• DocumentCode
    3043266
  • Title

    School that has a vision

  • Author

    Miticky, V.

  • Author_Institution
    Tatranska Akademia, Poprad, Slovakia
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    8-9 Nov. 2012
  • Firstpage
    275
  • Lastpage
    278
  • Abstract
    The article is devoted to presentation of the concept and results of the Private secondary professional school in Poprad that is actually realization of the vision of two high school teachers on how education might look like at high school. Based on the inclusion of Private secondary professional school into the school system and the subsequent approval of the experimental verification of branches of study the founder began to build a school, which is based on two main priorities - high quality educational process and modern hardware and software. The school where students have their own laptops, use electronic books along with an educational portal, do test and homework via the internet and where parents can check the results by means of the electronic register of students´ grades. The school which offers their students new perspective branches of study tailor-made according to the current and future requirements of the market, i.e. without the school subjects that are not relevant anymore, and with an ongoing innovative curriculum; the school with enthusiastic highly qualified teachers using new methods and forms of teaching including modern technique. The school that partners with the university sector to ensure the follow-up study of the graduates provides video conferencing for specialized subjects and conversational courses with schools abroad. Private secondary professional school, Ul.29.augusta 4812 in Poprad, officially began on 01.09.2008, the founder of which is Tatranská Akadémia.
  • Keywords
    Internet; computer aided instruction; educational courses; educational institutions; electronic publishing; portals; teaching; teleconferencing; video communication; Internet; Poprad; Tatranská Akadémia; conversational course; educational portal; electronic books; high quality educational process; high school teachers; modern hardware; modern software; private secondary professional school; school system; student grade electronic register; teaching; video conferencing; Computer networks; Educational institutions; Graphics; Motion pictures; Portable computers; Software;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Emerging eLearning Technologies & Applications (ICETA), 2012 IEEE 10th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Stara Lesna
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-5120-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICETA.2012.6418322
  • Filename
    6418322