SLOVAKIA Tvrdošín School Š. Šmálik
School description
Our school participed at E+ projects at theme Soil, that helped us more and structured think at imortance of saving our soil ehere zhe product was book with lessons for all subjects dealing with this theme, we add it to our curriculum. At this time we have E+ K2 as partners at theme WE know better with stories, the goal is to know Europe better with trad. folks and increase students´and public fantasy. Product is book full of stories from all over the world and new stories created by participiants. The second K2 project where we figure as coordinators is on theme Improving Technical Proficiency. Goals are dealing with using usefull apps in edu. to be closer to student and set them motiv. for selfstudying. We finished K1 at theme e-Learning, where we improved our ICT compet. The result of attendance by our teachers is creating of e-Learning platform for subjects mainly addrresed to our students with edu. problems. Before we had project Erasmus plus K1- structured courses for teachers close to handcrafts in eductaion. Right now we use it at Art and we organize free workshops for public. School Š. Šmálik is located in a provincial town Tvrdošín. There are students from the center, the housing estate and the neighboring village. Students mostly come from multiple families where one parent works abroad. There are 21 teachers and 310 pupils. It is situated in a historic building in the city center. It is equipped with 2 computer rooms for ICT, bio-physical classr., lang. classrooms, gym, 12 interactive whiteboards, 30 mini-notebooks and 20 tablets. There is a training kitchen in the school where pupils to the practical cooking. Our school intensely devotes to the 18 disadvantaged students who have learning problems. We have a special teacher who has specified three lessons per a week when she tutors them individually. Our students regularly participate successfully in a variety of competitions, Olympiads.The school is also active in project activities such as eTwinning, Access and projects announced by the Ministry of Education. Our school got a prize of Ministry of Education for example of good practice. Our one teacher works as eTwinning ambassador after her project won first place in Europe and the Ministry of Education determine our school as a training eTwinning in SK. We work with schools and organizations working in the city and county. It is a place where they organize the district rounds of Maths and SK lang.Olympiad. We cooperate very close with the center of the spec. educational counsulting and all teachers are helpful in educating of pupils with educational defects. EN teacher cooperates with Methodical centre in country, she is a member of teacherś group producing EN books for SK Basic schools.
