Springboard (Dobbant

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Springboard (Dobbantó) Programme, Hungary
Inclusion- reality or illusion? Ways of
educational and social integration of vocational
school students with SEN (special education
needs) at the risk of drop-out

• Szilvia Schmitsek

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The foundation

• The role of the Public Foundation for the Equal
  Opportunities of People with Disabilities in the
  inclusion process of persons with various
  disadvantages in Hungary
• Founded in 2007, but has a ten years of past
• At present the only public foundation in Hungary
  engaged in disability affairs exclusively.

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Aims

• Aims
• To support the equal opportunities, the social
  inclusion and the complex rehabilitation of
  people with disabilities
• To coordinate the activities of various
  stakeholders involved in the rehabilitation
  process.
• Measures
• Call for tenders, service development, 62
  different initiatives.

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Key activities

• Providing accessibility to various services
• Education and training (inclusive and high
  quality services for professionals in terms of
  Lifelong Learning)
• Rehabilitation (broad and complex services from
  medical measures to the open labor market
  integration)
• Participation in the mainstream cultural life,
  free time activities and sport.

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The operation of the Foundation

• An Advisory Board with 11 members and a Board of
  Supervision with 5 members
• An Office with 45 colleagues
• Admin
• Financial Group
• Program Office of Education and Training
• Program Office of Rehabilitation
• Hungarian Sign Language Program Office
• Program Office of Accessibility
• Project Office of Dobbantó

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Dobbantó programme

• Purpose
• Purpose of Dobbantó is to establish and try out
  an
• institution development programme able to
• prepare vocational schools eff ectively to reduce
• drop-out rate from 2008-2011 and to prepare
• unskilled early school-leaver adolescents with
  SEN,
• suffering from cognitive function and/or
• behavioural disorders to enter the world of work.

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Background

• Legal background
• 126 of the Act LXXIX. of 1993 on Public
  Education
• Professional background
• Prevention Accomodation Protection, SZFP-I,
• SZFP-II, EQUAL, NFT HEFOP 3.1.1. and 2.1.b
• International relations
• The European Association of Cities, Institutes
  and
• Second Chance Schools APS International, Utrecht

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Dobbantó schools
Miskolc
Nyírbátor
Budapest
Szolnok
Tapolca
Békéscsaba
Kecskemét
Iregszemcse
Szabadkígyós
Kiskunfélegyháza
Pécs
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Basic philosophy
challange
support
trust
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Participants
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Resources of support

• Student Teacher
• individual assessment plan student contract
  individual development plan competence-based
  programme package life-career model
• Teacher Change facilitating mentor
• use of adaptive and differentiated teaching
  methods learning support resources self
  improvement mentoring career-guidance
  cooperation
• School management edu-coach
• assessment of school and developing school
  improvement plan support of implementation
  relations to the world of work
• Institution
• analysis of present state school improvement
  plan competence-based programme package
• Change facilitating mentor and edu-coach regular
  professional support
• trainings case discussions

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Curriculum 1

• Aim each student achieves basic competencies
  that will enable him/her to plan and organise
  his/her own career successfully, be it in school
  (vocational or general) or in the labour market
  (getting an appropriate job and holding on to it)
  
• Competencies to be developed as part of general
  education
• Communication competencies
• Learning competencies
• Competencies pertaining to social and healthy
  lifestyle
• Module system educational programme package to
  support personalised teaching-learning process No
  subjects
• Orientation acquisition application, transfer

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Curriculum 2

• Bridge to the world of work
• The specific aim of this Bridge is to prepare
  for and assist each student in the transition
  from education to the world of work career
  orientation and guidance.
• Competencies to be developed as part of Bridge
• Basic employment and career building competences
  e.g.
• Self awareness and self organisation
• Competencies for adapting to change
• Entrepreneurial skills/competence
• Labour related competencies
• School situations, The Be Real Game, job
  shadowing and real work experiences

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Students support

• Efforts for students take as much responsibility
  for themselves as possible formative assessment
• Teachers play key roles
• Teamwork
• Supporting partner system
• Contracts
• Private sessions each week
• Complex support based on individual needs

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Thank you for your kind attention
Dobbantó project leader Mari Bognár
bognar.maria_at_fszk.hu Dobbantó project
managerSzilvia Schmitsek 1139 Budapest, Pap
Károly u. 4-6.(36-1)450-3236mobile
36-30-756-8880 www.fszk.hu/dobbanto