Project Summary – “Creative teacher – a new dimension of the school”. Saint Cyril and Methodius Primary School at Bernolákova 18, Košice, is an urban-type church school with almost 600 pupils. The potential of pupils and teachers in cooperation with parents and the municipality provides complex creative safe educational environment with a community feeling. Every year over 90% of pupils who finish our school go on to study at grammar schools. The project consists of two activities: A1: Staff training abroad In this activity 11 teachers are going to take part in one- or two- week courses organized by International Study Programmes in the U. K and ActiLingua Academy in Austria. The courses focus on improving teachers´ language skills and creative teaching methods. The aim of activity A1 is to enrich the teachers´ professional portfolio by an international dimension of education and consequently to raise the quality of teaching, to implement new creative innovative methods and thus to increase the motivation of teachers as well as pupils by means of the acquired new teaching strategies. A2: Job shadowing This activity includes job shadowing at Katolicka Szkola Podstawowa im.sw. Jadwigi Krolowej in Krakow, Poland. Two participants – teachers for lower secondary education – will observe the teaching process, methods and procedures, compare the effectiveness of organization of the teaching process and look for inspiration for their teaching practice. The aim of activity A2 is to acquire a new perspective of teaching standards and strategies, to compare educational systems in other European countries with that in Slovakia, to find inspiration and motivation for teaching pupils and to exchange ideas and experience with teachers from EU countries. The number of participants after careful consideration and selection is 13. The participants have been suggested in a way which will ensure the greatest possible dissemination effect of the project and enable the desired changes at all levels of education , starting from the school management (the director) through creative methods of teaching at lower secondary level (5 teachers) and creative methodology at primary level : 5 teachers – deputy director, head of methodological commission, 2 teachers, one educator covering the activities of children´s after school club (extra – curricular activities at primary level) and teacher - special needs consultant . All participants of the project have been carefully selected. They are creative and eager to grow professionally. Thus they can bring a new international aspect into the educational process and overall development of our school. We expect that implementing the project activities will bring results at many levels: greater motivation of teachers and pupils, acquiring international contacts, raising effectiveness of teaching, passing the acquired knowledge and experience on to other teachers, opening the school to international activities, presenting the experience on seminars and open lessons and spreading the school´s good name. The experience of this international environment will be a great contribution for the teachers and later also for the pupils. From the long-term point of view we will acquire and present knowledge, competence and skills for life so that our school can compete with other schools in the region, become “a learning community”, take part in the globalized society in EU and contribute to it.