This project is an expression of the desire of our teachers to develop in accordance with European trends, to qualify in a more modern and efficient way. Тhe purpose of our project is to qualify pedagogical specialists, to increase their personal motivation for work and lifelong learning, to encourage children to seek and discover knowledge, to stimulate their creative and critical thinking. This will help us to attract and keep a higher percentage of children in the kindergarten; to promote experience and good еuropean practices; to increase the language competences of teachers ; We will achieve the planned goals by attending 4 qualification courses, where we will share an experience and good practices. Each participant will receive a linguistic, professional and cultural preparation in order to participate in the international qualification courses. During the mobility and afterwards we will conduct a wide information campaign (workshops, trainings, round tables, discussions, media, kindergarten site) to promote and disseminate the knowledge, skills and competences acquired during the courses. We guarantee quality implementation, by an internal procedure, we will select eight participants in the mobilities that most closely match the criteria (motivation, proficiency of educational strategies and techniques, interactive methods and information and communication technologies; initiative, communication, proficiency of methods for planning the educational process; teamwork, development and implementation of projects; availability of a professional qualification degree; active participation in seminars, courses for Increasing the qualification, desire for personal and professional development, proficiency in English language) and they will contribute for the maximum of the mastery, promotion and dissemination of the activities. Everyone will increase their language competences at the end of the project, will be more motivated to work, have learned new pedagogical ideas and practices, more confident in working in an international team and satisfied with their daily work. The participation in the courses will enable us to work more actively to develop the key competences of children, to make them active participants in the educational process, by including contemporary teaching approaches into our work. The creation of a diverse and stimulating environment and the implementation of education and training systems for attracting and retaining a higher percentage of children in kindergarten, will help them to adapt to the changes more easily and to be more open to the world. In the long term, the kindergarten will acquire a European image, with improved quality and with increased authority. The experience that we will get from mobilities and will apply it to our daily work will allow us to keep up with the dynamically changing reality, which also responds to the ever-increasing needs of modern parents. This will make the kindergarten an attractive center for every child and family, which will provide high quality education for children, in line with the national and European educational framework. Preventing Еarly childhood leaving activities in the education system will ensure a reduction in the number of unoccupated or leaving children in Silistra. The implementation of new tools for capturing and retaining children in kindergarten and lifelong learning motivation will prevent them from leaving the education system further. This will have a positive effect on the problem of leaving of children and students from the education system, which is a national problem. The project implementation at European level is one of the leading topics in the strategic development of the city and for local authorities. We will pass on the experience of mobility for personal motivation to pedagogical specialists and we will make the teacher profession an attractive choice and career for young people. The realization of this project will give us self-esteem and sureness to develop and participate in other European projects.
We identified our needs by: - Continuing education and qualification of pedagogical specialists to have got innovative strategies, methods and skills for motivating children and teachers; - Expert assistance in learning different teaching strategies in order to prevent early leaving from the education system and promote lifelong learning; - We learned about modern European good practices for promoting cooperation, creativity and communication between all participants in the educational process: kindergarten - child - family - teacher, so that kindergarten becomes a more desirable territory for children; - Introduction and implementation of new ideas for building a diverse and stimulating environment and systems for education and training to attract and retain a greater percentage of children in kindergarten who are more easily adaptable to changes and more open to the world. - Increasing the foreign language competences of pedagogical specialists. Teachers realized the need for purposeful work on attracting and retaining children in the education system and improving the quality, interactivity and relevance of the overall process. Unfortunately, this happens not according to a plan and purposefully, but according to the sense of the teachers. We had appointment with parents to motivate children for lifelong learning. We provided relevant and preferred interest activities for them to keep them in the system. We participated in working meetings on the subject. We realized that we lack an algorithm to solve this problem and we are looking for a way to go about solving it. We need additional qualification and information on how to make kindergarten more attractive for children to come and study willingly. The courses offered by these partners fully meet our continuing education and qualification needs; expert assistance; introduction with modern European practices; introduction and application of new ideas related to our goal - to attract and retain children in kindergarten, and from there in school. Increasing the foreign language competences of pedagogical specialists is also important for discovering foreign experience on the subject. Increasing the motivation of pedagogical specialists by developing new forms of training and using new teaching and learning techniques in kindergarten. The qualification of the team of pedagogical specialists in accordance with the European Qualifications Framework to create more flexible models for training and lifelong learning to encourage children to look for and discover knowledge and stimulate their creative and critical thinking.