Vesna Gros, Renata Krivec, Petra Mikeln, OŠ Polje

At our school we have been noticing for a while that our students are quite unrealistic in their expectations and unable to plan their work and take responsibility for their learning. The main objective of the EUfolio project is to equip our students with skills for planning, monitoring and evaluating their own progress, which are the core principles of formative assessment. In the project we use the Mahara e-portfolio, an online application in which students can upload their blogs, files, pictures and videos. It also contains a forum; however, its main advantage is that users decide themselves which parts of their portfolio will be visible to other users. The most useful tool for formative assessment is the “My learning” tab, where students plan their work. Teachers can monitor and guide them towards their goals by means of constructive feedback. Students can also be critical friends to each other and evaluate their own work and the work of their peers. We will present what our students have learned in the past two years (from us and from each other) and what we have learned from them and from our colleagues.

Ivan Dovič, OŠ Brinje

In my article I will present a two-day workshop for the gifted and talented students of the 8th and 9th classes. Students worked in small groups, where they were instructed in how to start and manage a start-up company. The students designed and created their products, prepared presentation photos and videos, created a web page, carried out a market analysis or drew up company’s financial analysis. Nowadays students are bombarded with disturbing news about high unemployment rates, but at the same time also with stories of successful business ventures. Such information triggered the idea of organizing a start-up workshop and our intention was to equip the best students of our school with some basic knowledge, required to successfully found and manage a company. The students were very enthusiastic about the topic and highly motivated. The gifted and talented students surpass their peers or even teachers in many areas, including the use of ICT. Therefore, we have decided to divide the students into groups, where they were able to broaden their knowledge, search for creative solutions, gain experience and develop abilities according to their area of giftedness.

Urška Repinc, Marija Helena Logar, Janka Komac, OŠ dr. Janeza Mencingerja

The contribution presents school project work, which means enrichment for pupils, mostly talented, for school and school community. Projects are led by school professionals, who see the opportunity for realisation of the goals of the subject or activity they teach. Research literature and evidence based practice offer different models for team working at project work. The presented model shows how four teacher can collaborate: the theme teacher, school librarian, ICT teacher and teacher connected to »presenting« skills. The essence of such collaboration is that through learning process they learn a lot from each other. And then they imply the new knowledge and skills into daily work. It is important that this opportunity offers experiences to learn from pupils! Since projects are different every year. They are based on inquiry activities. Results depend on ideas and creativity of pupils and teachers. At the conference the experiences of International Peace Project will be presented. The project was devoted to 70th anniversery of Alliance landing in Normandy. It will be presented from the perspective of learning from each other (teachers – mentors) and from participating pupils, mostly about ICT use in this process.