With the implementation of the project at school we aimed to: - raise the quality of classroom teaching, - develop or update teaching methods and approaches in the field of digital competences and, consequently, inclusion of learners with special needs, - raise the level of competence of teachers and learners in the areas of inclusion, tolerance, solidarity, interculturalism, - create an innovative intercultural and interactive learning environment, - motivate learners to use innovative approaches in independent learning, - teach learners with special needs the capacity to integrate into the school environment and the wider social environment, - raise the professional development of teachers, - refresh foreign language skills, - learn from each other, - to produce learning-didactic aids tailored to the individual needs of pupils, - produce an e-manual of good teaching practices "Inclusion and the Reading Literacy", - by presenting best practices directly to raise awareness and educate our own and wider environment (workshops, exhibitions, events, round tables and sports events). - become a school in which we will try to avoid obstacles in further developing intercultural education as part of the teacher's teaching and introduction practice at all levels of work and activity at school.
We decided to get immersed in the project because we wanted to improve the pedagogical and didactic competences based on a needs analysis at our school. Further on, we decided to define and acknowledge them in the European Development Plan. They were the following ones: - improving and upgrading reading literacy strategies for both pupils and teachers, and establishing a quality learning process that supports new working methods for learners with special needs and promotes ways of integrating migrants and foreign students into the learning environment; - analytical processing and comparison of experience for use in domestic school and expansion of it to interested Slovenian and foreign schools; - increasing the capacity to engage in international partnerships and designing e-Twinning projects. We wanted to learn about new skills and methods and exchange practices with foreign related organisations, upgrade them and transfer them into the learning environment. With international cooperation, we intended to increase the confidence of employees to participate in projects and to improve teamwork, digital skills, knowledge of foreign languages and to promote intercultural dialogue.