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.
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.