Problems of dropping out during

the health crisis 

Methods and solutions

 Sanitary confinement 

- Students started distance learning 
on March 16. Full classes at scholl Now : Students half time
- The first students to return from Sept 1 at school
on May 18

To be continued … 
 How to spot dropout with distance ?
Teachers were attentive to ...
• Live presence 
• Answer to the message
• Delivery of work on time
• Quality of the works

 Teachers spend more time discussing and

exchanging to allow better attend
 The difficults
• No computer hardware When a parts of students
• Loose motivation  returns: (2 mornings / week)
• Unable to work
• Students at work Presence is sufficient
• Confusion day/night
• Governement ?
Not obligatory presence 
communication
• Team organisation 
 Numeric fraction
Different reasons
• A part of student haven't possibilities • No internet, no computer, …
to connect with the school.  • Father or mother work at home
• Other can be connected but can't send • Others sisters or brothers work for
the exercices.  school
• Have only a smartphone
• For some, the problem is the ability to • It's the first time they used computer
use a computer, a scanner, a printer program
 Numeric fraction solutions from de CDLys
• The school proposed to lend • Teachers used app to create the
computer for the students exercices. 
who make the demand.  • Students could drop off work at
• School send work in paper school
version
• Teachers used the means of
communication known to our
students in order to guide them
(Messenger, Wathsapp,
Smartschool, …) 
• Teachers organised formations 
 Loos motivation

 The only solution we find is :  Educational team called all 

contact contact contact students and parents of
students who don't send
news.

Loss motivation Communication Disaster

failure
Partners during the lockdown 
The psycho-medico-social center is a extern institution
composed with nurse, psychologist and social worker.
They work normaly at school, they make intervieuw
with student who want speeking about scolar or persnnal
problem. 
During the lock down, the intervieuw continued  by visio,
phone,... 
Parents were at home during the lock-down.
PMS help us to keep the students motivation  Positive or not ? 
Parents help us to motive children. Read message to
explain exercices and more things...
But student can't always have calm and can't be always
concentrate. 
Student at work
Some of our students have gone to
strengthen the teams in retirement homes,
others have gone to earn money in
industries and stores, ...
Change of pace of life
• Change of habits
• Sleeping very late/ no
alarm clock
• Difficults to be active at
home in the mornig  proposed in the
• More gaming, social
network, ….
 Teachers créate some
appoitement in the
mornig
 Live session during the
class hours 
 Working and live
evening 
 Longer deadline
 Governemental communication

The belgian governement
 Loos motivation -
create discord No failure at the end of No new learning
Dropoout 
about education the year
Team orgasation
The students complained about having a lot of work. 
Too much work to be done simultaneously.

Creation and use of an online diary to distribute work

Works interdisciplinary 
 Return of the first students
• About 160 students comeback at school
• For the majority of them, only for the practice courses
• The rest of the lessons: homework

They thought that attendance at school 

was enough and no longer worked at home
 What works? What indispensable?
Communication
 Communication:  Clear, Easy, between
teachers and with students.

 Diversification: Support, matter, game,

accompaniment Diversification live,...

 Contact : Keep régular contact by live,

message, ...

 Adaptation: Planning, hours, kind of works,

spend more time...
Adaptation Contact 
 Accompaniment: Computer training,
individual explain, repeat 
 And Positive ? 

Those for whom confinement has been beneficial? 

More time to work, work at your own pace, when you are in good shape, take the time to catch up, help
parents / brother / sister /friend,  teachers can do individual, ...

We can learn
and remember
from this situation
And let's not forget the others who got hooked and who made
us dream with their creations, funny pics and their messages
of support.
Thanks to our students!