Comprehensive school William Gladstone - Sofia

18 comprehensive school "William Gladstone" is created in 1906. Since 1930 the school follows the traditions in the teaching of European languages: English, French and German. In 1992 we began to teach Japanese, Chinese, Arabic and Korean language since 2011. Today it is a municipal school specializing in intensive learning of modern languages, as well as humanitarian sciences, mathematics and natural sciences. The school has 2409 students, divided into 91 classes in Primary School, Lower Secondary School and Upper Secondary school level, with 185 teachers. 18 comprehensive school provides intensive language learning of English, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Arabic as first foreign language, and Spanish and Russian as second one in all levels of education – from primary to upper secondary. We are implementing CLIL methodology in English, in French, in German, in Chinese, Japanese and in Arab for the respective foreign language classes. We are open to partnerships of Erasmus + because we have a lot of experience in the previous LLP, and several learning mobility of teachers and students in Europe, China, Japan and South Korea. Having the purpose of student’s and teacher’s participation in European projects the school management tries to stimulate students and staff to broaden their perspectives and views on the world. For the last decade 18 comprehensive school "William Gladstone" has been involved in many international projects and national policies and initiatives, related to Innovative methods, Inclusive education, Human rights, democratic citizenship, digitalization, space design. Our school has been involved in projects of the Council of Europe, European Parliament - EUROSCOLA and Ambassador School Program. We would like to share our experience so far and try to implement new models and working methods concerning matters of common interest and to improve the educational process in general. Quality in education is an important topic. Quality Education is at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals and is quint-essential pre-requisite for broader context of development. Quality standards must be applied to both the public and private sector education, and be backed by a comprehensive regulatory regime. Since 2016 our school implements a New National Legislation on quality standards and a management system focused on monitoring and evaluation of the quality content and levels of achievement.

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