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Aspect of contribution to teaching process
Branislav Jovanovic
Regional department in Kragujevac



GIREP Seminar
2003


The Programme for the Integral Evaluation of Schools, for example, is established through main objectives:

  • to value learning and school experience of pupils;
  • to identify strengths and weaknesses in school performance;
  • to lead school to set up self-evaluation strategies to ensure educational quality, to strengthen their autonomy and to engage school stakeholders in school improvement;
  • to contribute to educational accountability.

We can see that area «Teaching-learning processes» is wery important. For this area in focuse are:

  • The curicural projects of school and classes;
  • The classrom work, management;
  • The learning;
  • The teaching (strategy, assessement, resource, providing for diferences, efficiency, development);
  • The pedagogical climate, educational support.

The teacher needs to have proficiency in subject area and teaching metodology, a rich repertoire of metods and teacher has to be able to cooperate on the problems of his own work, communicate within school and beyond. Various metodical concept and educational support for pupils are linked with pedagogical advices and all available resource for teaching and learning. «Teaching-learning» materials are laboratory instruments, tools, textbooks, magazins, list of addresses internet sites, movies, computers programs, computers presentations, tests for evaluation and self-evaluation, list of projects, models physics phenomena, network for exchange experiences and colaboration and other metodical materials.
Teachers of physics today are encouraged to read and extract information from a variety of sources including electronic media, textbooks and magazines and to provide writtenor and verbal reports on what they have found out. Today mayority of teachers are making their projects, examinations, presentations for teaching and other materials, buth it is not widely announced. Perhaps, teachers do not enough exchange their working materials with other colleagues, schools, maybe they are not enough stimulated and motivated, maybe their role now is such. For example, when we are solving any problem (program, presentation,...), with pupils if possible, we are making our models in many different ways, we are also learning and then we are very active and creative.
Perhaps, teachers of science have a need for the teacher training center whitch has special internet site with all their «teaching-learning» materials. Teachers can always send computer programs, presentations and etc. for this site and also download all materials from it. Teachers contributions, without external control, can be put in ordered by number of visits and downloads or have only code or something similar.
Through these and many other activities, the teacher develop the knowledge, competencies, their experiences and valuable skills needed to «Teaching-learning processes» and lifelong learning.-now and in future.
For example, I am sending one small contribution «Rays diagram», geometrical optics, done in PowerPoit for approximately four hours.