link do omówienia w języku polskim
The seminar with the partcipation of 4 teachers from 3 countries:
Portugal: Escola Secundária Dr. Joaquim Gomes Ferreira Alves z Valadares-Vila Nova de Gaia, in the region of PORTO.
The seminar with the partcipation of 4 teachers from 3 countries:
Portugal: Escola Secundária Dr. Joaquim Gomes Ferreira Alves z Valadares-Vila Nova de Gaia, in the region of PORTO.
Álvaro A. SANTOS, the headmaster
of the school. He led studies to understand and tackle Early School Leaving
(his Master’s Degree Project), and published a scientific article on the
findings. He is the co-author of a book identifying and describing praiseworthy
activities in Portuguese Schools. He was a member of the National Education
Council and has worked in several studies about education matters, including
Portuguese Education priorities.
Agostinha GOMES
is a Portuguese and French teacher. In addition to being a teacher,
trainer and translator, she has had an active participation in civic society,
having been municipal deputy and member of the Commission for the Protection of
Children and Young People.
Escola
Secundária Dr. Joaquim Gomes Ferreira Alves, Valadares, is a Secondary School,
situated in Vila Nova de Gaia municipality, in the Southern suburbs of
Porto. It is attended by 1742 students, aged
between 12 and 18. There are 135 teachers, most of them (83%) having
at least ten years of teaching practice in the school. The school offers a
variety of courses, from general secondary studies, aimed to prepare for higher
education, to vocational/professional courses in partnership with local and
regional economic tissue, aimed to offer suitable training and qualifications
for the job market. The school is situated in a social area where the tradition
of early school leaving (ESL) and low interest in educational attainment, as a
social (and family) established culture, have been the central problems to be
tackled in a sustained and effective way. In fact, from 42% of early school
leavers in 2001, the school has been working hard to reduce those numbers,
which is still one of the main problems within the local community and in our
country. Our national goal is to reduce ESL to less than 10% by 2020. Our most
recent numbers reveal a robust reduction to less than 2% em 2018 at school. The
school also works with SEN students (3,4%), and has a autism unit.
36% of the students benefit from free school meals, due to a considerable tax
of unemployment rate among parents.
The school takes an active part in the local community and in the region,
and students and teachers are committed in various social and academic
projects. Notwithstanding social and economic difficulties, our students often
achieve decent results in various subjects, Science, Maths, History and Foreign
Languages. They are keen on sports and performing arts.
The school works hard to maintain a healthy and collaborative social
environment among students, staff, parents, and stakeholders. Among other
projects, there is a scheme, involving 180 students, for older students who
volunteer to help their younger schoolmates to achieve a better learning.
Another group of senior students are involved in a project to manage and solve
conflicts among their younger colleagues, as a result of a two year European
Project. Continuous improvement and integration are the key to match
the diversity and promote equal opportunities for all students. The school work
is continuously evaluated through its Quality Observatory (an all-school
evaluation project).
Lithuania: Kėdainiai Juozas Paukštelis Basic School in KEDAINIAI
Ramune Mikstiene writes about herself tak pisze o sobie i swojej szkole: We are from Lithuania.
Our school is a pro gymnasium and we teach kids from 7 up to 15 years old. We
have around 500 kids and they like our school a lot. The school is situated on
a hill and the beautiful view of our town can be seen through the windows.
Kėdainiai Juozas Paukštelis Basic School - full-time, self-study general education school in Kėdainiai, which provides primary and basic education programs in the Lithuanian language. The school employs 45 teachers. In 1946 Secondary school No. 1 in Kedainiai was established.
In 1981 Kedainiai Secondary School
No. 1 is named after the writer Juozas Paukstelis. In 2015 the school became Juozas Paukstelis
progymnasium in Kedainiai. In 2018 October 1 the school became an all-day
school.
The mission of our school is to develop, through close collaboration between teachers,
parents, students and society, a decent, educated, creative, socially active
and responsible personality, ready to live in a rapidly changing and
modernizing society.
Priority of our school is given to academic activity, continuous learning, collaborative, creating a modern, cozy and cafe learning environment. Seeking to educate a responsible learner.
Our school joined the project of being day center school a few years ago and we have two groups of kids age 7 -11 that stay there after school.
All
students learn English as a second language since the second year at school,
besides they can choose German or Russian as the third language.
My
name is Ramune Mikstiene and I am an English teacher in our school.
Spain, ICFA Josepa Massanés, 43002 Tarragona
Yolanda CABRÉ SANS, English language teacher.
She was a special guest at the conference organized by the Office of the European Parliament in Warsaw and WCIES. Let’s remind her visit in Warsaw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsUFP6TD4h0
Her school was a host school for methological advisers from WCIES:
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