Európska kvalita našej školy

Start date 01-12-2017–End date 30-11-2018

EU Grant–19.955,00 €

Programme–Erasmus+

Key Action:

Learning Mobility of Individuals

Action Type:

School education staff mobility

Countries covered–3

Coordinator

Gymnázium, Pankúchova 6, Bratislava

Pankúchova 6

851 04 Bratislava

Bratislavský kraj

🇸🇰 Slovakia

Coordinator Type: School/Institute/Educational centre – General education (secondary level)

Phone: +262312706

Summary

Among all the factors which influence the running of any school, it is the quality of teaching staff that plays the key role. The effort to create a pedagogically and professionally erudite team of teachers interested in lifelong learning is the basis of a good school. Teachers who lack such attributes are unable to guarantee high quality in education and upbringing even if all the other conditions are provided. On the other hand, high quality teachers can, to a certain extent, compensate for worse conditions in educational process. Having the top teachers in the school system is determined by the attractiveness of teaching profession. The attractiveness does not depend solely on adequate salary, conditions for personal development, work conditions and public recognition, but also on career prospects and opportunities for professional growth.

For this reason, our school has decided to participate in Erasmus + programme and send 6 teachers and 1 school executive, the deputy headmaster, to take part in the educational programmes. Three of the teachers will improve their methodological competencies in teaching English as a foreign language and the other three will improve their competencies in CLIL courses. We would like to incorporate new trends CLIL method in teaching biology, European studies and geography in the bilingual section in our school.

Despite being the co-authors of a unique study programme called European Studies and pioneers in implementing it into the eight-year study programme and five-year bilingual programme, we can see the space for improvement. Perceiving the changes in society and new trends in education, we feel that we must react with high degree of flexibility and must not rest on our laurels.

The school inspection findings and the results of the official testing leave no doubts that the system of bilingual education is highly efficient and also very attractive for the students. We would like to contribute to the positive changes in the Slovak educational system, whose results fall behind the European standard. In order to succeed, we think it is inevitable to provide opportunities for professional growth of our teachers and thus increase the attractiveness of teaching profession. Highly-skilled teachers and well-functioning school management must present the results which will convince the officials who hold the future of our education in their hands.

The improvements in school management, which could create more positive school atmosphere, seem to be of equal importance. By taking part in a mobility project, we expect positive results in the area of communication, financial management, and project management. The school managers have an ambition to implement new ideas in school environment. They plan to use the acquired skills in communication and negotiations with the Ministry of Education and Bratislava self-governing region authority. We hope to create new school legislative proposals. We would like to use the new skills in international projects.

In accordance with the objectives of the National Programme for the Development of Education, our school would like to create a new form of school culture which will be carried out by the co-operative management and the team of highly-skilled professionals – the teachers in our school. The cultivation of open communication and developing a supporting and positive school atmosphere with zero tolerance of mobbing, bossing and undignified behaviour towards the adults and children is the key task for all school professionals as well as for the non-teaching staff.

We dare to hope that the teachers who will participate in the mobility programmes will form new project partnerships on international level, which will lead to the school´s registration in e-Twinning database. WEBPAGE: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/projects/search/details/2017-1-SK01-KA101-035195

Partners

BIEDRIBA EUROFORTIS 🇱🇻 Latvia

ANNINMUIZAS BULVARIS 38-37

1067 RIGA

🇱🇻 Latvia

Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise

Phone: +37127763451

The Education & Training Company Limited 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

38 Binsey Lane

OX2 0EY Oxford

Outer London

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Partner Type: School/Institute/Educational centre – General education (secondary level)

Phone: +441227762111