Project of the General Secondary School “Bernardin Frankopan”
Learning School
Specific project’s objectives:
- To strengthen teachers’ competencies in teaching pupils with learning disabilities/with special needs, gifted/talented pupils and those speaking Croatian as a foreign/second language; to develop learning skills of pupils;
- To identify different learning styles and cognitive abilities of pupils with learning disabilities and those with special needs
- To train teachers and associate experts to work efficiently with pupils with learning disabilities/ with special needs /gifted pupils/pupils speaking Croatian as a foreign/second language
- To develop learning methods suitable for pupils with specific learning disabilities/with special needs, for gifted pupils and pupils speaking Croatian as a foreign/second language
- To establish constructive communication with parents on the issue of inclusive practices and policies
- To raise awareness of the local community about the needs and benefits of inclusive education
- To set up the School Inclusive Policy
Project’s main activities:
Identifying dominant learning styles and cognitive abilities of pupils with special needs;
- Workshop for 1st grade: Learning Styles;
- Teacher Training Workshop: How to recognize different learning styles of pupils;
- Assessment of global intellectual functioning of pupils and subsequent student counselling;
- Parents and teachers counselling.
Trainings of teachers and associate experts on teaching tehniques:
- for gifted pupils, pupils with language-based learning, speaking disabilities and communication disorders; working with pupils exhibiting attention disorders and lack of concentration problems and teaching or learning techniques for pupils for whom Croatian is a foreign/second language;
Teacher training workshops on:
- Implementation of newest vocabulary
- Teaching/learning techniques for pupils with learning disabilities;
- Examination of Anxiety;
- Classroom Implementation of Mathematical Software;
- Teaching methods development based on visual teaching devices;
- Lecture for teachers: Presentation Skills
Workshops on learning methods, for pupils with specific learning disabilities
- Learning of foreign language vocabulary (English/German)
- Examination of Anxiety;
- Drawings as Learning Tools- workshop for pupils with visual learning style, implementation and use of visual learning devices;
- Workshops for pupils with lower levels of global intellectual functioning;
- Presentation Skills
- Presentations of visual learning style, workshop for pupils with lower levels of global intellectual functioning;
- Organising intra-curricular and extracurricular activities.
Developing learning methods for gifted pupils
- Student workshop The Use of Mathematical Software;
- Biology, Physics and Chemistry-based research project;
- Psychology-based research Measuring Tolerance of the pupils of the Highschool Bernardin Frankopan towards Minority Groups
Training/roundtables with parents
- Presentation of the project scope and objectives to parents;
- Counselling parents of children with learning disabilities
- Lecture: Parental role in education of a secondary school student
- Workshop Influence of different parental styles upon child’s school achievement;
- Project result dissemination activities for parents
Raising awareness on inclusive education in local community:
- Inclusive education conference;
- Media presentation of the Project activities and results
- Pupils and parents will fullfill a questionnaire on inclusive school atmosphere, at the beggining and the end of the project, with the subsequent statistical data processing;
- Drafting School’s Inclusive Policy
Project’s target groups
- Direct beneficiaries: Pupils with learning disabilities (40), gifted pupils (40), pupils with Croatian as a foreign/second language and their parents (20), teachers, associate experts of the School and four partners of the primary schools (70)
- Indirect beneficiaries: all pupils of the School and their parents (1200), all pupils of the partner primary schools and their parents (1000), local community