The goals we have set are: 1. To improve the key competencies of the 21st century of our teachers in general 2. Innovation to become a daily practice in our school, including through training of the whole teaching staff; 3. Digitization of foreign language training and development of project activities 4. Orientation of the training to the practice - "knowledge and competencies for real life" - implementation of the skill "transfer of knowledge" from theory to practice, teamwork 5. Development of appropriate materials for our students - way of working, assessment documents. 6. Adding a European dimension to our new learning process and improving language learning and use, taking into account the cultural and linguistic diversity of the European Union. Work on different international projects 7. Competences for preparation and participation in projects for increasing the efficiency of the professional, methodological and linguistic competencies of the teachers. Achieving them will allow us to teach our students and educate them so that they can acquire civic values such as tolerance, respect for human rights, responsibilities for the future development of a united Europe.
Taking into account the needs of modern teenagers and their method of learning through digital technologies, we focused on such courses that allow us to learn a given foreign language more easily and acquire communicative abilities / competencies / by using these technologies. We focused on the following priorities set out in our European Development Plan: European citizenship, European self-awareness and democracy; Intercultural education and learning (lifelong learning): Digitization in foreign language teaching. The activities of the European Development Plan of 17 th School "D. Gruev" are due to its peculiarities , the needs and orientation of our students, the directive for free movement of people for learning, work, tourism, internationalization and digitalization in education. This plan is in line with European guidelines for the development of the education system, mobility - movement of citizens for learning and work, continuous training through lifelong learning in planning personal life and career - active citizenship. Tolerance, respect for human rights , responsibilities for the future development of Europe as a competitive learner and working in a unified socio-economic environment