School history/Istorijat škole
Elementary school 'Aca Sinadinovic' Loćika was founded in 1919 as a lower primary school and later became a full primary school. During the Second World War the school worked in very hard conditions.
After the war the school in Loćika became lower high school and students who attended classes came from Moravac, Lužane, Nozrina, Tešica, Grejač, Dašnica, Veliki Drenovac and the entire Turija region (the area along the river Turia) . The school at one time had a boarding accommodation. It became a school that it is today in 1968 when the school was joined by the schools in Grejač and Kulina. In 1985 the department in Tešica got its own building for eight grades. The school bears the name of the famous WWII soldier Aleksandar - Aca Sinadinović, who was killed near Loćika in a battle during the Second World War. Until 1968, when the surrounding schools were integrated into the one that it is today, all of them had their own name: Grejač - 'Branko Radičević', Tešica - 'Tihomir Djordjevic', and Kulina 'Dragisa Petrovic - Đido'. The oldest school in these parts was the school in Tešica - established in 1842, the school in Vrćenovica was founded in 1889, and in Grejač in 1895. By the decreet the school in Loćika covers the following villages: Veliki Drenovac, Grejač, Dašnica, Banokvac, Tešica, Golešnica, Koprivnica, Mali Drenovac, Loćika, Vrćenovica, Česta, Šurić, Čukurovac, Kulina, Ljupten, Vukanja and Porodin. |
Osnovna škola 'Aca Sinadinović' Loćika osnovana je 1919. godine kao niža osnovna škola da bi kasnije postala potpuna osnovna škola. Za vreme rata od 1941. do 1945. godine škola je radila u teškim uskovima.
Posle rata škola u Loćiki postaje niža gimnazija gde nastavu pohađaju učenici iz Moravca, Lužana, Nozrine, Tešice, Grejača, Dašnice, Velikog Drenovca i celog Turijskog kraja (područje uz reku Turiiju). U školi je jedno vreme bilo i internatskog smeštaja. Potpuna, to jest matična škola postaje 1968. godine kada su joj pripojene škole u Grejaču i Kulini, a 1985. godine i odeljenje u Tešici postaje izdvojeno osmorazdeno odeljenje ove škole. Škola nosi naziv poznatog borca Aleksandra - Ace Sinadinovića, SKOJ-evca, koji je poginuo nedaleko od Loćike u borbi u Drugom svetskom ratu. Do 1968. godine kada je izvršena integracija svih škola svaka od škola je nosila posebno ime: Grejač - 'Branko Radičević', Tešica - 'Tihomir Djordjević', i Kulina 'Dragiša Petrović - Djido. Integracijom ove škole postaju izdvojena izdvojena odeljenja matične škole 'Aca Sinadinović'. Najstarija škola u kraju je škola u Tešici, osnovana 1842. godine, škola u Vrćenovici počela je sa radom 1889. godine i u Grejaču 1895. godine. Odlukom CO Aleksinac područje škole u Loćiki, zahvataju sledeća naselja: Veliki Drenovac, Grejač, Dašnica, Banovac, Tešica, Golešnica, Koprivnica, Mali drenovac, Loćika, Vrćenovica, Česta, Šurić, Čukurovac, Kulina, Ljupten Vukanja i Porodin. |
About the page/O stranici
We are living in the age where students spend more time on the Internet than doing anything else. They spend most of their time surfing the web is search of social interaction, entertainment and knowledge. Conventional teaching methods, course books, and textbooks can no longer inspire them to learn something new as students have done in the past. Since times are changing so must we – the teachers.
In order to keep up with our students we must learn how to use and utilize new technologies as well. Teachers who are not able to do so are regarded, by the students, as old-fashioned, uninteresting ("boring") and people from whom they cannot learn anything new or useful. As much as that is generally not true, to some extent it is. Today's students can teach us, their teachers, more than their teachers can teach them. If you don't agree with me then try this out in your classroom: find a student who spends most of his time playing computer games online with his friends, find out what game he is playing, give him a vocabulary test with the discourse from the game and you will see that he will know and understand more words and expressions than you. I am sure that every English teacher has come across a student like this at least once in their career. If you haven't, then you are the lucky one. How many of you who work as ESL teachers have tried to explain to your students that writing an essay in your mother tongue and translating it with the help of "Google Translate", or similar tools, is not the same as "writing an essay in English"? How many times have your students brought you a copy/past book report from "SparkNotes" or "Wikipedia"? Another thing which we all come across is when our students say that they had forgotten to write their homework, study for the test/exam/written task, etc. because they did not hear us in class when we announced it.
