29-07-16 Supportive teaching induction programme for students at over 1,000 schools

 The aim of this project, which will cover and benefit 1,117 schools, with an 8.76 million euro budget, is to develop and monitor an independent supportive teaching programme for groups of junior high school (gymnasia) students who face learning problems.

The purpose of supportive teaching is the student’s re-induction into the learning process, reducing the dropout rate, facilitating the access of students to the educational system and their full participation, and achieving improved performance without expenditures for supplemental extra-school lessons.

More specifically, the objective of the supportive teaching programme is the successful completion of mandatory education (junior high school, or gymnasio) and the ability to gain access to high school (lykeio).

Consequently, the supportive teaching programme will focus especially on schools that show especially high rates of school failure, in order to create conditions that prevent and address social exclusion while upgrading the quality of education.

In the framework of the supportive teaching programme, students may attend, indicatively, lessons in language instruction (ancient and modern Greek), mathematics, physics, chemistry, and other subjects.

A forthcoming Ministerial Decision will determine the details of the organisation and operation of the programmes, the process of selecting the school centres where they will be implemented, the course curriculum, the employment framework for staff, and all issues pertaining to the programmes.

A supervisor, whose gross monthly salary cannot exceed 150 euros, will be appointed at each school centre.