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The aim of the article was to analyze the results of a survey conducted among students. The survey concerned the assessment of contemporary education by young people between 12 and 17 years of age. Detailed answers of the respondents to twenty-eight questions made it possible to establish the attitude of students to science, teachers, school, and to create the image of the student and the teacher.
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The aim of the article is to raise the issue of educational coaching and its use during Polish language lessons in a secondary school. The author explains the concept of coaching and presents its genesis. It lists the characteristics of a good coach, paying attention to the competences of a modern teacher. It also presents exemplary coaching methods and techniques that he uses in the work of a Polish language teacher.
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The article will delineate the characteristics of Generation Alpha (Post-Gen-Z); children who were born after 2010, students at Polish schools today. The author will try to answer several questions related to Generation Alpha teaching environment – what the priorities and potential challenges there are, how they learn, what kind of school and teachers they need. In the article, issues such as new technologies and innovations in foreign language education as well as key competencies and XXI century skills of the Alpha students will be described.
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The contemporary world is characterized by dynamic changes and progress in almost every area of life, while education, which is the engine for all development, is still carried out in the Prussian model, with a history of two centuries. The necessity to undertake activities aiming at adapting education to the requirements of the 21st century reality seems indisputable. The article attempts to show how the reorganization of classroom space can mark the beginning of revolutionary changes in the functioning of primary schools. It highlights the need to transform the ‘old’ one-way teaching model into a „new” approach based on learning from each other. This is going to be achieved through the change of desk arrangement, which, in a way, forces the need to remodel both the role of the teacher and the student. An appropriate organization of classroom space allows teachers to implement the methods which break with the traditional pattern of knowledge transmission and enable the development of competences that are important today. The teacher then becomes the organizer of a learning process, and the students are its important subjecs – active participants. The article also contains a list of good teaching practices, which can be implemented in a modern public school in order to minimize the importance of frontal teaching.
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Although the Polish school continues the 19th-century model of Prussian education, there are alternative ideas appear on the educational map, e.g. in the form of free democratic schools which, apart from a pedagogical experiment, set new trends in the 21st century. The presented paper recalls the thoughts of the creators of alternative pedagogy: Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner and Kurt Hahn, but also shows the creative ferment of the pedagogy of hope – the Dutch school of peace and the grassroots movement of “Schule im Aufbruch” using the latest research from neurobiologists. The author of paper shares his experience and describes the pedagogical innovation that functioned for six years in the middle school. The interdisciplinary hybrid connected the formal education with non-formal activities and block teaching with the high autonomy of students in terms of class self-governance. The context for considering school is the analysis of the results of the Report on mental and physical well-being of young people (UNICEF).
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Janusz Korczak understood the role of the educator as a process of searching and wandering. He compared the actions of an educator to the medical profession. Although his pedagogical writings and books were written almost a century ago, they are still relevant today. Korczak’s timeliness is manifested primarily in the equality of the child and the educator. The constant question “why?” contains the element of an explorer of the child’s personality, but above all it is the quintessence of being human in building interpersonal relations. His philosophy of education still inspires many educators today. The world of VUCA poses countless challenges to contemporary educators. What would Korczak advise them?
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The growing number of mental disorders among children and teenagers, resulting from fear or distress, but very often also from a traumatic experience, poses yet another challenge a contemporary teacher has to take up. Teaching a child after a traumatic event requires specialistic knowledge and respecting certain rules that provide a guidance in the trauma zone. This article presents basic characteristics of trauma and some dos and don’ts when encountering this phenomenon in the classroom. Additionally, certain therapeutic solutions that can be implemented in the course of the lesson are presented. The article shows that the traumatized children very often have a limited access to psychologists or psychotherapists, therefore they seek help at school where the person they turn to is a teacher, who, despite the lack of professional education in the field of psychology, has tools to offer such children the feeling of safety and the possibility to return to normal functioning or even to post-traumatic growth.
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The aim of the article is to defend the thesis that the worked through failure affects the development of a person through getting to know oneself and exploring the knowledge in the area where it is insufficient. The article states that failure is unavoidable, therefore from childhood a person should be taught to perceive it as a natural phenomenon. It is worth teaching children to see failure as a positive phenomenon as well, not just a negative one. When teaching children and young people, one should ensure the child’s development by adapting the methods of work to the student’s abilities and talents. A teacher, teaching children and youth to accept failure, should implement various educational methods. The contemporary model of working with children and youth offered by professional literature, presents a way of working with gifted students and students with educational problems. Methods of working with an average student are not developed. Besides, the model of working with a student is designed to result in his/her success. These studies suggest that failure is only a negative phenomenon, and that success is a positive one. The article also highlights learning from failure, which teaches coping skills for adult life.
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Working with young children, we must bear in mind their multilateral development needs. Currently, in kindergartens there are a lot of pupils with various disorders. Recently, there is a significant increase of those who need sensory integration therapy. In the following study, I present the process of conducting the aforementioned therapy and present practical solutions aimed at developing communication skills.
