Școala – acel loc atractiv în care îți dorești să fii

Abstract

The most effective way to prevent and combat school dropout is to make the school an attractive, desirable place where students come with pleasure, and one of the methods is to involve them in extracurricular activities that give them the opportunity to demonstrate their creativity and thus feel useful and appreciated. The teacher's mission must be to stimulate students' imagination, enthusiasm and desire to express themselves and their aspirations. As part of an international partnership, I coordinated a complex photography and graphics project, intertwining art with science and aiming to promote school attraction and combat absenteeism and school dropout. The stages of the project were: the development of logos, the decoration and aesthetic arrangement of some spaces of the school, the design of posters with positive messages ("We love school!") and the making of photographs that capture art intertwined with science. Dozens of students from our school enthusiastically engaged with their creations, impressing with imagination, ingenuity, skill, making them connect more with the school environment, teamwork, socializing and making friends, factors that make them they make students become an integral part of the school they attend.