D.3

- What are the concrete objectives of the partnership? - Explain what subjects or problems you intend to address. - What approach will you take to achieve your objectives?
 * D.3. PROJECT OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGY **

The project aims for **improving students' skills**, while **mastering the skills of teachers at the European level.** The teachers decided jointly on a Partnerships level in which a concrete skill will be examined. Native language and foreign language teachers, based on their experience and official school examination results, decided to focus on **a reading comprehension skill**. The problem with reading comprehension is also noticed by mathematics teachers. Some children cannot solve a problem because they do not understand the text. **As European teachers we would like to present and compare: how we organize the work, how we test the students, how we analyze document, report on and evaluate the results, and how we involve the parents and other teachers (not only language teachers) to work with students’ reading skills**. During mobilities, on our A DAY TOGETHER IN EUROPE in each school, visiting teachers will practice their teaching strategies and get feedback on how their methods work with children in the host country. We will use our Wiki and other ICT tools to present our lessons, exchange materials, evaluate and get feedback. The final product will be a jointly published book on the most successful methods and a website, which will be presented at the final conference. The main teachers’ concerns are children with weak subject results. Therefore a part of the whole project, a programme BETTER LANGUAGE - BETTER LEARNING,  will deal with these students. We intend to determine groups of students on a few levels depending on the school circumstances. To form our experimental groups we will take under consideration a child’s background and gender. Throughout a specific period of time teachers will work using their and their partners’ teaching strategies. Finally the evaluation procedure will be implemented. In all our schools the national examinations are obligatory. **Apart from final tests carried out jointly by the Comenius group, the improvement of students’ reading comprehension skills identified in the national tests should be the evidence of the achievement of concrete objectives.** In addition, teachers will focus their attention on searching for students’ individual talents. The success, on the international level, in various artistic/ manual fields will help students increase their self-esteem, involve them into school life, enrich their social life and fully prepare to be members of the European Union. 2445drf