How to work with young people with poor school performance

From a systemic perspective , school failure occurs when an education system fails to provide fair and inclusive education services that lead to enriching student learning. At the school level, school failure can be defined as the incapacity of a school to provide fair and inclusive education and an adequate learning environment for students to achieve the outcomes worthy of their effort andability. From an individual perspective , school failure can be defined as the failure of a student to obtain a minimum level of knowledge and skills, which can at the extreme lead to dropping out of school.¹

Students bring to the classroom different prior knowledge that substantially influences their learning process, and there is a constant and complex interaction between capacity and experience that shapes learning and as a result, young people learn at different paces  and teachers  have to adjust to these and develop diversified pedagogical practices to cater for this wide variety of learning needs. This is often very complex and demanding from the teachers who are often used to the formal, directive teaching approach, and don’t often used participant, or learner-centered methods.

Overarching goal is to empower young people and to help them increase their perception of control over their environment by showing them how to better manage their own lives. Instead of telling youngsters to act differently, this tool kit provides ideas to teach them how to act differently by