates continue their studies!

Open School Connection with Local Community (e.g. recycling and management, mammography, Pap smear tests for 1500 women (Municipality of Trikala)) Certification of ICT Skills Erasmus KA1+ Actions (Adult Education) Erasmus KA2 Actions (In the Future….) Powerful links of graduates…. Collaboration with researchers at the scientific field of Adult Education (At least 20 Master Thesis and Papers)

Connection with Local Community

Greece Against CA

Second Chance School and e- Facilitation

Powerful Links…..

Theatre

Collaboration with Greek Researchers

Thank you for your time!! Any Questions?

Shall we play a game? Everyone will take a A4 paper and stick it on his/her back In circular way you are going to write on everyone else back (paper) a good characteristic that you believe he/she holds We stop when everyone writes to everyone! We take it as a souvenir!!!