With their Future Ready title, Savremena Gimnazija and International School Savremena are not only investing effort into creating a motivating environment for their students’ development, but they are also constantly striving to provide their teachers with additional knowledge and skills.
This is why prior to the beginning of the new school year, from Monday to Saturday, 14 – 26 August, a series of workshops will take place at the school premises at Belgrade Palace (5 Kralja Milana Street) and 45 Šumatovačka Street. The workshops will help the teachers develop professionally, and create an even better relationship with the students in the upcoming school adventure they will be enjoying together come September.
Truly different teachers
The teachers at Savremena Gimnazija and International School Savremena are young, highly- educated people with MA and PhD degrees, and abundant experience in primary and secondary schools, universities, as well as domestic and foreign science institutes. They speak fluent Serbian and English, as well as other foreign languages.
Modern teaching methods and state-of-the-art classroom technology, including iPads, tablets, laptops, interactive whiteboards and tables, 3D pens, scanners and printers, among many other smart devices, enable Savremena’s teachers to easily convey knowledge and skills to new generations in their intelligent classrooms.
Useful and interesting lectures
The topics at these workshops allow Savremena’s teachers to enhance the techniques that enable them to efficiently convey knowledge and skills, and foster a positive environment. This way, the teachers will enrich their teaching methods and adopt new practical skills and knowledge that will be beneficial to everyday activities with Savremena’s students.
Topics adjusted to each programme
All teachers at Savremena Gimnazija and International School Savremena will take part in the workshops that have been adjusted to their corresponding programmes, be it the National, the Combined – bilingual or the Cambridge programme.The topics are classified into four groups: strengthening capacities, raising self-confidence, developing creativity and adopting innovation.
Strengthening capacities: admin team and school procedures, student behaviour, class teachers and mentorship, lesson planning.
Raising self-confidence: successful communication skills, building authority and teacher competence, learning disorders (dyslexia and dysgraphia), orthography and business correspondence.
Developing creativity: marking and evaluation methods, interdisciplinary lessons, creating and marking tests, lesson structure and dynamics and group work.
Adopting innovation: Google and other educational apps for better learning, using the interactive whiteboard and the e-diary.
What are the benefits for the students and their parents?
A competent teacher will help the student achieve better results, which consequently contributes to the satisfaction of the parents.
In other words, if a teacher understands their school, from the minute details (e.g. logging on to the Platform for Students), to understanding the school’s code of conduct and how to facilitate the students’ learning process, then the communication between the teacher and the students will be void of any misunderstandings that may cause problems. And the parents, on the other hand, can approach the teacher who will provide them with an adequate and detailed response to any question.
Taking into account that Savremena Gimnazija and ISS are determined to prepare their teachers as best as possible, attendance at the workshops is compulsory. As early as 1 September, the teachers will have the opportunity to display all the skills gained at these two-week professional development workshops.
