By implementing the project, our school wanted to promote the development of school staff competencies. Innovative teaching and ICT-enhanced learning methods for teachers, with specific strategies for school inclusion, interdisciplinary teaching models, methods, and tools for making diversity a resource. Promoting digital transformation at school by automating internal processes, simplifying routine activities, and improving communication between students, teachers, and parents, allowing educators to focus exclusively on pupils. Administrative staff with English language skills able to support the management of Erasmus+ projects in a European working context, with a solid background in the knowledge of classroom management and school education needs. Finally, the project wanted to support the development of teachers’ competencies, beyond their disciplinary skills, on the management of relation difficulties in their classroom, and how to create positive relational dynamics both in the peer group and between pupils and adults.
The I.C.S. "Maredolce" Institute is a school located in Palermo (Italy), hosting about 1000 pupils between 3 and 14 years old, from pre-primary to lower secondary, 140 teachers, and about 30 employees of administrative personnel. Our school is strongly oriented to fostering activities that support teachers' professional development, the achievement of linguistic and intercultural skills, and promoting sharing of good practices among European school workers. The project concerns school staff training, specific activities for teachers and administrative personnel on the use of new technologies, in relation to different tasks and professionalism, in order to develop new competencies or further enhance the already acquired skills.