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Centar za osobni rast i razvoj "Usudi se misliti"
Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

GOALS The school wants to improve all areas of the school curriculum, especially personal and social development, human resources management, language and communication skills, natural sciences and art .In order to enable teachers and students to creative and critical thinking and peer learning we intend to form a Personal growth and Development Centre-Dare to think, which will involve all school teachers. Plan and programme will create those who have undergone training sessions. The program would be upgraded during the school year and implemented in school curriculum for 2015/16. Since each teacher and principal involved in the project represent a particular area our aim is to unify and implement the acquired knowledge in Centre's work. Basic goals are: 1. curriculum improvement and development 2. lifelong learning promotion 3. human resources management and development of the European dimension of school 4. implementation and development of new teaching and learning methods 5. peer learning and teaching development 6. Language competence improvement of all employees The school will develop new curricular themes and programmes in sustainable development and peer coaching therefore it needs to increase the participants skills in: human resources and school management (principal), language competence (all participants), new teaching methods (all participants), creative and critical thinking (the class teacher and biology and chemistry teacher), peer coaching and learning (psychologist). 400 students and 5 teachers (including principal) will participate in the project through: regular classes (from 1st to 4th class, Italian language, Biology, Chemistry), extracurricular activities (Literary Club, Drama section, Young ecologists, Debate Club), subject correlation and new curricular areas (sustainable school, peer coaching and learning for students and teachers). School itself will continue to cooperate with schools in Europe through contacts established in teaching assignments, eTwinning projects and job shadowing. Finding partners Italian teacher intends to continue her successful cooperation with school in Ankara, Turkey which started a year ago. Therefore, eTwinning database will be used to expand a list of European schools for new projects in near future. Professional training org., were found by using School Education Gateway and In Service training. The selection criteria is the organisers experience in teaching and training and the relevant topics were chosen in accordance with a purpose and goals of our project. Selected carriers have long experience and they led daily activities and workshops exposed by the world's experts in these areas. Activities - preparatory and implementing activities Dissemination Dissemination activities will be covered in four areas: 1.) Institutional (school) level - each participant will give a lecture and a workshop for Teacher Council members (43), five lectures and workshops in total, radio show for all students will cover each theme and the progress of the project (five short shows). School website will be updated regularly. 2.) Regional level- all participants will hold lectures in County level meetings for principals, Italian teachers, Biology and Chemistry teachers, Class teacher and Psychologists. Local media cooperation- we shall inform local press (Novi list), radio stations (Primorski radio, Radio Rijeka ) TV stations ( Kanal Ri, RiTV) in order to inform our community about the project. 3.) State level- Participants will held lectures on state level meetings. 4.) European cooperation- will be held through contacts with other European teachers using the eTwinning portal and e-mail. Evaluation Evaluation will include these activities: all kind of work reports for regular classes, work reports for extracurricular activities, surveys on students motivation and class satisfaction during and after the project, organizing and participating in competitions and other forms of educational research. Learning outcomes Teachers (5) will be able to: improve human resources and managements techniques, communicate in foreign languages more efficiently, apply new teaching methods and improve regular and extracurricular classes, implement critical and creative methods in everyday work as well as using peer learning and coaching basics to improve their competence. Students (400) will be able to communicate better in foreign language, devise new teaching methods, think critically and discuss a possible problem solving, perceive causal connections, propose activities and make a plan for a sustainable school, monitor their own progress and successfully communicate with each other. Institution (school) will improve the quality of regular class and extracurricular activities permanently, use new and better curriculum to increase enrollment, improve and enhance the European dimension and promote lifelong learning as an important segment of labour improvement.
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