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01_ToT - Volunteering_Intro_ Joana Santos

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Connect is an independent bi-monthly publication supporting active student participation in primary and secondary schools. It is a 'practice journal' that has been published in Australia since late 1979. It is published on-line and is freely available for download.

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Connect is an independent bi-monthly publication supporting active student participation in primary and secondary schools. It is a 'practice journal' that has been published in Australia since late 1979. It is published on-line and is freely available for download.

Connect covers areas and practices that are variously called 'student voice', 'student agency' and 'student participation'. It supports educational change and development through assisting students and teachers to document and share practices in which students have substantial decision-making and implementation roles in primary and secondary schools, around real and important issues. It includes stories from initiatives around Australia (and occasionally elsewhere), and develops and reviews resources.

Connect currently publishes six issues a year.

Issue 200 (April 2013) was the final print issue to be published. Connect is now published electronically and is freely available on-line from issue 201 in June 2013. The earlier issues have been added to this site as free downloads of PDFs. The most recent issue currently available is noted below as the Current Issue.

In 2020, the following issues have been published:

ISSN: 2202-4980

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Connect - supporting student participation | Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

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Connect is an independent bi-monthly publication supporting active student participation in primary and secondary schools. It is a 'practice journal' that has been published in Australia since late 1979. It is published on-line and is freely available for download. Connect covers areas and practices that are variously called 'student voice', 'student agency' and 'student participation'.

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Based on Estonian case (parental involvement, students voice and extracurricular activities)

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The English lessons that are part of the Access program - Microscholarship for better access to English language, supported by the U.S. Embassy in Skopje, are continuing online through digital educational platforms. 150 high school students from the towns of Skopje, Tetovo, Kumanovo, Gostivar and Kicevo are participating in interesting and productive digital activities for developing their personal skills and English language knowledge.

On May 4, 2020, during the joint online class where all the students from the Access program got together, they had a chance to meet the actor Driton Vejseli, well known as the character of Talat from the Macedonian famous TV show Prespav. The high school students heard about his passion toward the acting, what motivated him to become an actor, which one of his experiences is the best for him, what are his desires, with whom he would go on a deserted island, what type of superpower he would like to have etc. They all had fun asking him questions and discussing the answers.

Students' creativity was shown by the portraits that some of the students have drawn of the actor, and they presented them to him as a surprise. In order to make the online meeting funnier, Driton imitated a short scene from the TV show and he presented a photo from his childhood.

"Be yourselves no matter what. Don't allow others to affect your life and the way of thinking. When I was younger I tried to make myself happy first, and then the others", Driton told the students. Initiated by his sincere answers the students exchanged creative ideas about how they spend their time at home and explained how they find inspiration.

They are continuing with the activities through the digital tools and platforms through which they develop their skills for English language, discussing themes connected to the American culture and are starting their campaign for health protection during the global pandemic.
This activity is part of the English Access Microscholarship Program, supported by the United States Embassy in North Macedonia.

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Special guest on the joint students' online class of Access Program

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The English lessons that are part of the Access program - Microscholarship for better access to English language, supported by the U.S. Embassy in Skopje, are continuing online through digital educational platforms. 150 high school students from the towns of Skopje, Tetovo, Kumanovo, Gostivar and Kicevo are participating in interesting and productive digital activities for developing their personal skills and English language knowledge.

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Students that study in different languages of instruction and are from the project primary schools hung out together and participated in interesting digital activities as a part of the school clubs. These activities happen within the Strengthening Multi-ethnic Cooperation in Municipalities Project supported by Pestalozzi Children's Foundation.

Due to the crisis caused by COVID-19, numerous initiatives continue to be implemented through digital platforms and tools. Through a mutual collaboration, the students manage to make creative products and to research topics that interest them.

Within the „Blacksmiths of Learning" school club at the primary school „Panajot Ginovski" in Skopje, the students discussed about the technique of embroidery and presented their works. They embroidered each letter of the message „#STAY HOME!" on a piece of cloth in order to raise awareness of health protection and preventing the spread of the virus. Also, the students talked about possible upcoming activities and decided to make an electronic newspaper with all of their works so far.

