MOTTO "Bring the child closer to science and let him answer by himself. Let him base what he knows not on what you have told him, but on what he has understood. Let him not merely learn science, but think it. Let us keep his curiosity alive and create the conditions that bring him closer to the world of science. Let us encourage the child to observe, to investigate and to discover." — J. J. Rousseau Abstract In contemporary education, active and student-centered learning stra

Image generated with AI Reading in a foreign language is often treated as a quiet, solitary skill: students read a text, answer comprehension questions, check the answers, and move on. Early in my teaching career, I followed this pattern too. Over time, however, my classroom experience — especially through international projects, Erasmus mobilities, and daily work with secondary school students — showed me that reading can be one of the most crea

Author's Bio Jelena Kovačević is an English teacher, promoted into teacher excellent advisor  at Ekonomska škola Požega, Croatia. She has coordinated multiple international projects promoting intercultural learning, digital literacy, and global citizenship. Jelena is a five-time consecutive recipient of the Most Successful Teachers Award  by the Croatian Ministry of Education and an alumna of the SUSI for Secondary Educators  program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State