So what can we do to prevent this? New times demand new courses of action. Unless a World War Three breaks out, and the Internet disappears from the face of the planet, students will not go back to the "old ways" of learning. The truth is that most teachers are afraid of change. They are afraid to change their ways and evolve with their students and the rest of the world. It is also true that the Internet, computer games and smartphones have diminished our students' attention span. All new research results have shown that an average student can concentrate up to seven minutes on one task. So how do you imagine to keep their attention for 45 minutes with just a frontal teaching approach, or traditional grammar drills, translation tasks, etc.? Eventually, after some time, students would stop paying attention, they would start talking, taking pictures, making videos, chatting with their friends and soon all hell breaks loose. Nobody likes when this happens; nobody likes to play the role of a policeman, investigator or a judge in class, although it is sometimes necessary.
Not only teachers have to deal with issues like this. Students' parents face the same challenges; on top of which they do not have enough time to pay as much attention to their children as they would like to, due to their busy schedules and work-related issues. More and more parents are skipping teacher-parent meetings and have less and less time to see what their children are doing or learning at school. What they do have is some spare time, 10 minutes a day at least, to browse the Internet.
I ask again, what can we do to make our students, and their parents, pay more attention, and be more aware? The answer is to use the Internet to our advantage, and as our new means of communication with our students and their parents. That is the reason why I have decided to make this website. I decided to make it so I could help my students achieve goals that have been put in front of them by the school system and themselves; to introduce their parents with what their children have learnt and created at school, and give both parties information needed in order to become more productive and reliable.
Vladimir Mitić
In order to keep up with our students we must learn how to use and utilize new technologies as well. Teachers who are not able to do so are regarded, by the students, as old-fashioned, uninteresting ("boring") and people from whom they cannot learn anything new or useful. As much as that is generally not true, to some extent it is. Today's students can teach us, their teachers, more than their teachers can teach them. If you don't agree with me then try this out in your classroom: find a student who spends most of his time playing computer games online with his friends, find out what game he is playing, give him a vocabulary test with the discourse from the game and you will see that he will know and understand more words and expressions than you. I am sure that every English teacher has come across a student like this at least once in their career. If you haven't, then you are the lucky one. How many of you who work as ESL teachers have tried to explain to your students that writing an essay in your mother tongue and translating it with the help of "Google Translate", or similar tools, is not the same as "writing an essay in English"? How many times have your students brought you a copy/past book report from "SparkNotes" or "Wikipedia"? Another thing which we all come across is when our students say that they had forgotten to write their homework, study for the test/exam/written task, etc. because they did not hear us in class when we announced it.
So what can we do to prevent this? New times demand new courses of action. Unless a World War Three breaks out, and the Internet disappears from the face of the planet, students will not go back to the "old ways" of learning. The truth is that most teachers are afraid of change. They are afraid to change their ways and evolve with their students and the rest of the world. It is also true that the Internet, computer games and smartphones have diminished our students' attention span. All new research results have shown that an average student can concentrate up to seven minutes on one task. So how do you imagine to keep their attention for 45 minutes with just a frontal teaching approach, or traditional grammar drills, translation tasks, etc.? Eventually, after some time, students would stop paying attention, they would start talking, taking pictures, making videos, chatting with their friends and soon all hell breaks loose. Nobody likes when this happens; nobody likes to play the role of a policeman, investigator or a judge in class, although it is sometimes necessary.
Not only teachers have to deal with issues like this. Students' parents face the same challenges; on top of which they do not have enough time to pay as much attention to their children as they would like to, due to their busy schedules and work-related issues. More and more parents are skipping teacher-parent meetings and have less and less time to see what their children are doing or learning at school. What they do have is some spare time, 10 minutes a day at least, to browse the Internet.
I ask again, what can we do to make our students, and their parents, pay more attention, and be more aware? The answer is to use the Internet to our advantage, and as our new means of communication with our students and their parents. That is the reason why I have decided to make this website. I decided to make it so I could help my students achieve goals that have been put in front of them by the school system and themselves; to introduce their parents with what their children have learnt and created at school, and give both parties information needed in order to become more productive and reliable.
Vladimir Mitić
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