The objectives of planned activities within the project were the following: - acquiring knowledge about school systems across Europe (primarily Finland) for a critical insight into the current state of the Slovenian school system and organisation of work at our home institution - acquiring new skills for working with students with special needs (with disabilities as well as talented) and average students (differentiation) - refreshing the methods of working in various subject areas of education from 1st to 9th grade; - internationalization of our school - education and sharing of good practice in the European area, opportunities for new projects; - acquisition of new competencies for meaningful, innovative integration of ICT in teaching
Based on teachers' observations regarding the need for new approaches to working with the student generation of 21st century, at the end of school year 2018/19 we came up with the idea of preparing an international project that could apply the content of fields where we have lot of space for improvements. The following areas of interest were highlighted: - early foreign language teaching (modern working methods), - literacy and reading comprehension (low results on national level), - meaningful and innovative of use of ICT, - work with children with special needs - average students and advantages, - updating curricula, - the education system at home and in other European countries, - rational use of textbooks at clases, - cross-curricular integration. We were looking for modern knowledge, techniques, tools that teachers could use for high quality teaching of new generations.