Croatian Association for Reality Therapy CART

Glasser Quality School is one of the programmes of the new WGI organisation William Glasser International.

Licenced WGI faculty discuss the possibilities of creating a joint model of training and developping a Glasser Quality School (GQS).

Until today, teachers around the World interested in GQS

have been trained differently.

During last 25 years in Croatia many members ofCART have broadcasted the GQS ideas.

Thanks to all of them, since 2006, in Croatiathere are FIRST TWO GLASSER QUALITYSCHOOLS IN EUROPE.

This is an overview of the Programme carried by12 CART members since 1990.

Jagoda Tonšić-Krema, prof.

QUALITY SCHOOL CROATIA

Our vision is to create a school in whichcuriosity, fun and joy are a mental set-up,

and the basic goals are

good interpersonal relationships, andeducational success for everyone.

PROGRAMME FOUNDATIONS:

• CHOICE THEORY PSYCHOLOGY

• (dr. William Glasser’s Choice Theory®)

• LEAD MANAGEMENT

• TEACHING BASED ON THE NEW BRAIN RESEARCH FINDINGS (Brain-Friendly Classroom)

138 hours of professional development

FUNDAMENTAL BELIEFS

• Man is a free, internally motivated being, choosing his/her behaviours constantly and responsible for his/her choices

• Individual mental health is directly dependent on the quality of relationships with other people, and on the experience of closeness and connectedness with them

• Teaching and learning as modes of human relationships should be embroidered by experiences of freedom, belonging and fun, and should result in each individual’s success

• Educational institutions should be lead in the way that by cooperation processes connect the ideas od individual’s personal growth with the institution’s development vision

www.wglasseriternational.org

"I do not want to be remembered as the person

who brought discipline to the classroom. I want to

be remembered as the person who helped the

classroom become a place where you do not need

discipline.”

Dr. William Glasser

QUALITY SCHOOL CROATIA

Our mission is inspiring, inovative and coherent teaching of Choice Theory Psychology

consolidating

Quality School and Lead Management

in ways to

connect individuals and organizations

and encouraging them to improve quality

in their personal and professional life.

How We Learn

10% of what we READ

20% of what we HEAR

30% of what we SEE

50% of what we SEE and HEAR

70% of what is DISCUSSED with OTHERS

80% of what is EXPERIENCED PERSONALLY

95% of what we TEACH TO SOMEONE ELSE

William Glasser

http://members.shaw.ca/priscillatheroux/Glasser.htm

GLASSER QUALITY SCHOOL IN CROATIA

Dr. William Glasser with The Croatian GQS Project Team, 2006

The initial Project has resulted in a successful, elaborated Programme

tested in practice with 225 schools and over 3250 Croatian teachers

Program QUALITY SCHOOL IN CROATIA

• Seminars CHOICE THEORY IN THE SCHOOL:

A PATH TO A QUALITY SCHOOL– SCHOOL WITHOUT COERCION

Authors from Rijeka, Croatia

Anton-Toni Štemberger Jagoda Tonšić-Krema Milivoj Vrabec

• Croatian International conferences of educational workers who apply Dr. Glasser's Quality School ideas

• Participation of the Croatian schools in Internationalconferences abroad (Europe, USA)

• Researches Rijeka, Zagreb (Croatia), Maribor (Slovenia)

3 different methodologies

Global Goals of the Programme

• Development of the communication skills oriented to mutual,quality satisfying basic needs

• Development of teaching skills emphasizing the interactivemethodical procedures

• Creating the learning environments based on the brain research

• Development of the system and skills of cooperative evaluationand self-evaluation

• Development of the lead management skills in leading classroomsand the school

• Development of the vision of continuous improvement of teachingefficiency

• Development of the school identity based on active cooperation

Concepts Used During Workshops

• Student-Centered Teaching

• Brain-Based Learning

• Brain-Friendly Classroom

• Learning Styles

• Multiple Intelligences

• Bloom's Taxonomy

Phase I. – An Individual Phase

3 seminars

1. The Inner Classroom Strength(CULTURE OF FRIENDSHIP)

2. „Team – Cooperative Learning”(CULTURE OF COOPERATION)

3. "Self-evaluation"

(CULTURE OF SELF-EVALUATION)

Phase II. – A System Phase

3 seminars

4. "Lead Management"

(CULTURE OF SELF-ESTEEM)

5. "A Choice Theory® Community"

(CULTURE OF COMMUNITY

RESPONSIBILITY)

6. "Vision and Mission"

(CULTURE OF CREATIVITY)

Phase III. – A Phase of Cooperative

2 seminars Evaluation

7. "Every student can succeed"

(CULTURE OF SUCCESS)

8. "Every school can succeed"

(CULTURE OF CONTINUOUS SUPPORT)

Phase IV. – A Phase of Process

Supervision

Number and duration of the meetings are negotiable

Active monitoring of the school development

ORGANISATION OF THE SEMINARS AND

OBLIGATIONS FOR PARTICIPANTS AND SCHOOLS

3 seminars that last 48 school hours each Phase

Phase II. Requirement :

The School Principal and at least 51% of theteachers must enter the Programme in thisPhase

Phase I. & Phase II.

