Social skills are an important key to success in life. Through this project, we wolud like to contribute skills on to be a liked one, popular, finding friends, getting along well with people, participating in many activities because they are sociable, being self-confident, joining peer groups, controling aggressive behavior, being cooperative, using communication skills, getting able to listen effectively, being successful in making social decisions, having strong human relations, coping with stressful situations calmly, showing their anger appropriately without harming other people, successful in empathizing, adapting to their environment, being able to stay away from conflicts, managing social problems effectively. In this way, we targeted to have activities and policies aimed at increasing the level of education quality in our school, and to learn and see good examples abroad in this direction. Thus, we aimed to ensure that the professional competencies of the personnel of the institution are developed.
Since it is one of the biggest schools in our city, our schools serves a high number of teachers and students. It is a part of teachers' job, together with their families, to acquire the social life skills (SLS) which will prepare students for life. In order to gain these skills, the results of the needs analysis revealed the necessity of carrying out this project when we determined how competent our staff are in acquiring social life skills, what attitudes they have towards SLS, and how well they are aware of the examples abroad.