Date the event: 26-27 November 2025
Venue: Zagreb, Croatia
Local organisers: Danijela Ille, senior advisor for EFL, and Izabela Potnar Mijić, senior advisor for English and German as foreign languages, Croatia
ECML experts: Barbara Sawicka (Poland) and Magdalini Liontou (Finland)
Participants: 29 senior advisors for English and German as foreign languages, regional leaders (secondary schools), teachers in secondary schools where mediation is an element of assessment
Teaching mediation is an important part of the foreign language curriculum in the Republic of Croatia. Languages which are taught as the first foreign language in grammar schools (and some vocational schools) have language mediation as an element of assessment. Therefore, it is important for teachers to feel confident in teaching mediation. They should also be able to select and apply a range of activities, methods, and forms of work in order to ensure that assessment results are as valid and meaningful as possible. The Training and consultancy event entitled “The CEFR Companion Volume: Mediation and other key concepts” offers a wide range of examples and incentives that teachers can immediately apply in practice. It also provides a platform for exchanging ideas and supporting teachers in teaching mediation. After this professional training, teachers gained confidence in conducting mediation activities in the classroom and learned about different applicable types of monitoring and evaluation.
Izabela Potnar Mijić, Education and teacher training agency
Croatian version
ZEROJ
Jezično posredovanje i drugi ključni koncepti
Poučavanje medijacije važan je dio kurikuluma za strane jezike u Republici Hrvatskoj. Jezici koje se poučavaju kao prvi strani jezik u gimnazijama i ponekim strukovnim školama imaju jezično posredovanje kao element ocjenjivanja. Zato je važno da nastavnici steknu sigurnost u poučavanju medijacije, mogu odabrati i primijeniti različite aktivnosti, metode i oblike rada kako bi rezultati vrednovanja bili što relevantniji. Stručno usavršavanje pod nazivom The CEFR Companion Volume: Mediation and other key concepts (ZEROJ Jezično posredovanje i drugi ključni koncepti nudi široki spektar primjera i poticaja koje nastavnici mogu odmah primijeniti u praksi, ali i platformu na kojoj se mogu izmjenjivati ideje i pružiti podrška nastavnicima u poučavanju medijacije. Nakon ovoga stručnog usavršavanja nastavnici su stekli sigurnost u provođenju aktivnosti medijacije u učionici i upoznali različite primjenjive vrste praćenja i vrednovanja.
Izabela Potnar Mijić, Education and teacher training agency