Project of the Primary School “Tringë Smajli”:
Together for an inclusive school

Specific project’s objectives:

• To increase involvement of children with special needs in school;
• To increase parents’ active involvement in school life;
• To draft internal school policies in regard to parents’ involvement and support provided to children with special needs;
• To improve teacher’s professional development.

Project’s main activities:

Awareness campaign:

• Organising workshop in order to present the project “Together for an Inclusive School”, its activities and basic elements of inclusive education to:
  - teachers,
  - parents,
  - pupils,
  - community members,
  - representatives from District Education Directory and NGO’s.

Creating a positive climate in the school through:

• Training teachers on:
  • - Communication as a  key of success for relationships between teachers, parents and pupils
  • - Management of aggressive attitude and children’s conflicts
• Training parents on:
  • - Communication as a key of success for relationships between parents, teachers and children

Raising the capacity  of the school staff

• Three trainings for teachers:
  • - The process of identification and intervention with children with special needs in learning;
    - Children’s motivation through the process of  getting to know their own individuality and encouragement of  self-esteem;
    - Main elements of a Summer School-an education oasis during summer holidays

Peer Learning: Sharing experiences with “Ali Podrimja” school in Bajram Curri

• Learning from positive experience of the “Ali Podrimja”school in regard of individual/ group support to pupils with special needs and other pupils.

• Teachers, pupils and parents will meet to share new ideasand discuss improvements for action plans

Raising awareness of children’s right and the importance of their involvement:

• International day of children’s right, November 20th;

• Exhibition  of children with special needs

Creating friendly and welcoming environment at school

• Infrastructure improvements of the school, such as:

  - placing  a school ramp at the school entrance;
  - painting the outdoor school façade;
  - decorating the school's enterier;
  - Children’s week We are all equal, on June 1

All including activities:

• Organising sport activities for children with special needs; children’s work exhibition, concert with songs, dances, poems, etc.

Project’s target groups:

• Direct beneficiaries: 100 children with special need and the rest of school pupils (430); 28 teachers and parents.
• Indirect beneficiaries: school, community and Education Department.