PhDr. Jiřina Malastová

1. PhDr. Jiřina Malastová Základní škola praktická Klášterec nad Ohří Czech Republic

2. Klášterec nad Ohří The map oftheCzechRepublic the capital (Prague) and my hometown (Klášterec nad Ohří) are marked

3. TOWN Klášterec nad Ohří About 16 000 inhabitants, near the borders with Germany and near spa city Karlovy Vary. Our town is not only famous for its porcelain, but also for the Evženie Spa, called after local spring with curative mineral water 7 schools: 3 + 1 basic schools, 2 secondary schools – grammar school, school for social and administration work, 1 art school (afterschool activities) castle with a museum of china (porcelain) park with many special trees – cork oaks, ginkgo trees

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5. OUR SCHOOL Pupils: about 100 with intellectual disability, physical impairment, one student is deaf (sign language), development of our pupils is very slow, some pupils master only self-help skills with other person's help Education programmes: • for children with mild level of intellectual disability • for children with severe level of intellectual disability • for children with hearing impairment • School Education Programme – new type, put into practice in 6 classes so far

6. OUR SCHOOL All pupils have behaviour problems. Quite often, the parents of these students were pupils and students in our school. About 90 % of our pupils‘ parents receive social benefits regularly and are unemployed. We cooperate with social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, the police, Pedagogical and psychological counselling centres, Special education centres etc. About 10 % of our pupils have individual educational plans. Our goals: • to prepare all our pupils for practical life in a society, for everyday real life. • to motivate the pupils for further education – very difficult, because they don't want to • help them not to be dependent only on social benefits • to improve the quality of their lives

7. OUR SCHOOL Staff: : 24 – educators 20 , 1 clerk , 2 cleaners , 1 caretaker Teachers: • 22 hours a week of direct teaching duty + administration, meetings • 10 special educators + the headmaster and her deputy • 5 pedagogical assistants – one specializes on helping pupils with their social problems (Romanies, incomplete families, unemployed parents (20 years) Parents with a child with special education needs have two possibilities – 1) to integrate their child into mainstream school or 2) to let him or her attend chosen „special“ school. Compulsory school attendance lasts 9 years, some education programmes are for 10 years (pupils with hearing impairment, children with severe level of intellectual disability)

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10. PhDr. Jiřina Malastováe-mail: jirina.malastova@seznam.cz www.zs-prakticka.cz I would like to invite you all to our school and to the Czech Republic in May 2011 (2nd – 6th May, 2011). The study visit called „Inclusion is not an illusion“ is going to take place there. Thank you for your attention