Our Project Summary
The proposed project has been created with the goal of integrating the Hungarian and British National curriculums in such a way that they are seamlessly cohesive. This goal is an integral part of the realization of our bilingual school; it is essential to the style and manner in which we serve our students and parents and also the wider community around us in Budapest.
By realizing our three main objectives; training both native and non-native English speaking staff in a two-fold approach, imbuing our non-native speaking staff with more confidence in their command of the English language through experiencing British and Irish culture and approaches to education, while at the same time taking our native English speaking staff, and a few select high level (non-native) English speaking staff and applying them towards the objective of retraining in methodology and specific course content learning in the classroom, giving the Hungarian staff at our school a better appreciation for the methodology and the application of the British national curriculum, which is implemented by our international staff, allowing them to have the appropriate background knowledge of the ways and means of the other half of the school curriculum, also enabling our advanced Hungarian staff in shepherding the lower level staff in using the methodology and curriculum based implementation in the classroom while the native speaking staff gain the appropriate training to provide support within their classroom and within the overall school structure, we believe that we can acheive this goal, and creating the synergy through drawing together members of both sides of the staff, thereby creating common expectations for the continued exellence of student performance, we will realize this goal.
Our decision to send ten members of our staff reflects the seriousness which we are taking this goal; as it comprises slightly less than one-quarter of our full-staff which allows us the flexibility to train other members of our faculty, covers all departments evenly allowing us to quickly implement our objectives upon return from training, and sufficiently covers our needs in terms of the proposed implementation of the overall goal.
By creating an English and Hungarian language school newsblog, we will encourage our students and staff to contribute in a meaningful and literary sense to our school community, and to the community at large, through the encouragement of writing skills, participation in projects, and creativity. Our online art exhibition will encourage our students to share their work with others, transcend the language barriers, and find others in their community with like-minded artistic skills and desires. The English language culture week will provide our participants with the opportunity to showcase what they have learned while in the UK or Ireland in integrating our English and Hungarian backgrounds, while the school e-twinning will open up new horizons for integrating our own two curriculums, at the same time opening our regional and EU experiences and giving us invaluable partnerships and continued support in our English language improvement.
The results will be evaluated and disseminated to our staff at school through trainings by each of the participants for the other members of staff, by updating our methodology in the international and Hungarian classrooms, by sharing our experiences and expectations of improvement amongst staff and our parent/student community, and including all of the residual and osmotic occurences of good ideas and improving our delivery of material in the classroom.
By signing on for a one year commitment towards the implementation of our goal, we have dedicated ourselves to creating long-term benefits for our community and our school. We will implement the objectives through our stated activities, taking great care in making sure that all the students at our school will be provided with an opportunity to participate and to better themselves, while helping our staff and parents alike to better understand how our bilingual curriculum is the best program for their children in Budapest, because of the dedication to the implementation and integration of a truly modern and successful method of education for their children.
With the support of the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.
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"The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein."