D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics successfully and on time completed EMstep project activity 2.2

D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics (TAE) successfully completed activity 2.2. ‘Developing toolkit for classroom observation: (i) Checklist, (ii) Classroom diagramming, (iii) Selected verbatim notes, (iv) Open narrative, (v) Audio-visual tape‘ included in work package No. 2 ‘Tools for Inclusive Education and Digital Learning‘ within the project 2023-2-TR01-KA220-SCH-000170568 ‘Empowering Middle School Teachers for Social Inclusion through Observation-based Professional Development‘.
According to the tasks allocated between the partners, the Academy had to develop models of two forms to be used during teacher observations:
- Classroom diagramming: Behavior and engagement patterns;
- Selected verbatim notes: Questions asked by teachers based on goal setting and planning.

TAE’s team worked together with three schools from Svishtov and their leadership teams (every leadership team consists of the school principal and a teacher) built for the purposes of the project as follows:
- Mr. Genady Ivanov and Ms. Galya Ivanova for ‘Nikolay Katranov’ Secondary School;
- Ms. Mariana Markova and Ms. Diana Georgieva for ‘Tsvetan Radoslavov’ Secondary School;
- Ms. Tsvetanka Kirova and Ms. Zhana Kostyakova-Georgieva for ‘Dimitar Blagoev’ Secondary School.
The drafts of the two forms were discussed at a team meeting held on 27.11.2024. The leadership teams of the three schools approved the final versions of ‘Classroom diagramming: Behavior and engagement patterns’ and ‘Selected verbatim notes: Questions asked by teachers based on goal setting and planning’, and they were uploaded to the project's Google drive.

On 14.11.2024, an online work meeting was held between the project partners. The Oslo Metropolitan University (Norway) team took part in a project meeting for the very first time. Each organization reported on the level of progress achieved, and guidelines for implementation of activity 2.2 and the upcoming activities according to the project schedule were discussed. The work on activity 2.3. ‘Creating a digital learning platform‘ starts at the beginning of December. D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics together with the project partner from Norway have to develop a ‘Leadership Module‘ by the end of February 2025.