ESHA Magazine April 2012.pdf

BULGARIA: LEARNING COMMUNITY AND EFFECTIVE SCHOOL
• How to encourage children to discuss and apply gained
knowledge?
– by applying different innovative technologies. We developed
school projects, made thematic presentations connected with
the biological diversity and healthy nutrition, the students got
used to look for and discover curious information, to structure
and prove their opinions connected with preserving the environment
and the healthy way of life.
– we always try to evaluate the students’ efforts in a positive way
– to encourage a personal expression of opinion and inclusion in
the group work of each student
– building such an organization of collaborative work, which guarantees
time to acquaint with the set task, analysis, discussion,
presenting the solutions and receiving a feedback.
• How can we develop the students’ emotional intelligence and
have their own opinion?
– by applying the collaborative work more actively, because
that way we give the students the possibility to form their own
opinion, to express arguments, to learn mutually to listen and
support each other, to evaluate their work.
– having in mind the age of the students while placing the tasks
for collaborative work
• How can we improve the quality of our school environment?
– we develop the communication skills – when students work
together on a given problem they change positively their relations,
start to ask questions informally, look for additional
sources of information by themselves, share what is diffi cult for
them, look for the support from the teacher or friends.
– we place the student in the center of the educational process –
we change the attitude to their responsibilities
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