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Ministry of Education and Sport
Masarykova 16
SI-1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
P: +386 1 400 5400
F: +386 1 400 5329
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- TEPE Network Annual Conference “Teacher Education in Europe: mapping the landscape and looking to the future”, 21 – 23 February 2008, Ljubljana
TEPE (Teacher Education Policy for Europe) Network has been established in 2006 to strengthen the role of European universities and their specialized faculties in developing teacher education in a new European context. Huge changes in European higher education systems, linked to the Bologna Process, raise a number of concrete questions also at the level of study areas, and teacher education is one of them. The Network is coordinated by the Umeå University, Sweden. The host of TEPE Annual Conference 2008 is the Faculty of Education of the University of Ljubljana. Almost 100 participants from 24 European countries (EU members as well as other countries) are expected to discuss various issues covered by the main title of the Conference: Teacher Education in Europe: mapping the landscape and looking to the future. Conference work consists of plenary sessions and three workshops focused to (a) advancing research in and on teacher education, (b) increasing mobility and extending European Dimension in teacher education and (c) enhancing quality in teacher education. The last day a panel will also take place where teacher education policies for Europe will be discussed from various angles (e.g. academic institutions, students, acting teachers, teacher trade unions, European Commission, European Training Foundation etc.).
Website: http://www.pef.uni-lj.si/tepe2008/theme.htm
- Francophonie Day, 20 March, Celje
National Institute of Education – its’ regional department in Celje is organizing, in co-operation with the Ministry of Education and Sport and French Institute in Ljubljana, a cultural event named “Francophonie Day in Celje”, taking place on 20 March 2008 - during the international week of Francophonie. Other partners are Municipality of Celje, Celje National Theater, TV5 and Revoz. The main objectives of the event are to gather young from all over Slovenia who learn French language, to reinforce the importance of French as one of the official and working languages of EU and to promote the francophone culture and civilisation. The organiser has invited French speaking student theatre groups from upper secondary schools, their teachers and school mates. The best talents will be rewarded.
- Rusijada, 4 April, Škofja Loka
It is for the second time that Gimnazija Škofja Loka is organizing the national festival of Slovene schools where Russian language is thought – Rusijada 2008. In the morning different workshops (on Russian music, Russian creative arts, Russian cartoon films), an exposition of Russian books, manuals, souvenirs in the school library and an exposition of photos about Russia will be organised. In the afternoon, the main event will take place in the theater hall “Loški oder”. Pupils from primary schools, students from (upper) secondary schools and from the Faculty of Arts will present short sketches, songs or extracts from plays in Russian language. The sponsor of honour of the event will be the minister of education and sport, dr. Milan Zver, other prominent guests will come from the Embassy of Russian federation, the Association Slovenia – Russia, the Municipality of Škofja Loka and others.
- EIP Slovenia 2008 “School Quality through Partnerships among Teachers, Parents and Students Challenge for School Leadership”, 20th – 24th April 2008
Partnerships among teachers, parents and students have been widely recognised as essential in developing quality schools. They can be viewed as a powerful tool for sharing responsibility for student and school development and as a means of active participation in improvement of teaching and learning. However, effective partnerships have clear implications for school leadership. School leaders should understand the importance of such partnerships and thus provide opportunities for them to develop and to inform school policy. So they should encourage parents and students to participate in decisions in schools ant to share responsibility for their implementation with school staff. School leaders should promote different ways of students’ and parents’ involvement, open their schools to parents and to new ideas and support creative partnerships.
During your visit to Slovenia you will have the opportunity to discuss how parents and students participate in schools through formal structures, how they influence school policy and escpecially how partnerships are created through less formal activities and events. You will discuss these issues with teachers, students and parents while school leaders will reflect on their role and their strategies in establishing collaborative partnerships will all stakeholders.
Institution: Zavod sv. Stanislava (St. Stanislav’s Institution), Štula 23, 1210 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Contact : katja.dragar(at)guest.arnes.si joze.mlakar(at)guest.arnes.si Telephone: + 386 1 582 22 00
- 24th meeting of the Standing Group of Indicators and Benchmarks (SGIB), 24-25 April, Bled, Hotel Astoria
The Standing Group on Indicators and Benchmarks (SGIB) offers professional support to the European Commission with regard to the development of the Coherent framework on indicators and benchmarks, the development of new indicators, the preparation and dissemination of the Progress Towards the Lisbon Objectives in Education and Training Report as well as other activities concerning the monitoring of the EU E&T system and evaluation of its progress.
At the 24th regular meeting of the SGIB main emphasis will be given to the Progress Report 2008 and to the results of studies related to the development of new indicators. In addition, the meeting will be an opportunity to present the Slovenian E&T system and some of its achievements.
