Our school management and teachers wanted to keep up with the temporary education methods and approaches in order to enhance the quality of our school's education and and the professional competences of our school.Therefore, we had set up School Development Team in order to draw a plan of 5 years for developing the skills of our school staff (both teachers and administrative staff) ,enhance the quality of education and internationalize our school. Due to meetings within the school development team, we had come with the decision that we need to develop the professional competences of our teachers and managing skills in order to enhance the quality in our school and increase the academic success of the students.We decided to internationalize through the project so that we could learn the good practices in education in different EU schools.It was also a good way to build bridges for future cooperations with schools from Europe. We also targetted to be the first lower secondary school (no school has implemented an EU project before) in our town and be the pioneer for other schools.We mentioned the character of ' being the innovative school ' in our school development plan through projects in different fields of school education.
During a School Teachers Council meeting in 2018, the school administrative yearly report showed that in previous 5 years ,our school's academic success decreased by 40-50 %.The results were made up according to the LGS results and school reports of students at the end of the year.This negative portrait forced us to take action in order to recover this situation.Therefore, we have various committees in our school to carry our school in the desired level.One of these school committees was School Development Team. Due to monthly meetings of our SDT ,we have reported the strengths and weaknesses of our school.We have decided to develop the vocational competences of our young dynamic teachers by receiving trainings in our local and in EU level.When we carried out a survey among our teachers , it was found that most of our teachers had not received an in depth training Project Based Learning and they did not have classes about the use ICT in the classroom in the course of their Higher Education Licence Program. We believed that replacing these gaps would contribute our staff and school management in order to enhance the quality of education ,increase the success of the students and become a pioneer school in our town.