Implementing new knowledge inside the classroom andthe school

Short presentation of the implemented at each seminar

Making a personal portfolio with examples during thefirst Phase and a group portfolio with examples duringthe second Phase

Applying the project evaluation questionnaires

Phase I. & Phase II.

PARTICIPANTS’ OBLIGATIONS

After finishing each Phase, the participants receive a

certificate for 48 hours of professional development

2 seminars that last 32 school hours

Cooperating with the school the project team

negotiates specific and directed issues that the school

as a system come closer to its vision of the Glasser

Quality School.

SCHOOL’S OBLIGATIONS

Publishing a review (web) that shows the total

implementation of the Project at the school level

After finishing this Phase, the participants receive a

certificate for 32 hours of professional development

Phase III.

RESEARCH – 3 DIFFERENT METHODOLOGIES, 3 DIFFERENT EXPERIMENTAL AND CONTROL POPULATIONS

• Dr. Branka Čagran, University of Maribor, Slovenia

• The evaluation of the results of 4 years of implementing the QS Programme in the Elementary School Janka Glazerja Ruše. In the experimental group higher results in the fields of positive emotions and the motivation to learn, better discipline and selfesteem, the school has more opened to cooperation with the environment.

• Dr. Svjetlana Kolić-Vehovec, University of Rijeka, Croatia

• Participants were 95 third-grade students, 168 fifth-grade students and 145 eight-grade students. Fifth-grade students in experimental group showed higher self-esteem and intrinsic motivation, and lower test anxiety than students in control group. Eight-grade students in experimental group showed higher self-esteem and independence that control group. Experimental group from third- to eight-grade showed more positive attitude toward school than control group.

• Dr. Josipa Bašić, BWI, University of Zagreb, Croatia

• The data collected with Beck's quality school survey in 10 high schools across the Republic of Croatia (N=980). The schools that are working by the principles of quality school have perception of better satisfaction of need for fun and power in relation to peers and they are feeling safer in peer's company then the students from schools that don't implement the principles of quality school in their work.

dr. William Glasser visiting Osnovna škola Milan BrozovićKastav, Croatia, 2006.

Inauguration of the first elementary

GLASSER QUALITY SCHOOL in Europe

dr. William Glasser visiting Gimnazija i strukovna škola Jurja Dobrile

Pazin, Croatia 2006.

November 27, 2006 the school raised its flag as

the first high GLASSER QUALITY SCHOOL in Europe

International Conference of Educational Workers who applyDr. Glasser's Quality School Ideas in Croatia, Rijeka 2006.

DR. WILLIAM GLASSER MEETS THE CROATIAN SCHOOLS' PRINCIPALS,

in front of the Conference Audience

After The Round table "Can We Help Each School To Succeed?"

DUBROVNIK 2007.Parents & Educational Institutions Partnership

15 years of The Quality School in Broader Dubrovnik Area

• In the Dubrovnik area during

the previous school year

there were:

• 3 schools realizing the III.

Phase of the GQS Programme

Croatia

• 2 schools realizing the II.

Phase of the Programme

• 8 schools concluded the II.

Phase of the Programme

International Conference

PAZIN KVAŠ '09, SCHOOL AS A JOYFULL PLACE110. aniversary of Croatian Gymnasium in Pazin, Croatia

Invited speaker Irish psychologist BRIAN LENNON,

later the first Chairman of the Global Organization

William Glasser International (WGI)

Brian Lennon with the members of the

Project team GQS Croatia, International Conference of the Schools that Apply dr. Glasser’s

GQS Ideas PAZIN KVAŠ '09, SCHOOL AS A JOYFUL PLACE

Odusseús wandered for years – we have also been finding our pathways.

The foundations are laid, our Odyssey continues.

Today’s World Organization

William Glasser International

is preparing a shared training and development of a Glasser Quality School model

JOIN US!

”Glasserians” at the International Conference

Ri-kvaš 21 –

An Odissey in Education2000, in Rijeka, Croatia