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On the project
In the mid 2010 Mitrovacka gimnazija was elected by the Ministry of Education and British Council to be one of ten Serbian grammar schools which would take part in the internatonal project ‘Connecting Classrooms’.
Connecting Classrooms is a global programme that creates partnerships between clusters of schools in the UK and others around the world. These partnerships bring an international dimension to young people’s learning, to improve their knowledge and understanding of other cultures and prepare them for life and work as global citizens. Connecting Classrooms partnerships are supported by local authorities/federations of schools (or in some cases, other affiliated bodies) in the UK and district education offices/ministries of education in other countries.* This endorsement, in all countries, provides a platform from which broader, strategic links can be formed between areas or districts in the partner countries.
This program involves I and II second grade students, who will improve their I.T. knowledge, communication and language skills and learn more from their peers by using various creative ways.
Professionally, this program is very useful for the teachers as well. It enables them to learn more of the way lessons are organized and educational policy is conducted in other schools by exchanging ideas with their colleagues both in Serbia and abroad and by comparing their practice with the practice and standards of others.
In order to communicate more easily, countries are divided into groups. Our country is in the group with the UK, Germany and Slovakia. Project participants communicate on the site twinspaces, which is made to this purpose solely.
Since the beginning of 2010/2011 students and teachers have started a number of activities with an aim of establishing lasting contacts. One of the first steps was to exchange New Year cards, afrter which a four-day seminar in Zrenjanin ensued. Acquired knowledge, students delivered to their peers in five consequtive workshops.
The Young leaders (students involved in the project) also visited the school for special needs ’Radivoj Popović’ in Sremska Mitrovica to get to know a different way of growing up and destroyed various prejudice and stereotypes.
Our direct partenrs are: German school Luther-Melanchton-Gymnasium Schillerstraße and Private Secondary Grammar School from Bratislava, whith which communication has been initiated.
The students of Mitrovacka gimnazija hope they will get the opportunity to meet their German and Slovak peers in person by offering them hospitality in their lovely little town.