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Full-day educational work: Organisation of student - oriented activities

Full-day educational work is organised as the students’ eight-hour stay at school, during which the process of integrated teaching and learning complements the quality of students’ organised free time by involving them in projects and extracurricular activities. The paper presents an example of good practice in the implementation of full-day educational work with student-oriented teaching activities in Nikola Tesla Elementary School in Rijeka, Croatia. Through focus groups with female class teachers, we examined their opinions on the possibilities that full-day educational work provides in planning and implementing student-oriented activities and recorded their observed shortcomings and challenges for improving the quality of work in full-day educational work. The obtained results indicate that full-day educational work provides more time dedicated to the student and their individual characteristics, integrated learning, and project teaching. Particularly emphasised is the importance of students’ inclusion in organised free-time activities through field classes, extracurricular teaching, and extracurricular activities in various educational areas of the curriculum. Satisfaction with the organisation and the specifics of full-day educational work is also indicated by the results of a survey questionnaire, which examined the attitudes of the parents (N= 235) of the students involved. The parents expressed their satisfaction with all organisational aspects of work, and a high percentage of them underscored they would recommend to other parents that they enrol their children in full-day educational work.

full-day educational work ; free time ; students ; teachers ; parents

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