How, Why, Can we?

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Elementary School Gornja Vežica Teacher Magazine, Rijeka,
4th issue, October 2020

Bearing in mind the 25th anniversary of our school, we published our first teacher magazine anniversary issue. Student magazines are not something new, however a teacher magazine is not something very frequent. The aim is to put down all teacher experience and therefore incite other teachers and schools to follow. The first issue was about the examples of good teacher practice and creative work.

In a married life the 50th wedding anniversary is also called the “golden wedding anniversary”. Therefore, our 4th issue is also “golden”, and the topic is “How, Why, Can we?” because this is the name of our creative workshops that have been taking place in our school since 2017. “Golden” here refers to something that is very valuable, and these are, first and foremost, people – our (potentially) gifted students and teachers.
There are five sections to the magazine
In the section How, Why, Can we? we talk about the experiences of our teachers who were the leading creators of these creative workshops within the programme. How to write with an invisible ink, how to find a key for fashion combinations in English language, how to build an eco-memory or how to fly in a Vrančić parachute? How to create a myth, or how to travel to the secret Herezeud are some of the topics you can read about in this section.
Caring about the gifted students was present not just in the workshops, but also during the lessons at our school. It is extremely important to Go beyond the average concept of a lesson. Therefore, in this section we want to show a different approach to teaching.
A well-known approach to encouraging gifted students in our school is the E Maths Classroom. With this programme not only do we incite gifted students in our school, but we go further and include students from other schools in Rijeka. The teacher articles in this section show that Maths x Love = E Classroom. The love and creativity that the teachers have for this subject has resulted in numerous publications that we present in this section. You can find out how to design a bike trail by using the Pythagorean Theorem or how to corelate Maths with the national heritage.
In order for our students to prosper, to grow, the collaboration between the school and home is of extreme importance, as well as the trust between the students and the teacher mentors. These firm bonds seen by the three teachers are discussed in the section Growing together.
We hope that our teacher magazine inspires and transmits enthusiasm to other teacher colleagues so that our students can grow and prosper.