Tallinna Läänemere Gümnaasium         www.laanemere.tln.edu.ee

Tallinn Laanemere Gymnasium was opened on the 1st September 1989 in Tallinn, Estonia. Tallinn Laanemere Gymnasium is Russian-speaking school, which since 1999 has been involved in an Estonian Language Immersion Programme. In 2018/2019 1316 (7 - 19 aged) pupils study at Tallinn Laanemere Gymnasium and 383 of the total number of pupils study in Estonian language immersion classes. Our vision: Our school is a unique educational institution that provides a modern learning environment with high quality and competitive education, supported by the personality of the mental and physical development, maintains cultural and linguistic heritage. Our mission: Graduate student can integrate into a multicultural society and maintain own identity, culture and linguistic heritage. A graduate student is active in society and competitive in the labor market, appreciates a healthy lifestyle, uses information technologies. Tallinn Laanemere Gymnasium participates in various educational projects and programmes in Estonia and Europe. In 2018/2019 main programmes are "School calling up to the movement"(main objectives of the programme create additional opportunities for increasing activity of students and teachers), "School Without Violence" (aim is to prevent and reduce violence against and among children), "Look into the future" (objectives are to increase students readiness to make independent decisions, teach adolescents to defend their opinion), Eco-Schools Programme (environmental education). There are great teachers in Tallinn Laanemere Gymnasium, 2 of them are textbook authors, 4 teachers are also advisors. Our teachers successfully conduct educational courses for other Tallinn teachers. All teachers are constantly developing and gaining new knowledge.

Tallinn Laanemere Gymnasium is motivated to participate in this project because there are a lot of benefits of participation. First of all, this project will help broaden the horizons of both children and teachers, develop their personality, cultural awareness and open-mindedness. Certainly, the project will motivate students to learn, gain new experiences, knowledge from different areas, including language, technology, history, literature skills. Through collaborative activities teachers will have great opportunity to get acquainted with the experience of colleagues, to gain new knowledge and skills, to develop, test and implement together new ideas and more effective teaching methods, that will have a positive effect on the opportunities for students and their learning results. There is a motivated team of Tallinn Laanemere Gymnasium management, teachers of foreign languages, history, literature and IT technologies, who will be the key persons in charge of running this project. In case that someone from the team leaves his (her) post in the future, another teacher will take over this role, because we assume that all teachers, students, and their parents will be aware of the project's actions and results.