Agencija za odgoj i obrazovanje

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• Agencija za odgoj i obrazovanje
• Education and Teacher Training Agency

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• By the new Act from July 26, 2006
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• Institute for Educational Development of the
  Republic of Croatia
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• Education and Teacher Training Agency
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• Statute January 26, 2007

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• Internal organization departments and units
• Department for Legal Affairs, Accounting and
  Support Services
• Unit for Legal Affairs, Personnel and Support
  Services
• Accounting Unit
• Department for General Affairs
• Common Affairs Unit
• International Cooperation Unit
• Unit for Professional Development and Training of
  Principals
• Department for Pre-School Education and Primary
  Schools
• Pre-School Education Unit
• Unit for Class Teaching
• Unit for Subject Teaching

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• Internal organization - subsidiaries
• Subsidiary Osijek
• Viroviticko-podravska, Požeško-slavonska,
  Brodsko-posavska, Osjecko-baranjska and
  Vukovarsko srijemska Counties
• Subsidiary Rijeka
• Primorsko-goranska, Licko-senjska and Istarska
  Counties
• Subsidiary Split
• Zadarska, Šibensko-kninska, Splitsko-dalmatinska
  and Dubrovacko-neretvanska Counties

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• Professional Development
• Goal improve professional competencies
• Pre-school institutions educators, assistant
  educators, principals
• Primary schools teachers, teaching assistants,
  principals
• Secondary schools/grammar schools teachers,
  teaching assistants, principals
• Students Dormitories educators, assistant
  educators, principals

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• Professional Development
• State level
• Regional level inter-county and county
• Local level in cooperation with heads of County
  Professional Councils)
• 881 primary school Ministry of Science,
  Education and Sports provided financial support
  in the amount of HRK 3,964,500 for professional
  conferences at the local level
• 463 secondary school - Ministry of Science,
  Education and Sports provided financial support
  in the amount of HRK 2,085,300 for professional
  conferences at the local level

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• Professional Development Agency Catalogue for
  the year 2007

State Inter-County County Other Total
126 376 203 9 714
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• Professional Development Professional
  Development Catalogue

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• Professional Development
• Preparing educational and teaching staff of
  primary schools to apply the Croatian National
  Educational Standard
• Introduction of the new syllabus for primary
  schools
• National exams in grammar schools and four-year
  vocational schools
• Preparation for the state school leaving exam
  2009/10

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• Professional Development
• Partners
• Ministry of Science, Education and
• Sports and other ministries in
• the Republic of Croatia
• Faculties
• Vocational Education and Training Agency,
  National Centre for the External Evaluation of
  Education
• Civil sector and professional associations
• International institutions (Council of Europe
  European Commission, Embassies...)

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• Topics
• Joint framework for the implementation and
  transformation of the primary and secondary
  education system
• Academic discipline / teaching methods in
  individual subjects
• Improving competencies from the area of
  educational sciences (didactics, educational
  psychology, social pedagogy, sociology of
  education)
• Organization, management, and leadership in
  education
• Improving professional support teaching
  assistants and mentors for trainees

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• Areas of Professional Development - examples
• Improving competencies regarding specific areas
  of education (artistic expression, religious and
  physical education, early teaching of foreign
  languages)
• Improving competencies related to specific
  aspects of childs development (sensomotoric
  development, emotional development, developmental
  difficulties....)
• General professional competencies (team work,
  interactive communication, partnership with
  parents....)
• Childs affective development (emotional
  intelligence, preventive programs....)

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• Areas of Professional Development - examples
• General competencies (drafting of projects)
• Improving mentorship skills
• Concepts of professional development and
  life-long learning
• Preparation for taking professional state exams -
  trainees
• Practical questions related to school practice

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• National programs
• Preventing violence against children and among
  children
• Preventing drug abuse
• Promoting rights of the child
• Safety in schools
• Preventing family violence
• Prevention of HIV infections (AIDS)
• Preventing behavioral disorders
• Preventing trafficking of children
• Education for human rights

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• Professional development
• Year 2006 1,028 professional conferences
  68,170 educational and teaching staff
  participated at professional conferences
• During the school year 2005/6 heads of County
  Professional Councils organized 3059 professional
  conferences with 97,711 participants report by
  631 heads of County Professionals Councils from
  primary schools

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• Competitions and festivals

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• Competitions and festivals
• 36 competitions and festivals
• 138,883 students ? school level
• 31,897 students ? county level
• 7,162 students ? state level
• June 10, 2006 ? award of recognitions for 221
  state champions, and 187 mentors
• EUQUIZ ? in cooperation with the Ministry of
  Foreign Affairs and European Integration

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• Promotions
• 2005 ? 302 educational and teaching staff members
  promoted to the level of mentors/advisors
• 2006 ? 927 educational and teaching staff members
  promoted to the level of mentors/advisors
• Currently in the Republic of Croatia ? 3,651
  mentors and advisors ? 4.066 after the promotion
  in October
• 2004 403 received cases plan to process them
  by February 28, 2007
• 2005 252 received cases plan to process them
  by June 15, 2007
• 2006 beginning of processing the cases
  September 10, 2007

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• Professional State Exams
• 420 educators
• 1382 educational and teaching staff members from
• primary schools
• 305 educational and teaching staff members from
• secondary schools

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• Partnership projects - Council of Europe

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• Publishing activity

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• Partnership projects National Council for
  Special Education

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• Publishing activity - pdf. format

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• For all additional information on the work of the
  Agency and possibilities of potential
  cooperation, please contact Agencys advisors
  present here today.
• Thank you for your attention !

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