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