Showcase Schools Template (school name, website and postal
address here) The National College of Computer Science
http://cni.nt.edu.ro 12, Mihai Viteazul Street, Piatra Neamt,
Romania, 610226
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SCHOOL SNAPSHOT Type of school (private- government- charter-
other) government Email and phone (inc area code) [email protected]
+40233227510 Size of school (student population) 920 Level of
schooling (primary, secondary) secondary Location (metropolitan,
suburban, regional or rural/remote) metropolitan Number of
classrooms 32 Total number of teachers 64 Total number of all full
time equivalent staff (including administrative, support) 94
Microsoft Expert Educator (include name- year level taught- area of
expertise) Florentina Ungureanu, 2014, Computer Science Gabriela
Blaga, 2014, Computer Science Alina Sauciuc, 2013, Biology
Microsoft Student Ambassador details (name, grade) -
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SCHOOL SNAPSHOT Daniela Neamu principal Vasile Diaconu
principals deputy Gabriela Blaga coordinator of the computer
science comission (from right to left)
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SCHOOL SNAPSHOT
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PRINCIPAL SNAPSHOT 1.Daniela NEAMU,
[email protected],
[email protected] 2.I graduated from The
Philosophy Faculty in 1992, when the Romanian society was
undergoing significant changes. From the beginning I came in this
new computer science school as a teacher. I developed myself with
this school and I achieved Ph. D. in philosophy in 2003 and I
became the schools principal in the same year. 3.One of the best
years was 2004 when we managed to work together so as to become a
National College (from Highschool), to start an important national
interdisciplinary contest (for mathematics, computer science,
physics). In the same year we succeeded in putting the basis of the
Infomat Foundation which helps us finance the colleges projects. 4.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man
of value! (Albert Einstein). 5.Our school and Microsoft share the
same vision for education: we imagine ourselves as part of an
educational virtual community, where people want to study by
joyfully using the digital technology of the future.
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SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT SNAPSHOT Our college is modern, alive, with
open-minded people, in an ongoing transformation and adaptation to
the latest challenges and developments of our society. As a result
of this, our students have had significant improvement in
examinations and their use of technology, having better chances to
integrate on the job market. In educating our students we do not
focus only on their formal education but also on developing their
leadership skills, creativity, making them open-minded. According
to our motto, we intend to have valuable graduates, not only
successful ones. Our school provides all the material and human
resources in order to support all the students initiatives
(expressed inside the School Clubs and the Students Council). For
example, on the occasion of this years Colleges Days, the members
of the Students Council have an open session event for their fellow
students from other schools and their guests (former graduates and
inspiring people from our county).
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LEADERSHIP & CULTURE OF INNOVATION We imagine that we will
manage to change the learning process into a new experience which
will allow the community made of students and teachers to get
integrated in the knowledge society. We imagine that we cross the
borders of the classroom and the traditional learning methods by
changing the classic educational process into an inspiring,
interactive and relevant one belonging to the modern world. We
imagine ourselves as part of a virtual learning community where
people want to learn using the digital technology of the future.
The schools improvement is the result of managing to build a team
of great open- minded professional teachers and brilliant,
motivated students to work together. Our success is also explained
by the fact that we are part of the digital era, because of the
specific of our school and of the new technologies we have
purchased from different financial resources. We are successful
because we have developed among our teachers and students the
leadership culture, in order to share common ideals and values.
Last, but not least we are involved in numerous international
projects which help us exchange information, professional
experience and culture.
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TEACHING, LEARNING & ASSESSMENT Digital textbooks,
instruction videos and applications that bring theoretical notions
closer to practice have transformed the National College of
Computer Science in Piatra Neamt into a school that goes further
and further away from the traditional teaching methods and heads
towards the technologies that can offer children the joy of
participating in interactive lessons and a better chance on the job
market. We want to develop, with the support of technology, a type
of education in which the students should be not only the objects
of the educational process, but its subjects who are capable of
having ideas that are worth promoting and we want to be able to
offer them the necessary equipment for accomplishing their
projects. Tablets have been recently introduced in the learning
process and are used by 5-th to 12-th grade students. Whether we
are talking about lessons of Romanian language and literature,
mathematics, economy and even philosophy, music or drawing, tablets
have found a place in the classrooms of our high school and have
changed the way teachers interact with students. Technology helps
us make students with particular abilities reach their full
potential, by organizing the physical learning environments so as
to encourage collaboration, creativity, and learning. At the same
time, by using Project Based Learning our students work in groups
to solve problems, make decisions, go on knowledge quests.
