While European countries had made significant progress in lowering VET dropout rates prior to the pandemic, these efforts now risk being challenged by the Coronavirus. We need tools, methodologies and above all an improvement of teachers’ skills in knowing how to motivate and promote “feeling good” at school, essential for managing and preventing early school leaving.
The problem that the 3-H project tries to tackle is precisely the high number of young people in VET pathways who are unmotivated or don’t feel well at school, a problem significantly accentuated by these last two years of the pandemic.
Cedefop insists that VET providers will have to:
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being able to MOTIVATE STUDENTS during their training in a context that, due to Covid, has become very uncertain from both a social and economic point of view;
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put emphasis on PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF TRAINERS to support students in this challenge.