Iztok Škof, Osnovna šola Toma Brejca
Our priority is to encourage students to develop critical and creative thinking and problem-solving abilities and decision-making. We help them to build up competencies of 21st century and to acquire skills for life.
To individualize instructions and learning for each student and his learning abilities was our primary goal. We would like to transform the curriculum so that it will be closer to the pupil and his curiosity. We wanted to teach students how to think, to look for answers to the questions, to ask the right questions and get the answers.
Curricular connections, as identified by various authors (Škerjanc, Rutar IIc) allows integration through content, activities, teaching methods and procedures (eg, active learning, project-based approach), the use of learning tools (eg. ICT, thinking processes, skills and habits (eg. developing critical thinking, creative thinking, problem solving abilities and decision-making, the so-called skills for the 21st century).
So we connected with the geography course, in which the students discussed the South and Southwest Asia. Each student got his teaching unit and guidelines for the work from the curriculum. First, they made a draft of a final product, and then the presentation for interactive whiteboard. Presentation to the classmates was performed in the end. Each student needed to prepare activities for classmates and thus checked whether classmates understood the presentation.