In our desire to provide a greater multiculturalism project we tried to find member countries which belong to different geographic areas since the physical distance between countries confers a greater cultural diversity. Therefore, the project is integrated with countries from the Northeast of Europe, including Latvia, Mediterranean countries such as Spain and Greece, Balkan countries as Croatia and Central European countries as The Czech Republic.
Riga 22 Secondary School is situated in Riga, the capital of Latvia. Our school has got a long history (it was founded in 1945). Nowadays there are more than 600 students and more than 50 teachers.
General education program is offered to students in secondary (high) school. It is based on the equitable distribution of natural-scientific and humanitarian cycles. Our school develops the skills of the students, prepares them for university and makes them ready to get fit with the world of work. In the 2017-2018 school year, the educational process is carried out in six buildings, four housing primary classes and the other two housing the secondary school and high school classes; there are 42 classrooms, of which: • special classrooms for Mathematics, Latvian, Foreign Languages, History • classrooms for Physics, Chemistry, Biology • 2 special classrooms for Informatics • 1 gym • new sports grounds • 1 library The classrooms and workshops are equipped with appropriate teaching material and technical equipment. Our school is a school with a general education. Much attention is paid to bilingual and CLIL education, because there are students from bilingual families. In addition, much attention is paid to the development of teamwork skills, a competent approach in the study of subjects. For students with special needs for training there is a special teacher. Our school is the school where understand how important is to balance the study and the individuality of the child. Many students (11-19) take part in Debate studio. They participate in international competitions and win prizes. They can debate in Latvian, Russian and English.
Our basic school of Jubilejní Masarykova is located near the old town centre and Třinec ironworks. Part of pupils attending our school come from poor families, they are very socially disadvantaged children. Currently we have 544 students aged between 3 and 15 and at school there work 38 teachers. Our school has special classes with extended teaching of Mathematics, so we still look for different methods to help the students with improving their knowledge and increasing their interest of Mathematics and Science in general. As well we want to improve students communication in English. The key people in charge of running the project in the school will be: Our headteacher, who actively looks for new projects for school, organizes and leads leisure groups. She also prepares pupils for math competitions, organizes regional rounds of Mathematical Olympiad. And two english teacher, one English teacher is active member of eTwinning platform.She leads leisure groups of the English language in kindergarten and 1st and 2nd classes. She is actively involved in projects eTwinning, Erasmus + KA2 Strategic partnerships, Erasmus + KA 1, support conversational skills of teachers.The another English teacher is also active member of eTwinning platform. She is the school coordinator of environmental education and integration into the international GLOBE program. She is also actively involved in projects Erasmus + KA2 Strategic partnerships, Erasmus + KA 1. We have a very stable staff in which all teachers have a permanent contract, so it the future nobody is going to change the workplace. Even so, if this happened the headteacher will appoint new coordinators to the function. Our school has experiences in implementing various projects, both national and international.
Our project in the school web
Our project in the school web
Modal Experimental Lower Secondary School of Heraklion is a public high school with 240 pupils aged 12 to 15 years. Includes 24 high qualified teachers of various specialties. The school’s curriculum is based on the National Curriculum of Greece, but can also be differentiated according to the specific traced needs or teachers’ availability. It is one of the main objectives of the school to experiment with innovative teaching methods and good educational practices. The school has established a long term partnership with the University of Crete and offers the opportunity for teaching practice to students from the University. Also, the school organizes a great range of optional extra curriculum classes for it’s pupils on various subjects, such as photography, theatre, handicrafts, robotics, astronomy, and web page design. One of the main tasks of our school is to experiment on new teaching methods and produce new educational material. We seek to cooperate with schools and other educational institutions in order to exchange ideas, share good practices and make the teaching process more effective. Hopefully, the specific project will give the opportunity to teachers and pupils to search for more creative and enjoyable ways of teaching science through an non academic discipline such as physical education. Moreover, it is a great opportunity for our pupils to come in contact with pupils of different background and culture.
Τhe school’s staff includes a team of highly qualified and very experienced teachers. Our school every year participates in various scientific projects and encourages pupils’s participation in contests on physics, chemistry, mathematics and technology on national level. Teaching is often based on interdisciplinary and cross curricular projects and teachers cooperate with each other in order to enhance pupils’ engagement and understanding of difficult subjects.
Our school is situated in the Capital City of Croatia, Zagreb, near the river Sava in the central part of Croatia. In the school year 2017/2018. The elementary school of Fran Galovićstarts with 700 pupils deployed in 28 classes (15 classes I - IV and 13 V-VIII classes). In the school there is a program of extended stay for 6 groups of 1st and 2nd class. The elementary school of Fran Galović organizes and conducts educational activities in the area published in the Official Gazette of the City of Zagreb No. 9 of 30 June 1992. In the school year 2017/2018. a total of 70 school staff were employed in the school. All classes are covered professionally. The expert services are: pedagogues, psychologists, speech therapists and librarian. Our school tends to do better and to offfer new posibilities for our students and teachers. We would like to do science ant mathematics through games so teachers would learn some new work methods, and for students to bi more active paricipants, to see advantages of science in everyday life an to encourage them to observe environment, to analize and to think about solutions for some problems.Collaborative learning and teamwork gave us opotunity to be part of Micro: bit revolution and to do science project that includes gifted students and students with difficulties. Also we have a great cooperation with local science institues that help us to do our projects and our students go there to learn in situ. Our teachers, professional associates and principals hold lectures at various professional conferences, from the municipal to the international level. The school is the seat of the workout for students from the Department of Pedagogy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb. Structured work with potentially gifted students involves 5 licensed teachers working with gifted students in classroom and computer science.
Nuestra Señora del Socorro school is in Benetússer, a small town on the outskirts of Valencia, 5 minutes from the city center. We are a private concerted Diocesan College, depending on the Parish
of Nuestra Señora del Socorro in Benetússer and therefore the Archbishop of Valencia. Currently we have 1,000 students aged between 3 and 18 who come from both Benetússer and Valencia and other surroundings. In our center we work 79 teachers, 4 secretaries and 2 caretakers. The center is divided into 2 separate buildings: one for the stages of infant, primary and first cycle of secundary and the other one for 2nd cycle of secundary and baccalaureate.
Also we have our own sports club, Club Deportivo Nuestra Señora del Socorro, a private non-profit association with legal personality and capacity to act itself, whose sole purpose the promotion and practice of physical activity and sport in the federative level, since 1986. The motivation of our school is the same as that of the project itself: the search for new methodologies and approaches aimed at making the subjects of science and mathematics easier to understand, in order to reduce school failure. Our school is committed to educational innovation and teacher training in new methodologies.
The members of the European projects department of our school will be directly responsible for the project. At the head of the department are Raúl Bueno, headteacher and professor of biology, and José Vicente Martínez, professor of PE; both coordinators of the Erasmus+ project that our school is currently developing. The rest of the members of the department are a representative of each of the didactic departments (foreign language, science, etc). We have experience in European projects: during the 2016-17 and 2017-18 courses, we have developed an Erasmus+ project whose main axis is the practice of sports and the benefits of physical activity.
