we wanted teachers to use innovative methods in their lessons; to improve students' learning results and motivation.
In 2014 Kaunas r. Neveronys Secondary School became gymnasium and confronted with challenges: higher parental expectations of students’ achievements, increased wishes of a high school community to reduce students' early withdrawal from the educational process, the ability to create an innovative gymnasium. The data of the self-evaluation of the quality of school activity showed, that some students described lessons as traditional, uninteresting and outdated. It was carried out external audit in 2018. It was announced that more than half of teachers used traditional teaching methods in their lessons and only 23 percent of lessons were innovative. It was extremely important for teachers to improve themselves, developing new educational methods responsive to students' learning needs, observe lessons and share experience among foreighn teachers, find out more about innovative methods abroad.