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In all the deliberations concerning the conditioning of the teacher’s life, it is essential to pay attention to the organisational factors. Among those we can distninguish the external conditions of the teacher’s work in the context of which their activity takes place. Every single conditioning aspect can be the subject of a separate qualitative analysis. Therefore, in this author’s further considerations only certain organisational factors of career shall be presented – those that have been deemed essential and having influence on the degree of mutual interpersonal relations in teams in which the teachers of early education operate. This author arrived at the conclusion that it would be of value to analyse the very issue of interpersonal relations in the teachers’ environment. For the school’s activity is the more effective the more its teachers are able to cooperate smoothly, the better they understand one another and are able – with concentrated joint effort – to refine and improve the style of their respective individual work.
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Reading and writing are among the key competences of the modern world, and their development is one of the basic tasks of the school, yet Poland is facing an extremely popular phenomenon of non-reading. Looking for answers to the questions posed in Sense and Nonsense of early childhood education by prof. D. Klus-Stańska, a solution that is unique on a national scale has been developed – Effective astonishment, is learning to read and write that liberates thinking. The latest cognitive research indicates the most important principles that should be met if we want to think about effective learning. The aforementioned concept relates to many of these discoveries, and it is precisely the correlation between this innovative approach and the findings of cognitive research that I demonstrate in the following text. An active student in the learning process, linking with prior knowledge, or activating the emotional and volitional spheres during the acquisition of knowledge make learning effective and attractive.
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The aim of the article is to show the possibilities of combining education with an environment friendly to modern students. Learning through group play, using various scientific discourses, becomes more effective and practical. This paper presents examples of Polish lessons in primary school, analyzing the literary text with the use of musical and artistic materials, as well as exercises developing creativity and the ability to work in teams.
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Assessment is an integral part of learning. If it is detached from the thoughtless insertion of the grade into the assessment journal that informs the student about what he knows and can do, it will also guide the teacher in planning and implementing the teaching process. This article presents strategies for obtaining information from students about their learning using a variety of applications and a variety of lesson monitoring techniques.
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Key and future competences are a very important part of the educational process, and the obligation to teach them is included in the preamble to the core curriculum of general education. The article presents a reflection on the role of Polish language education as well as future and key competences in primary school. Based on the work of Jeremi Lamri and other researchers, a list of skills useful in the labor market has been presented. It was also shown how the competences of the future can be developed with the help of Polish language education projects.
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The subject of this paper is one of the greatest threats to contemporary cultural reality – the creation and dissemination of fake news in the media space, as well as an attempt to answer whether and to what extent Polish language teaching responds to the need for students to acquire methods of content verification. The coronavirus pandemic, various social initiatives, and nowadays also the war in Ukraine clearly illustrate how powerful the content published on the Internet is and how vulnerable to it the recipients, unaware of manipulative procedures, may be. The aim of this article is to review school textbooks from the perspective of the presence of the above-mentioned problems in them, as well as to propose our own methodological solutions.
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Over the past few decades, ICTs have been widely used in all areas of life and business and have effectively changed the way people operate and function in the labor market. However, the integration of ICT into education is a more recent phenomenon. The underlying reasons are perhaps closely related to the pedagogical aspirations of the education system. While traditional education takes place in the form of social learning (group activities) or is entirely teacher-led, the pedagogical change brought by education based on ICT tools is a shift from teacher-centered to student-centered learning. As such, these tools empower students, make learning interactive and develop critical thinking. They also encourage and facilitate more contextualized learning processes. ICT has helped to remove the isolation associated with distance learning and has changed the nature of remote education. In this discussion, I will examine the aforementioned changes and how they have affected secondary and higher education lecturers and students who have no choice but to study at a distance and choose to use ICTs to gain flexible access to online classes and resources.
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In this article, I focus on presenting the theoretical assumptions of the 6-step teaching method for the subject of computer science. The use of this teaching method by primary school teachers can significantly increase the quality of the content presented. The method indicated in this article was previously developed by the author of the thesis entitled The teaching and controlling program „Modern programmable logic circuits in the design of digital circuits with a large scale of integration”. The developed method was implemented in the ICON program for learning the basics of designing digital circuits in the base of modern programmable microcircuits. However, its universality allows the implementation of other content, tasks and items.
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The aim of the article is to discuss methodological and didactic issues related to the foreign language classes conducted remotely and to show the potential that lies in the use of Internet tools in online foreign language teaching. The main question that guides the considerations here relates to the effectiveness of learning through online platforms and applications. The author analyses the specifics of online classes and points out what to pay special attention to while conducting them.
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With the growing interest in the suicide phenomenon, more and more information on intervention and social education has emerged over the past decades. A fuller understanding of the topic of self-destruction along with helping people in a suicidal crisis and their relatives may contribute to reducing the number of sudden deaths. Through a review of research and specialist literature, the work explains the phenomenon of suicide survivors and presents how suicide affects people in the suicide’s environment. Moreover, it distinguishes needs of suicide-bereaved families. It also emphasizes what forms of help may be effective for people who come into contact with suicide and deal with grief as a result of it.
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