Teleki Domokos Secondary School

“Teleki Domokos” Secondary School is situated in the centre of the Gornesti village. In the close vicinity of the school is the Teleki Castle - a XVIII-th century building, belonging to the Count’s Teleki Family, which owns it in this moment. The school proves its multicultural character, housing 65% Hungarian native students, 25% Romani and 15 % Romanian. The teaching languages of our school is Hungarian and Romanian. There are 61 teachers who speak both Hungarian and Romanian and have communicational competences at least one foreign language. The 85% of staff has superior studies and most of it is hired for undetermined period. That helps to maintain the continuity of the student-teacher relationship and the permanent interaction with the local community. The school policy promotes tolerance, mutual respect and is interested on offering the best tutoring both in curricular and extracurricular environment for all the participants, encouraging initiative and creativity. The main goal of our school is “The success of the school is the success of the community”. Our teachers are open to learning new ways of working with students, both formal and non-formal in various activities. In school and extracurricular teachers apply different methods to combat school failure, to reduces early school leaving, to improve the intrapersonal and interpersonal communicational skills. Some school students belonging to national minorities live in rural areas . Some notable actions for our organization are: the implementation of the erasmus + K1 project "For us by ourselves", the eTwinning school title, the implementation of the "School after School" program for primary for school pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, second chance for enrolling school-aged people, participating in eTwinning international projects, and getting sponsorships and partnerships from associations and companies to support quality education through interactive activities in rural areas. We are pleased to be partners in projects that support rural education and bring novelties to the teaching act, but also support the social development of students and their social integration into the community