This presentation was presented during 1st Short Term Joint Staff Training of Erasmus+ project My Work is My Future in Bytom, Poland - November 2015

1. Educational system in the
Republic of Croatia

2. 6 levels
 1. pre-school education
 2. elementary school
 3. secondary school
 4. high school
 5. colleges/universities
 6. master programs

3. Pre-school education
 Civil, religious and private
 Children with special needs –
regular program or special program
 special educational group of ordinary
kindergarten or special institution
 Advantage!

4. Elementary school
 Compulsory for all children – 8 years
 Programs:
◦ Regular
◦ Alternative (Montessori and Waldorf)
◦ International
◦ Special ( children with special needs)
support

5. Types of support
 Professional support
 Software(???) support
 Pedagogic-didactic adjustment
 Assistant in teaching when necessary

6. Programs for children with
special needs
 1. the regular program with
individualized procedures
 2. the regular program with content
customisation and individualized
procedures
 3. special programs with
individualized procedures
 4. special programs for the
aquisition of competences in the
activities of daily life and work with
individualized procedures

7. Programs for children with
special needs
 1. i 2. – each school in the regular
class
 3. special class of regular school and
in special institution ( our school!)
 4. from 6 to 21 years of age (our
school!)

8. Secondary school
 Students with special needs –
professional orientation – 5 proposed
programs
 Special institution – our school! – enough
experts emotional problems,
ADHD, behaviour disorders, addictions
and diseases within families…
 Students with special needs in regular
secondary school – expert support! –
insuficient!!!

9. Special institution/secondary
school
 Supported employment monitoring
service for youngsters with intellectual
disabilities – the only service of this kind in
Croatia
 Obligation for giving support and help to
all students three years after the end of
school
 Goals: finding a job, adaptation to work
environment, sensitization of
employers…

10. Colleges / Universities
 A rise in the number of students with
special needs in colleges in recent
years
 Office for students with special needs
– Zagreb and Rijeka – help and
support

11. Conclusion:
 Educational inclusion – from 1980.
 Problems – inclusion of
pupils/students with learning
disabilities and lower intellectual
functioning and behavioral problems
Financial, material and human
resources
◦ Number of children in the class
◦ No organized, systematic training of
teachers, parents and peers of children