Technology and programs support collaboration among students and
their peer groups in other schools. For example, our students
created an audio book that can be used by students with hearing
impairment.
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CAPACITY BUILDING The College is led by the Administrative
Board (including teachers, local community administrations and
parents representatives). The learning process is managed by the
Teachers Council, which is subordinated to the Administrative
Board. The principal is the chairperson of the Administrative Board
and has the executive management position. The principals main
decisions can be applied only after the Administrative Board
consent. Mr. Vasile Diaconu, computer science teacher, is also the
principals deputy, sharing the management duties. The schools
activity is also supported by the administrative departments: IT,
secretarial, accountancy and maintenance. Although we go through
economic recession, we have planned for this school year to improve
the computers in order to support, from a technical point of view a
Balkan Computer Science Contest. We plan to devise a monitoring and
evaluating system for the human resource activity having in mind
what the beneficiaries (students, parents and local community)
requires. Our plan is also to use cloud computing for all our IT
services.
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Learning Environment At the National College of Computer
Science, the school utilizes large spaces for various laboratory
classes such as computer sciences, physics, chemistry, biology, and
multimedia. Along with learning spaces, the school has invested in
laboratory equipment which allows students to be involved in
activities and experiments that require the use of new
technologies. Due to the use of technology and the small number of
students who work in groups of 13 to 16, learning and teaching have
been designed so that every student can be involved. Labs also have
general software and updated educational software where didactic
activities are developed including the following: Microsoft Office;
Classical lessons; Classical and modern lab papers consisting in
real and virtual experiments; AeL version 6.0 mock lesson; Video
projections; Auditions. The labs also integrates modern and
functional audio-video equipment, stationary video projectors,
smartboards, sound systems, computers, and laptops, all of which
enable students to work in a hands-on and visually stimulating
environment. In fact, each student is able to access course content
and tests from his or her own computer, allowing students to learn
in a more up-to-date and interactive way. By using Microsoft
Surface RT tablets and Kinect for Xbox, students have adapted
rapidly to the new technologies. Recently introduced in the
educational curriculum, the tablets are used by fifth- to
tenth-grade students. They have modernized the traditional ways in
which teachers and students interact, which prepares them for the
future. Students and teachers use Office 365 to collaborate in
different projects both in classrooms and outside (in other
cultural environment and in natural one).
APPENDIX We attach the following documents or provide links to
shared repository: Latest annual report (in romanian language) 3
recent school newsletters (INFOPULS- students newsletter- one
number in english language and another in romanian language,
TNT-science newsletter-in romanian language) A scan of 2-3 media
articles featuring your school/ teachers/ achievements
1.http://www.gandul.info/financiar/colegiul-digital-sau-cum-introduci-cu-succes-noile-tehnologii-
in-sala-de-clasa-12151372http://www.gandul.info/financiar/colegiul-digital-sau-cum-introduci-cu-succes-noile-tehnologii-
in-sala-de-clasa-12151372
2.http://ziarulceahlaul.ro/adrian-craciun-aur-la-olimpiada-nationala-de-informatica/http://ziarulceahlaul.ro/adrian-craciun-aur-la-olimpiada-nationala-de-informatica/
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APPENDIX Any other artifacts which showcase your achievements
RO-SAT ONE CanSat 2014 Competition RO-SAT ONE CanSat 2014 learning
in different environments, inside-outside communication RO-SAT ONE
CanSat 2014 peer- learning, critical thinking, problem solving,
tests RO-SAT ONE CanSat 2014 problem solving and critical
thinking
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Presentation made by: Daniela NEAMU principal Gabriela BLAGA
coordinator of the computer science comission Silvia MORE english
teacher Ovidiu NECHITA network administrator