Archive for April, 2015

New possibilities of Erasmus+ program in teachers’ vocational education

The United school in Martin, in the Slovak Republic and the Secondary School of Engineering in Chrudim, Czech Republic, have prepared the Etwinning project “Training Young Specialists Together”. The objective of the project is to increase the quality and attractiveness of technical education in the regions where partner schools...

Teachers and Personal Promotion

It is quite difficult to find the words “personal promotion” and “teacher” together in a same line. Teachers are mostly humble, idealistic, hardworking people, always ready to help and to give some good advice, full of understanding, support, warmth… but to think about personal promotion … noooo. In a...

How I worked with PROFILES modules

I have used several PROFILES modules in my teaching. Here I am going to describe briefly how I used one of them in my class. When teaching acids in chemistry, I decided to include a PROFILES module titled “Coca Cola – myths and reality“. “PROFILES“ is the acronym for...