Target 1: Active Engagement by Students – Learning by doing and active involvement in lessons, exploring new methodologies of teaching and learning to engage ALL students coming from different backgrounds and having different abilities. Target 2: Assessment – Finding different assessment tools which respect different learning styles and self-directed learning. Formative vs summative assessment -assessment for students’ self improvement and not only for marking purposes. Target 3: Pre-School Education The NCF (2012) also acknowledges the importance of a good preschool education. The European Pillar of Social Rights (Chapter 3: Social Protection and Inclusion, Point 11) underscores that children have the right to affordable early childhood education and care of good quality. Target 4: Doing it Together – Discussing methodologies and planning and providing input to lessons, together (teachers and LSEs), attending training courses on a European level to work with our counterparts in European Schools.
At St Albert the Great College, inclusion and active learning of all our students have always been at the heart of our focus and development. In the last two years we have been working on developing and implementing a new School Developmental Plan under the general title of "Dissolving Fences". Through a number of meetings and workshops with all our staff we have identified areas of development which we want to work on. In summary training of staff members is needed to acquire more competences to deal with the challenges being faced by the school in the coming years. Continuous advancement of education and training is of profound importance if the school is to reach its own targets, the National and also the European targets.