Just testing if this works?

Just a short message to begin with

Hello all the participants to the study visit.
I'm writing this evenig, by a beautiful starlit night, from the secondary school were I'm working (I sleep here on mondays, cause there are boarders I have to take care of).


I'm french and my english is not so good (perhaps because I'm french ? !!) so I didn't understand all the subtilities of all the messages... despite it was a pleasure to read your contributions and I find it's a great idea Jukka had to start this blog.

There are two months left to improve my english level and I' think the blog can help !

How can I introduce myself ?
For the second year, I'm the second principal of a secondary school of a small town in Auvergne, a rural country typicaly known for his volcanos (you can have a look to the picture below).
Before, I was teacher in primary schools. I was often in charge of public with special needs.
As I'm a new manager, I'm undergoing training, and the curiculum includes discovery of foreign educational systems.
That's why I applied for the visit.

Very happy to get to know you all better !

Fabrice

 

Hello everybody from Slovenia

Hello,

My name is Sanja Gradišnik and I come from Slovenia. I also think that this is a great opportunity to know each other before we will see in Romania.

At the beginning, I will tell you something about me. I don’t have so many experiences like Mr. Jukka O. Mattila.

I studied mathematics and engineering at Faculty of Education at University in Ljubljana. I started working in a primary school in 2007, where I was teaching mathematics and engineering. One year later I graduated. I also decided to continue my studies, so I enrolled for a course at International School for Social and Business Studies. I would like to finish this study in this year.

In 2009 I changed my job. One day something unusual happened: my professor of management in educational organization invited me to work at National School for Leadership in Education. At the beginning I thought he was joking, but then I realised that he was completely serious. So I decided to change my job. I wanted to do other interesting things. So from 2009 till now I work at National School for Leadership in Education. First I worked only in the office, mostly on researches. But then I started giving lectures on a four-year-long national project (training for self-evaluation). The project entitled Designing and introducing a quality assurance system in schools in Slovenia is in progress in the period between 2008 and 2014.

I am also involved in a project called Learning to learn (funded from European social fund). I am a lecturer and have workshops on this theme (deep and shallow learning, motivation, relationship between teacher and student, team working ext.) on different schools. I work and run workshops with the various head teachers.  

Kind regards.