Lithuania: Kedainiu rajono Krakiu Mikalojaus Katkaus gimnazija


Our gymnasium provides education for students aged 5-19. It also has three devisions of preschoolers, a kindergarten and primary school which belong to our gymnasium. It is located in the countryside in the middle of Lithuania. Our village Krakes has a population of about 1000 and is surrounded by 8 smaller villages. We have 406 students and 48 teachers. As we live in a rural area one of the biggest problems for families is unemployment. Many parents are unemployed or have small income from their own little farmlands. Even 168 students are from families which are at a risk of social exclusion. We face the problem of children living in a one-parent family. Due to difficult economical conditions many people choose to work abroad or even emigrate. This leads to a problem that children are often left to live with one parent or sometimes with more distant relatives. As a result pupils have issues with their psychological development and poor academic results. Children of different abilities and needs are taught in our school. We have very prominent students who do very well in contests and exams. Our gymnasium has a team of specialists (a psychologist, social pedagogues, special pedagogue and a speech therapist). So, our school does everything to give necessary professional help to integrate pupils into our community. Also, we try to involve students into various extra-curricular clubs such as drama, dancing, sports and others. We believe this way we help them to build up confidence and self-esteem. Being involved in this project we want to show them that there are lots of interesting ways to become active school community members. Students will acquire the basic skills and competencies needed for their personal development, such as working in a team, leadership, communication, English and other languages and ICT. Teachers also have great expectations for this project. Sharing teaching practices with teachers from partner countries will ensure the development and the use of up-to-date methods, it will give the opportunity of implying the knowledge gained during the lessons in practice. Most teachers in our gymnasium speak only Russian as their foreign language and the participation in this partnership will induce learning English as well. So, teachers will have an opportunity to work on their foreign language and IT skills at the most to keep themselves with their students. We have a team of teachers, administration and students who work together for the successful implementation of the Project. If to name the key persons involved, we would choose four pedagogues: teacher of science and mathematics, who is also a class teacher of 15-year-olds. Teacher of science teacher of English and a class teacher of 14-year-olds. Teacher of IT All the key people mentioned have great team working skills as well as experience in implementing national and international projects.


PROJECTNUMBER 2018-1-TR01-KA229-059973_2

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