The students from the primary school „Marsal Tito" in Strumica, continued implementing activities within the school clubs, as well. The members of the „Young Researchers" school club, on their initiative, organized a humanitarian activity that included crafting 100 protective masks from old clothes that were in good shape, meant for older people or for those that aren't able to get them.

In the past period, multiple activities were implemented by students from the primary school „Marsal Tito" in v. Murtino as a part of the „Young Physicians" school club. One of them was making an electromagnet through a safe home experiment that didn't involve electricity. The students made around a hundred windings from a weak copper wire on a piece of soft steel. Then, they connected the ends of the wire to the battery's poles. After the electromagnet was finished, on the digital communication platforms they talked with their teachers about the ways it operates and its implementation in everyday life.

These activities that are implemented within the school clubs encourage young people to take on interesting initiatives and give them an opportunity to have fun together while they are at home and learn in the spirit of interethnic integration.
This activity is part of the Strengthening Multi-ethnic Cooperation in Municipalities Project, supported by the Pestalozzi Children's Foundation (PCF).

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Interesting digital activities as a part of the joint school clubs for interethnic integration in schools

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Students that study in different languages of instruction and are from the project primary schools hung out together and participated in interesting digital activities as a part of the school clubs. These activities happen within the Strengthening Multi-ethnic Cooperation in Municipalities Project supported by Pestalozzi Children's Foundation.

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The crisis didn't stop joint classes from happening in the secondary schools in the City of Skopje. Secondary school students from ASUC "Boro Petrushevski", SUGS "Dimitar Vlahov" and SGGUGS "Zdravko Cvetkovski", which study in different languages of instruction, continued their joint activities through digital platforms together with their teachers. These classes are a great opportunity for youth from different ethnic backgrounds to collaborate and hang out while learning about different subjects.

The students worked on various interesting activities. Pairs of teachers from ASUC "Boro Petrushevski" adapted the curriculum to digital tools, showing their students how to utilize them. So, technical drawing with the software CAD (Computer-Aided Design) for the machine and traffic group became even more interesting and all students joined and made the drawings at the same time. During another joint class in the English language, they enriched their vocabulary and wrote essays on healthy food and professional occupations, which they then shared with their teachers and analyzed through digital communication platforms.

How to do pedicure the right way? During the Practical classes meant for the department of hand and foot care estheticians and Practical classes for cosmetics technicians, the students from SUGS "Dimitar Vlahov" revised what they have learned on the two languages of instruction and discussed about pedicure and feet massages with their teachers.

Even though sports games have been postponed due to the COVID-19 crisis, the students watched short clips from the League of Champions finale in 2019 together during the class in Sport and sports activities. They analyzed the statistics and factors that led to one team winning and the other losing the game while hanging out and learning more new words in the two languages of instruction.

Although the subjects in which joint curricular classes are organized in SGGUGS "Zdravko Cvetkovski" incorporate more fieldwork, the pairs of teachers that teach Practical classes in the department of architecture managed to find a few interesting ways for implementing the joint classes at a distance. They communicated with the students from both groups online and with the help of social media and digital communication platforms assigned tasks that the students solved together and presented in front of their teachers.

The new ways for distance learning kept bringing youth that studies in different languages of instruction together and deepening their mutual collaboration.
This activity is part of the Youth Ethnic Integration Project, supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This article is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of MCEC and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) or the United States Government.

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Secondary school students from "Boro Petrushevski", "Dimitar Vlahov" and "Zdravko Cvetkovski" from the City of Skopje participated in joint classes through distance learning

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The crisis didn't stop joint classes from happening in the secondary schools in the City of Skopje. Secondary school students from ASUC "Boro Petrushevski", SUGS "Dimitar Vlahov" and SGGUGS "Zdravko Cvetkovski", which study in different languages of instruction, continued their joint activities through digital platforms together with their teachers.

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5. Games for Introduction - Integration of Children and Youth

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Students from Butel celebrated the International Peace Day

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Младински акции во Град Скопје

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Turn walls of separation into bridges of integration

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Recommended reading: 'Voice' is not enough! by Lundy (2006)

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Recommended reading: 'Voice' is not enough! by Lundy (2006)