By realizing the project, we wanted to achieve the following aims: 1. To improve teachers and professional associates` competences in the field of planning and implementing individual educational plans for the students needing additional educational support. For teachers to acquire adequate knowledge and skills for realizing classes with students needing additional educational support and therefore to be capable to recognize cognitive and emotional needs of these students and to create accordingly an adequate lesson plan as well as the evaluation of students` achievements. 2. To build the network of exchanging knowledge and competences in inclusive education area inside our school which will remain sustainable in the long term. In the first place through internal professional training performed by the teachers who attended the training in Portugal. 3. For students needing additional educational support to stay at school until the end of their education and to improve their school achievements and to increase the regularity of class attendance.
Our school is a vocational one educating profiles in many different areas. As such, there are a large number of students attending classes according to an individual educational plan. However, the teachers of our school as well as the professional associates are not sufficiently educated for work with students needing additional support. We are missing knowledge and skills, as in writing and implementation of individual educational plans, so in methodical work with such students. For this reason the teachers are not motivated to work in classes where are students needing additional educational support. We are also missing knowledge and skills for work with the families of these students. Due to this we considered the examples of good practice in Portugal would help us, the country which is in the EU and has many years of experience in implementing inclusion in its educational system.