Based on the school development priorities for 2018-2022 and the regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers on the state basic education standards and basic education programs (Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 747) (https://likumi.lv/ta/id/303768), our school needed to achieve the following objectives: - introduction of competence based approach in curriculum and acquisition of innovative methodology; - increasing the efficiency of lessons; - development of methodological materials with a special focus on self-directed learning and using research and project methods; - further development of a new, integrated model of teacher cooperation; - planning and conducting teacher's professional development through effective forms of teacher training; - raising foreign language competence; - sharing of good practice and integration examples in school; - promoting internationalization of the school and development of the European dimension, involving pupils and teachers in international projects, working with partners from other European educational establishments to get to know and be aware of pupils' opportunities to study and train in Europe; - expansion and modernization of the database of methodological materials.
Before the implementation of the education reform, Daugavpils 3.vidusskola paid increased attention to areas where improvement and increase in efficiency were needed both in the work of teachers and in the student's educational process. By introducing competence approach to curriculum, the main goals of our school are to overcome the threshold of teachers' individual quality awareness, to learn to plan school work together, to expand the boundaries of one subject area, and thus to increase lesson efficiency. There was a need for support in the development of various forms of teacher cooperation, in the development of new models for the organization of teaching work. An integral part of this process is the improvement of the English language skills of the school teaching staff in order to introduce new teaching methods in working with IT. Promoting internationalization of the school and the development of the European dimension, the involvement of pupils and teachers in international projects, cooperation with partners from other European educational institutions was one of the important priorities. The project application included all the above objectives, which were successfully achieved during the project implementation.