Our constant exposure to huge amounts of new information is changing our behaviour. For all of us, it is becoming extremely difficult to focus on one topic for longer period of time. The concentration span on one topic is measured in seconds. We, as educators, are aware that it is very difficult to motivate students to be engaged in the learning process.
Let us meet and discuss ways to motivate students to be engaged and to learn.
Our guest speakers in this webinar are:
Selçuk Yusuf Arslan from Turkey is a computer science teacher at Ataturk Vocational and Technical High School in Ankara, Turkey. Due to his interest in STEM and SDGs, he has been carrying out outstanding projects on these issues. He has received numerous rewards and prizes. Mr. Arslan was selected as finalists of Global Teacher Prize in 2021. He was one of the lead teachers of Aerospace in Class Project which funded by the Airbus Foundation and coordinated by European Schoolnet.
Teachers encounter a different student profile every year. Methods used to motivate students may not work with varying student groups. Teachers are also looking for new ways to motivate students. In his presentation, Mr Arslan will question what these new methods are. On the other hand, he will detail why innovation is important for a teacher's professional development with examples.
Ivana Marincek Mihajlovikj from North Macedonia is a licensed psychologist and psychotherapist, member of the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP) and the European Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT), a Child Centered Play Therapy Practitioner and licensed career counselor (GCDF). Mrs. Marincek is vice-president of The Association for Psychology and Psychotherapy “Psihoterapika”, volunteer and a national PHV instructor of the Red Cross of North Macedonia, as well as the National Psychologist Supervisor for MENSA North Macedonia, society for high IQ individuals. She has rich experience both in formal and non-formal education and loves to work with adolescents and young adults.
Motivation is a deeply complex process that is both cognitive and emotional in the same time, regardless whether we are aware of it or not. Emotions bring powerful charge and are able to immediately grasp one’s attention and engage all the capacities of one’s personality into something once awakened.
Taking a holistic approach towards the process of learning, Mrs. Marincek Mihajlovikj is going to talk about the emotions as an entry point to learning and how we can create an atmosphere for learning in which we can safely awaken and engage emotions in the process of learning within the classroom.
Vladica Stojanovic from Serbia is mechanical engineer that is teaching in VET school for almost 10 years. In addition to teaching, he has 10 years of work experience in the mechanical industry. In his school he has also been involved in career guidance and professional orientation in the school, re-qualification programmes, purchasing and maintaining equipment of VET workshops and cabinets and advisor for adult education and recognition of prior learning.
Mr. Stojanovic will be speaking about his experiences in motivating students through peer communication between students, collegiality, students' motivation for involvement in local communities and active job search, improving skills and competences.
Students, as important part of the process of students' motivation, will be represented by Stefan Mladenoski. Mr. Mladenovski is a former VET student, now a Business Administration student at the International University of Bad Honeff and Financial Management student at the American University of Europe FON. Participant in more than 10 international trainings on non-formal education and social entrepreneurship in North Macedonia and abroad. A high achieving student who in the future sees himself as a professor who encourages the students to upgrade themselves constantly rather then giving them grades only.
Mr. Mladenovski will present students approach, opinions and view on the activities to motivate students to be more engaged in the learning process.
The event will be conducted with simultaneous translation between English and Serbian languages.
Your experiences and ideas are very important. Please register and join us on this webinar.
Link to register: https://bit.ly/CNL_Feb24
Thank you for your interest in this topic. This event is mainly targeting Balkans and Turkey, although all interested participants are welcomed. However, due to technical reasons we cannot provide translation into all interested participants' languages. If you do not understand English well, there are a lot of other interesting activities that are happening or are translated into Russian; you can join them.