Hosted by , contributed by Kyriaki_Vakkou on 13 December 2022
A main challenge for schools is to seek ways to involved several stakeholders in the journey of learning. In line with this, it is very important to recognize the full potential of every participant and to create a safe and stimulating environment to develop their talent. The investment on self-regulated learning and shared education today, can lead to future prosperity of the entire society.
The vision of a Croatian school is to become an inexhaustible source of knowledge and a foundation stone for the successful future of all relevant stakeholders: students, teachers, parents and the local community. To accomplish this vision, the school supports and develops the potential of each stakeholder through quality personalized and team-cooperative learning and teaching in a safe, encouraging and creative environment. Students and teachers are enable to plan, finance and implement projects and activities of their interests and according to their level of proficiency. The school is open to cooperation with other schools, institutions and individuals for sharing examples of good practice and presenting to the public through media and professional papers. The focus of the school’s plans is on students, however, not as isolated stakeholders in the system but always in relation to teachers, parents, and the local community.
Participants are now competent to find new sources of learning, make new acquaintances, be responsible for their own learning, support networks and form learning and teaching scenarios, all that on their own. Although the school regularly conducts self-evaluation of teachers and students at the end of each school year, it is evident that a systematic and complete evaluation of schools at the national level is required. This initiative has recently started in Croatia (national evaluation of the quality of learning and teaching), and is expected that better and more concrete indicators of the work done in schools will be provided by the National External Evaluation Project.