Project of the “General Secondary School Centre Hadžići”:
I'm part of a whole, too

Specific project's objectives:

• To increase school staff capacity in working and supporting pupils with learning and developmental disabilities in everyday school activities
• To reduce prejudices and improve inclusiveness of school culture through education of parents 
• To improve teaching and learning practices by increasing school library fund
• To promote peer education and inclusion of pupils
• To remove architectural barriers

Project’s main activities:

Capacity building of school staff working with children with disabilities:

• Four trainings for three groups of teaching staff;
  • - Training for research assistants;
  • - Training for support staff;
  • - Training for parents;
  • - Individual programmes of providing support for pupils with disabilities;

Through this activity  the following topics will be covered:

• - Inclusion, principles and legislature, attitudes, prejudices and stereotypes;
• - Identification of pupils with learning and developmental disabilities, understanding certain special needs, evaluation and identification process, characteristics and evaluation of pupils` functional level;
• - Teaching pupils with learning disabilities and participation in inclusive class – types and aspects of support;
• - Providing support by improving learning skills, assistive technology, role of the teacher, augmentative and alternative communication, adapting individualized curriculum;
• - Assessment;
• - Managing a class with pupils with learning and developmental disabilities, cooperation with parents;
• - Improving the Index for Inclusion – where the Index is taken as means of support for inclusive development, which relies on knowledge and experience school staff possesses and incites further school development

 Peer education

• Creative workshops
  • - Imagine-create;
• Exhibition
  • - I`m part of a whole, too

These activities will include:

• - visual and media arts (film footage and photography),
• - visual art workshops on applied arts (ornaments, embroidery, objects for daily use made of various materials);

Activities for more friendly and welcoming school environment

• Removing architectural barriers
  • - Installation of elevator electronics will enable access for disabled persons to all school premises
• Equipping school library
  • - Supply of professional literature in order to prepare implementation of inclusion through adapted curriculum, Appropriate literature will support preparation and development of individual educational plans

Project’s target groups

• Direct beneficiaries: 30 pupils with special needs, pupils who are members of school art clubs/sections, 70 teachers, school support staff, school expert associates and at least 100 parents
• Indirect beneficiaries: other school pupils (800) and parents, primary school pupils, other community members,  Employment Service