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August Treboniu Laurian National College
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Boasting a tradition of 160 years, A.T. Laurian National College is a distinct presence among the other educational institutions in Botosani. In today’s context, dominated by fast-paced changes in every field, our college aims at offering students a complete and complex education meant to develop creative and adaptable personalities, following the spirit of both national and European values. At the end of 2012, the activity of the school was labelled as excellent by the National Agency of Quality in Education. Moreover, in 2010 and 2017 the school received the title of European School. In July 2017, the Oxford Academic Union, consisting of 240 members – university managers, professors, PHDs and scientists from 30 countries – presented Laurian National College with its highest award, the European Quality Award, during the conference “Excellence in Quality” organized in Lucerne, Switzerland. The nomination was obtained after an evaluation of the educational standards of the school, precisely for the quality of the management, for the impeccable image in the region in terms of education and science and for providing high-quality educational services. The school has also been awarded the title of European School in the last 10 years for the numerous projects, international, national, regional or local, with results at all these levels and upholding European values.
Our school aims at developing secondary-school graduates who are able to decide upon their own career, to contribute to designing their own intellectual and professional routes, to become actively involved in the social and economic life of the region. The school offers to the community secondary school graduates who are very well trained in the subjects they have studied. More than 70% of these students further their education at universities from both Romania and abroad.
In the academic year 2019-2020 there are 70 teachers in the A.T. Laurian National College, of which 5 are PHDs and 52 hold the first degree in teaching (the highest in the Romanian teaching professional development). There are 1021 students of lower and upper secondary school. The school is a comprehensive theoretical one, and has both humanities and science classes. In this academic year there are 6 lower secondary school classes, from 5th to 8th, 20 upper secondary school classes teaching sciences and 12 upper secondary school classes focusing on teaching social sciences and foreign languages. The school buildings contain 42 classrooms, 1 STEM laboratory, 13 teachers’ offices, 12 laboratories, three gyms, one sportsground, a school center of research and information, two teachers’ rooms, a festivity hall and an amphitheater.
The A.T. Laurian National College is a licensed center of ECDL preparation and testing as well as an authorized Cambridge assessment center. The English and French teachers of the school cooperate with the British Council, the French Embassy, the French Cultural Institute in Iasi and are certified trainers and examiners. The students in the French bilingual classes sit the bilingual French baccalaureate and most of those in the English bilingual classes, as well as those studying English intensively obtain the international Cambridge certificates in English. The college has an impressive tradition of bilingual and intensive teaching of foreign languages such as English and French.
In the past years the school has been involved in a number of national and international projects. Among these should be mentioned the bilateral Comenius project entitled “Implementing European Activism through Careers and Plurilingualism”, the multilateral Comenius project “Play Our Anthems, Share Our Traditions”, the Pestalozzi Program “Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights”, the multilateral Comenius project entitled “European Literacy and Citizenship Education”, the SNAC program, the Grundvig project entitled “Europe et partage”, the Erasmus+ Key Action 101 project “A Collaborative European Inquiry into Technologically Enhanced Mathematical Pedagogy”, the Erasmus+ Key Action 102 “Acquisition of Professional Web Programming Skills for an Earlier Integration in the Labor Market”.
Alongside the solid theoretical and professional training the school offers, it also aims at developing the moral and social sides of the students’ personalities with a view to helping them to become prospective European citizens who are active and efficient. In the school is active the “2010 Europe” Association, a non-profit and non-governmental organization which offers non-formal education during holidays through the multitude of projects it manages and through the varied themes it upholds. In the past four years, the A.T. Laurian National College in partnership with “2010 Europe” Association and the Botosani County Council has managed local projects during the summer holidays. Through these, hundreds of students from Botosani county have participated in summer schools focusing on themes which are complementary to the contents taught during the academic year: the traditional household, urban culture, ecology, multiculturalism and plurilingualism.
From the point of view of equipment, fewer than 25% of the classrooms have video projectors and an Internet connection. Since January 2014 the school has had access to the Adservio web platform, alongside other 91 schools in Romania. The IT services offered by this platform include the on-line attendance register, email communication for parents, teachers and students, internal sharing of educational resources or national sharing of these, with the other schools connected.
The turnover of teachers is stable and the staff are well trained professionally. The teachers are very knowledgeable of the scientific concepts of the subjects that they teach. Thus, a large number of Laurian teachers teach in the Student Centers of Excellent Performance and Laurian students obtain numerous prizes in the regional, national and international contests and Olympiads. Moreover, the national and international programs in which our school is involved are finalized with certificates and diplomas recognized in Europe: ECDL, CISCO, Cambridge, the French baccalaureate. In the years prior to graduation the teachers devise intensive preparation programs for the students, which help them to pass not only the national evaluation examinations at the end of 8th and 12th grades, but also to have easier access to various colleges and universities.
Since September 2013 up to the present, 38 teachers of the school have participated in bilateral and multilateral Comenius projects, in the Erasmus+ Key Action 201 strategic partnership project and the Erasmus+ Key Action 102 project of professional development for the students in mathematics-computer science classes. Through these projects the participants have developed their organizational, professional and intercultural collaborative skills with the foreign partners, have gained experience of disseminating the results and valuing them have gained experience of financial management of project funds.
Within the Erasmus+ strategic partnership project organized in Laurian between 2015-2017, the teachers of the school shared with their colleagues from Sweden and the UK examples of good practice and became familiar with the latest research on using technological tools in the partner schools. The mathematics teachers in Laurian implemented didactic strategies of teaching-learning-assessing on the most innovative e-learning platforms, they created digital lessons and a platform of learning-assessing mathematics. Among the results we would like to mention the digital lessons package entitled “The Congruence of Triangles”, a software which received the first prize in 2016 in the National Edumanager Gala, and the web platform http://mate.laurian.ro, addressed to lower secondary school students, which was awarded an honorable mention in the national stage of the “Made for Europe” contest.
In the last six years our school has hosted seven transnational project meetings, presentations and debates involving partners from Turkey, Poland, Bulgaria, the UK, Sweden, Italy, Greece, as well as representatives of national agencies from various European countries.
Europe Day is an event celebrated annually by the teachers and students of our school through a variety of activities. In the last four years we have obtained awards both regionally and nationally based on our results of the European projects.
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