Reflective teacher - workshop in Buczacz (Ukraine)

2009-06-27 07:17:56
Buczacz, June 22-25, 2009

Teachers from Ukrainian Catholic schools participated in a course led by the Arrupe Center in June 22-25, 2009. Participants, gathered in Bazilian monastery in Buczacz (Ukraine), were introduced to different models of staff development and they learned how to grow professionally and personally through reflection on their own experience. Two Arrupe Center trainers: Elżbieta Lauk and Wojciech Żmudziński SJ shared their experience in facilitating students' and teachers' growth. It was third meeting for the same group of teachers involved into leadership formation project promoted by the Patriarchal Commission of Catholic Education and supported financialy by Koch Foundation from USA and Magis Foundation from Poland. Two other meetings took place in Lviv (January 2009) and Ivano-Frankovsk (March 2009).

Elżbieta Lauk from Lodz is presenting character education methods in mathematics.

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