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LEAding the school to improve learning and Respond to its Needs

2020-1-PT01-KA101-0777822020School education staff mobilityfinalizedGood practice
Countries: PT · Grant: €17,978
Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)ICT - new technologies - digital competencesCivic engagement / responsible citizenship

Objectives

In response to the needs identified, training objectives were defined and experimental measures were implemented with the purpose of: (1) improve school results, in subjects with values below the national average; (2) integrate curricular articulation, interdisciplinarity and Education for Citizenship in all courses and subjects; (3) generalise the use of ICT in classroom context, including the assessment of learning; (4) to extend the participation and coordination of European projects to other teachers in the school, to improve communication with partners, to increase the reception of teachers in Job Shadowing and teaching missions; (5) to improve school management processes, the communication between the different structures and the articulation with primary schools, from which the school students come from.

Background

The LEARN project (Leading the School to Improve Learning and Respond to Needs), aimed to meet the priority areas defined in the Educational and European Development projects of the school and respond to the needs identified in the external evaluation, the internal diagnosis carried out by the Quality Observatory and the SELFIE diagnosis: (1) the improvement of school results, in subjects with average results below the national average: Biology and Geology, Economics A, Philosophy and Physics and Chemistry; (2) the integration of curricular articulation and interdisciplinarity, in order to fulfil the essential learning targets that meets the Profile of the students at the Exit of Obligatory Schooling; (3) the generalization of the use of ICT in classroom context, for most subjects, as a support for significant learning activities; (4) the extension of the participation and coordination of European projects to other teachers of the school, the improvement of the communication with partners and the increase of the reception of teachers in Job Shadowing and teaching missions; (5) the improvement of school management processes, the communication between the different structures and the articulation with basic education schools, from where this school students come from. The application was submitted with the aim of mitigating the needs identified through training, observation of good practices, actions to disseminate these learnings and their experimental implementation.

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