The First Teaching and Training Activity Held In Slovenia

The first teaching and training activity within the Erasmus+ KA2project “Challenge the competencies of the 21st century“ was held in Elementary School Bistrica ob Sotli in Slovenia. At the five-day training held from 5th to 10th December, 2016, participated a five member project team from the First Elementary School Varaždin : Tea Pavičić Zajec – the coordinator of the project, elementary school teachers Sonja Tušek-Podobnik, Draženka Kolonić i Verica Šilec and an English teacher Stella Kulaš.

The members of the project teams have been working on the first module of education with selected applications which serve to motivate students in the introductory part of the lesson. Using the platforms Kahoot, Plickers, Nearpod and QRcode, teachers can create their own quizzes and assignments that help students test their knowledge or revise learned content. Activities “Gamification in the world”, “Reverse Classrooms”, “Bloom’s Taxonomy”, “Secular Trends in the Education” and “Innovative teaching 1:1” were held by Bogomir Marčinković, the school principal and Vanja kolar-Ivačič, the project coordinator.

After the training teachers enjoyed the Slovenian traditional gastronomy and tasted famous Slovenian wines. The last day of the training was held in Ljubljana where teachers could enjoy the “Advent in Ljubljana”, visit cultural sights and acquire knowledge of the history of this amazing city. The training ended with a delicious dinner accompanied by a cheerful and warm athosphere.