Project of the “Vocational Secondary School Jajce”:
I love my school

Specific project’s objectives:

• To improve the quality of work with pupils with special needs in regular classes through teacher training and purchasing needed didactic and teaching material
• To improve interpersonal communication among pupils and pupils and teachers
• To promote vocational programs through improvement of practical training in the school workshop for the first year car mechanics,  technicians for electric power and the first, second and third year locksmiths

Project’s main activities:

• Four  lectures for teachers working with pupils with special needs
  • Teachers will improve knowledge on various difficulties pupils may have in learning and how to adjust and individualize existing curricula.
• Workshops on interpersonal communication:
  • Pupils who come from families in which no member of the family work, often do not have enough self-confidence and withdraw into themselves and other people are excluding them from school and social life. The same thing is with pupils who have difficult situation in the family, or do not succeed in school, become frustrated and do not know how to deal with problems, and incorrectly solve the stress. These pupils often have conflicts with their teachers, the other pupils as well as with their parents. We want to include them into workshops with teachers on the topic „Improvement of interpersonal communication through experiential learning”. We want for them to learn to stand up for themselves and not hurt the others. Workshops will be led by professional trainer (educator and psychologist) and they will be organized for pupils, teachers and parents who show the interest (15 participants per workshop). We hope thereby to improve communication in the teaching process, raise self-esteem, which should result in greater motivation for learning and school attendance.
• Purchasing didactic and teaching materials and professional literature:
  • - for the work of teachers
  • - for pupils to understand better the teaching material
  • - for the school pedagogue who is providing all necessary support to teachers, pupils and parents,
  • - for the work of three pupils who came up with the idea to include pupils with special needs in the section that they lead themselves. They will help them with homework, studying and having a good time together. School will support this kind of work so that other pupils may join and help as well.
• Renovating and equipping the locksmith's workshop
  • Equipping the new school workshop with tools and materials necessary for conducting practical classes in school.
• The student’s production of new tools and objects
  • Pupils will be able to make metal and wired didactic materials, geometric shapes and bodies, as part of practical work in the locksmith's workshop. This will be useful in teaching mathematics and physics, too, while the products could be sold on the market.
• Field trips with pupils as part of the practical work
•  A field trip to Novi Travnik
  • This trip is also planned for pupils where they would visit the factory of metal structures. In that way they will have an opportunity to expand their knowledge and socialize more outside the school.

Project’s target groups:

• Direct beneficiaries:  
  • - 10 pupils who attend classes towards an inclusive model in the following classes: the second class of chefs, third class of cooks, second class of masons and third class of carpenters;
  • - pupils who have practical classes in the school’s locksmith workshop -1st  grade of locksmiths, 1st  grade  of car mechanics and the 1st  grade of power technicians (about 84 pupils);
  • - teacher of practical training and teachers and pupils who will participate in training seminars
• Indirect beneficiaries: the other pupils, teachers in the school, pupils' parents, companies where pupils do their practice