- Meeting of the European Network on Teacher Education Policies ENTEP "Partnership and Research in Teacher Education for Innovation and Creativity", 8-10 May, Ljubljana, Faculty of Education University of Ljubljana
In the conclusions of the Council and of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States on “Improving the Quality of Teacher education” (October 2007) Ministers consider that (...) «the education and training of teachers is a crucial element in the modernisation of European education and training systems, and future increases in the overall level of educational attainment (...) in order to enable teachers to adapt their teaching methods to the evolving needs of learners (...).
In this overall effort many European countries are developing models of partnerships to involve all actors in the field of teacher education in a cooperative process and some countries (like Finland, Denmark, Sweden and Germany, also Slovenia) are already experiencing the positive effects and the innovative power of institutional partnerships. Especially the cooperation of teacher education institutions and schools including continuous professional development can help to bridge the often experienced gap between ‘theory’ and ‘practice’ and share research based knowledge and experience to enable each party to benefit from each other's work.
Partnerships between teacher education institutions and schools can contribute to the development of new knowledge and activate a collective learning and researching for new/innovative teaching approaches that respond to learner needs.
The collaboration of the involved partners should not only focus on the education of student teachers, but also on the professional development of staff within schools, on curriculum innovation and the initiation and sharing of research results.
A conference on this thematic field can be a rather challenging and inspiring event to exchange existing experience, share good practice or evolving practice, give impulses for next practice and promote mutual learning.
ENTEP Conference will also be an opportunity to follow-up the International Conference “Promoting Innovation and Creativity: Schools’ Response to the Challenges of Future Societies”, which will take part within the Slovenian Presidency of the EU 2008 in April 2008.
- Europe at School– International Conference »Education for Intercultural Dialogue« and Final Prize-giving Ceremony of the Competition, 9 May 2008, Nova Gorica
The organizers of the conference have formulated a question: Have we parents, teachers and pedagogues, university professors, mentors and youth leaders, journalists and editors as policy makers done enough to make possible for the youth to achieve the knowledge, the attitudes, the social skills and competences that are necessary for human respect, respect for diversity, tolerant communication, peaceful cohabitation and intercultural dialogue? Are we qualified enough to achieve that? These questions are going to be discussed during the conference by participants from Slovenia, neighboring countries and countries from southeastern Europe.
- Europe at School Competition – final prize-giving ceremony, 9 May, Nova Gorica
Each year about 20.000 young people from all over Slovenia compete at Europe at School competition in five different categories: literary, artistic, photo, research and internet competition. The theme of this year call is “Intercultural dialogue – other cultures enrich me”. In May, the winners gather at the national prize-giving ceremony which is, this year, taking place in Nova Gorica and organised by European House Nova Gorica. The chief patron of this year celebration is dr. Danilo Türk, President of the Republic of Slovenia.
- Lifelong Learning Week (LLW)
16 May, Maribor – Opening, 19-25 May different places in Slovenia
The Slovenian Lifelong Learning Week is the most prominent promotional campaign in the field of education and learning in Slovenia. Since 1996, the festival has been paving the way for a profound understanding and implementation of the culture of lifelong learning by attracting public attention to 3,000 – 4,000 inspiring educational, promotional, information and guidance, as well as social and cultural, events. At the national level, it has been coordinated by the Slovenian Institute for Adult Education (SIAE), and has grown into a movement which annually involves up to 500 institutions, NGOs, interest groups and other stakeholders. Among the leading themes of LLW 2008 are the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008 and the 500th birth anniversary of Primož Trubar the father of the written Slovenian language.The Slovenian LLW is a member of the international learning festivals’ (IntALW) movement coordinated by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), Germany. Nowadays, the movement encompasses around 40 learning festivals throughout the world.
- Conference »History in action - Preparing for the History Teaching in Common Future«, 29-30 May, Bled, Hotel Astoria
The aim of the conference is to present new approaches in history teaching in Slovenia and Europe especially in connection with the possibilities of introducing the intercultural dialogue in history teaching. The conference will present an example of teachers' guide regarding intercultural dialogue in history teaching which is a result of a European project carried out by Euroclio (European Association of History Educators) and Slovenian History Teachers' Association in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Meeting of the Eurydice Restricted Working Group on the topic of decentralisation, 19-20 June, Ljubljana
Eurydice is a network of 35 national units which central concerns are to collect and exchange information on education systems and policies, to develop databases, to produce comparative studies and to draw up indicators. In 2006 several National Eurydice Units had reported increasing problems in collecting data due to an ongoing process of decentralisation in their education systems. Therefore, the European Unit established the Restricted Working Group dedicated to the topic of decentralisation in the field of education.
The RWG has been progressively developing a mapping of decentralisation to show who is responsible for the different areas in education in each Eurydice network country. This approach will support the process of data collection, as well as an external use, given that the network as a whole and the EEU are receiving more and more requests from the Commission and national users for information on the organisation of educational systems.
The RWG meets regularly once a year. In 2008, the meeting shall take place in Slovenia.
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