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This module focuses on how to unveil the interests and aptitudes of students, in order to plan and implement personalized educational paths and guidance services to valorise these talents through curricular and extracurricular activities and motivate the students to stay at school.

Capitalise on pupils interests and skills

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Chapter 5: Collection of best practices, experiences, success stories
How to use success stories in class + Online Resources
Most of the success stories present a case which was successfully solved. Case studies are a form of problem-based learning, where you present a situation with a problem that requires a solution. Case studies are a great way to improve learning and training because they get the learner involved. Case studies can be a very effective classroom technique as students learn better from examples than from logical development of a theory. Most case assignments require students to answer open-ended questions whereas case studies usually generate animated class discussion. Case studies engage students in discussion of specific situations. Case learning enhances communication and critical thinking skills as students apply knowledge, evaluate options and negotiate suggestions in order to solve the problem. Students learn to listen to each other, to respect their peers’ opinions, to contest other people’s ideas by using well-constructed arguments, and to work in a group to solve a problem. In this process students are taught to appreciate other people’s contributions while improving their own ability to think creatively and communicate effectively.

Beyond discussion and small group work, there are a number of techniques that can be used to enhance the case study method. An innovative approach to case analysis might be to have students role-play the part of the people involved in the case. The online success stories can help students visualize the situation that they need to analyse. Students will take the initiative to become fully involved, so that topics are no longer treated as abstract ideas, be part of the students’ real world situations.

Requesting students to develop case studies based on personal interests and experience is another way of using this technique. The class discussion can also be continued on a class blog, or on Twitter. This will enable the students to reflect on their positions and the teacher to track their discussions over time.
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Date: 2016.09.02

Posted by Christine CLOES - Belgique

The strength of this module is to gather (and remind) important theoretical principles (as learning styles, multiple intelligences…) and practical advice to cultivate the students’ talents and interests,for example planning extracurricular activities, developing entrepreneurial experiences at school, etc.

Date: 2016.08.03

Posted by M.J. Romero - Spain

Interesting collection of online sources. Very complete and with different approaches.

Date: 2016.07.10

Posted by Liliana Cannone - Italy

The most interesting and functional section for the type of students F.Datini IPS is the "SKILL & JOBS", to deepen the profile of the professionals and the levels of skills within the school.
Furthermore, the analysis of the job profiles of the different countries involved in the project highlights the actual demand in the labor market. It would be useful to have in the Italian language test to use them in school with our students. The clearly structured site, has a dress simple and straightforward graphics, and is quite simple to find the inserted content

Date: 2016.07.07

Posted by Rouquette-Salerno Laetitia - France

The modules are really interesting and relevant

Date: 2016.07.06

Posted by Cristina Farzi - Romania

The module focuses on how to unveil the interests and aptitudes of students in order to plan and implement personalized educational paths and guidance services which successfully valorise students’ talents. As balancing theory and practice is one of the principles of this tool the second module starts from theoretical considerations on interests, aptitudes and key competences as well as school autonomy and learning styles, which are practically supported by useful hands-on curricular and extracurricular activities, teaching methods used to capitalize on students’ interests and skills and an impressive collection of best practices, experiences, success stories as well as tips on how to use them in class. The chapter also highlights the important of parent involvement in children’s development and success at school and in life.

Date: 2016.07.06

Posted by Elza Gheorghiu - Romania

The modules provide teachers and counsellors with invaluable online materials which can help them with:
- a conceptual and theoretical framework
- tools/ techniques to use
- activities to carry out
- examples of best practice
- case studies

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