THE ASSOCIATION „MOTHER’S CARE“ AND THE FIRST KINDERGARTENS IN PLOVDIV

The article concerns with the opening of the first kindergarten in Plovdiv in 1884 by the association „Mother’s Care“. The article also mentions the name of the first kindergarten teacher Ekaterina P. Dessimirova. Here for the first time the thorough history o...

THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION

An important role for overcoming the formal methods and the old paradigm could be played by introducing new approaches to the process of learning like development of intuition, eidetics, early learning, competitions, initiation of more students to high achieve...

ABOURS LOST OR LABOURS WON? TEACHING SHAKESPEARE THROUGH PERFORMANCE AT SOFIA UNIVERSITY

Over the last thirty years teaching through performance has established itself as a useful approach to Shakespeare’s dramatic works all over the world. So far, this approach has not been used systematically at Sofia University. To fill this gap an experimenta...

INTERACTION OF EDUCATIONAL, RELIGIOUS AND INTERCULTURAL VALUES IN THE HISTORY OF ROMANIAN PEOPLE

Increasing current interest in understanding the place of values in society nowadays comes from contemporary access to variety of values as dominant priority of our era. Therefore we face a new cultural model resulting in meeting and more pronounced testing of...

CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT – A TOPIC FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION

This paper presents an original approach towards the current conceptual and empirical implementations of the classroom management which is relatively new area of investigation and good practices in this country. A short chronology of the first studies and dev...

USE OF LEARNER’S E-PORTFOLIO IN INSTRUCTION

The effectiveness of e-portfolios is to a greater extent a result of the active process of their development than with the final product itself. The e-portfolio allows recording the outcomes of authentic instruction and reveals opportunities for collecting dif...

THE IMPORTANCE OF CHILDREN’S PLAY

The pedagogical perspective to play has a long tradition since knowledge can be most effectively learned through play. However because of focusing on didactic value of play its specific developmental benefits remain in the background. Therefore current paper...

ANOTHER IDEA

Mathematics as a science is extremely important place in people’s lives, and studying it and mastered its laws has bene ficial effect on mental development of children. Therefore, for teachers is extremely important to find such ways and means to present the...

BULGARIAN FOLKLORE – A SOURCE OF BEAUTY AND PATRIOTISM

TO THE DISCUSSION OF ELECTRONIC TEXTBOOKS

The question about the establishment and use of electronic textbooks as a part of building a new educational environment, adequate to the changes in the society, occupies a specific place in the general discussion of the need of improving the quality of educat...

TEACHER LEADERSHIP AS A BOTTOM-UP APPROACH TO THE EDUCATIONAL REFORM

International Teacher Leadership (ITL) project is an established research and development initiative with a team consisting of over 50 experts from 15 countries supporting around 1000 teachers in around 150 schools. This article explains the origins and aims...

BUILDING TEACHER LEADERSHIP IN TURKEY THROUGH TEACHER LED DEVELOPMENT WORKS

Dr. Aytaç Göğüş and Özgür Bolat led Teacher Leadership Project in Turkey since 2009 as “New Generation Teachers“ project. 100 teachers from 15 elementary and primary schools have joined to the project since 2009 in Maltepe district of Istanbul. The project fo...

TEACHERS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Teachers professional development through “Active Teachers“ Clubs in Bulgaria is part of the International Teacher Leadership Network founded by prof. David Frost, University of Cambridge, UK and adopted in Bulgaria by the Open Society Institute team. The pilo...

TEACHER’S ADAPTING TO THE FIRST GRADE STUDENTS

Slavka Borissova, teacher in Maxim Raykovich School - Lyaskovets presents excerpts of the portfolio developed as part of her participation of “Active Teachers” Clubs in the region of Veliko Tarnovo. The teacher’s vignette describes the pedagogical approaches...

CHILDREN LOVE BEING LOVED

Ivanka Nikolova, fine art teacher in Vela Blagoeva School – Veliko Tarnovo is an active member “Active Teachers“ Clubs. During the 2011/2012 school year she worked on the portfolio aimed at developing innovative fine art approaches to improve students’partici...

THE NOISE IN THE SCHOOL – EXPERIENCE IN FINDING AN APPROACH TO REDUCE IT

Rozalia Dimkova, biology teacher in Vela Blagoeva School – Veliko Tarnovo presents excerpts of the portfolio on the noise reduction in the school. The experience in finding ways to reduce the noise in the school and classrooms is presented in brief with eviden...

FINLAND – EDUCATION AS A NATIONAL VALUE

This article draws the attention to some important features of the Finnish educational system that make it successful and socially oriented; to the mechanisms for its effective functioning and management from infancy to graduation of 12th grade and further to...