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EU Education ministers have set themselves priority areas for joint policy work: To ensure that all pupils gain the competences they need in the rapidly changing knowledge society. This includes: increasing levels of literacy and numeracy and modernising curricula, learning materials and pupil assessment. To provide high-quality learning for every student. Improving equity in school systems involves making high quality pre-school education widely available, reducing early school leaving and improving support within mainstream schooling for students with special needs. To improve support for teachers, school leaders and teacher educators, through more effective recruitment and selection and better-quality professional education. This publication shows the close links between European school policy developments and the Comenius projects implemented in the field. In the following pages you will find an introduction to the topics and a selection of Comenius projects classified around five themes: Chapter 1: Literacy Chapter 2: Maths, Science and Technology Chapter 3: Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Chapter 4: Early School Leaving (ESL) and Chapter 5: Teaching Professions: Teachers, Teacher Educator, School leaders The project descriptions contain basic information on each project and its participants, together with links to more information. To learn more: http://ec.europa.eu/education/comenius/participate_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme/comenius_en.htm 6
Chapter 1: Literacy In the modern 21st-century society in which we live, literacy has become more essential than ever before. This raises the importance and urgency of ensuring that Europeans acquire effective reading and writing skills from an early age. Despite the EU’s high standards of education, some young people fall through the literacy net for a diversity of complex reasons. There is no single cause of poor literacy and, hence, no magic pill or cure for it. Given the complexity and interrelatedness of the challenges involved, effectively addressing illiteracy and poor literacy requires the commitment and active engagement of a wide range of actors. Member States have a shared interest in improving literacy standards and improving reading literacy. As this was one of the first objectives of the Commission's 'Education and Training' work programme, launched in 2002, it was re-confirmed as a priority for 2010-2020. Member States have committed to reduce the ratio of low-achieving 15year-olds in reading literacy to 15% at most by 2020. In 2011 the European Commission established a High Level Group of Experts in the field of literacy (HLG). This group examined how to support literacy throughout lifelong learning, identified common success factors of literacy programmes and policy initiatives and came up with proposals for improving literacy. The HLG concluded its work and published its final report in September 2012. The report states that literacy is a fundamental requirement for citizens of all ages in modern Europe. Changes in the nature of work, the economy, and society more generally are making good literacy skills even more important. Achieving real improvement in literacy requires political ownership and cooperation across the policy spectrum and beyond. The group's report seeks to raise awareness of the literacy crisis affecting all Member States and provides recommendations on how to solve it. Schools, teachers and parents have a crucial role to play in nurturing the literacy of children and young people, while other key players, such as local authorities, training institutions, libraries play important supporting roles. Therefore, close coordination, co-operation and partnerships promoted by the Comenius programme are essential if initiatives to develop literacy skills in children and young people are to succeed. In the following pages, there are several good examples of Comenius projects that contribute to the improvement the literacy skills in young people; they are very varied in terms of focus and types of authorities but they all implement strategies and measures that lead to concrete results and impacts. Many of them address teacher's competencies and teaching strategies; other focus on the learning processes of children particularly those with low reading and writing skills. Most of the projects profit from the possibilities offered by ICT as a teaching and learning tool and as an effective way of motivating pupils and teachers as well as a means to sustain their outcomes and results. The project also highlights the relevance of the involvement of teacher training institutions, parents and other organizations as libraries involvement in the partnerships can contribute to a comprehensible approach to improve literacy. To learn more: http://ec.europa.eu/education/literacy/index_en.htm 7
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