Bibliography

• The importance of the social and emotional competencies of educational staff

  The teacher’s social and emotional competencies are linked to healthy student-teacher relationships which, in turn, create better student social, emotional and academic outcomes, including lower levels of ESL. Such competencies of the teacher can be acquired in pre-service or in-service teacher education.

  Keywords : early school leaving  relational competence  teachers 
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11 February 2015, by Maša Vidmar

• Overview of innovative online trainings for educators

  The professional development of educators for addressing ESL can be successfully supported by online trainings or other forms based on information and communications technology. Currently, several online training platforms for educators exist across Europe and globally, but evaluation studies are lacking to help highlight best practices in the field.

  Keywords : online training platforms  professional development  reflection 
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11 February 2015, by Tina Vršnik Perše

• The relationship between teachers’ teaching styles, students’ engagement in school and ESL

  A teacher’s teaching style (authoritative, authoritarian and permissive) affects students’ experience in school. It can provoke functional or non-functional perceptions of learning, self-efficacy and schoolwork, thus an appropriate teaching style can help prevent early school leaving.

  Keywords : early school leaving  school engagement  self-determination  teacher-student relationship  teaching style 
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23 July 2015, by Tina Rutar Leban