This document summarizes activities at Miroslavas Secondary School in Lithuania that promote democratic values. The school has 420 students and is over 224 years old. It holds democratic elections for student president and class councils. Students help determine rules and participate in school governance. They organize talent shows and work with their elected student council on issues. The school aims to give students choice and participation in their learning through flexible, individually tailored programs.

1. PROJECT
EUROPE AT SCHOOL
INTERNET AWARD SCHEME
DEMOCRATIC AT SCHOOL

2. THIS IS OUR MIROSLAVAS
SECONDARY SCHOOL, ALYTUS,
LITHUANIA
OUR SCHOOL IS VERY OLD.IT IS
224 YEAR .
THERE ARE 420
SCHOOLCHILDRENS.

3. SCHOOL ADDRESS
LITHUANIA
ALYTUS REG.
MIROSLAVAS
TEL.: 66 380
FAX.: 8 315 66438
E-MAIL.:
miroslavovm@delfi.lt
miroslavovm@delfi.lt

4. IT IS OUR SCHOOL DIRECTOR

5. WHAT IS DEMOCRATIC?
The Education for Democratic Citizenship
includes all practices and activities
designed to help young
people and adults participate actively in
democratic life by accepting and
exercising their rights and
responsibilities society.

6. DEMOCRACY
BEGINS AT SCHOOL

7. Our schools aim to promote the democratic
values of egalitarianism, tolerance,
pluralism, freedom, social and environmental
responsibility, by modeling and living these
values in the classroom in a democratic
school, each child is given as much control as
is feasible over his or her learning journey.
self-
Compulsion is replaced by self-
determination, obedience by responsibility.

8. Within certain limits, children self-regulate the
self-
schedule of their learning and have a significant
pre-
voice in the choice of subject matter. In pre-
school, for instance, a number of activities are
simultaneously available at different work areas.
Children move independently from one activity to
another, remaining longest with what most
arouses their fascination – although group
activity is encouraged. What fuels each child’s
progress is therefore not the teacher’s pressure,
but his own natural interest, her thirst for
discovery and mastery.

9. A fundamental principle is that children
are more motivated to learn, and they
learn better, to the extent that they have
choice over how and what they
learnDemocratic processes in the
classrooms include voting, council
meetings and the forming of committees.
Debate and questioning are encouraged,
in order to foster critical thinking.

10. The teacher-student relationship is unusually
teacher-
non-
equal and non-authoritarian. Referred to by
first-
their first-names, teachers are viewed by
pupils as older and knowledgable friends
and guides. They are respected as partners in
a collaborative education process. They are
there to help, to inspire and to provide
learning tools and opportunities rather than
to direct or dictate.

11. This dialogical relationship gives children more
room to grow into self-motivated and self-
self- self-
responsible individuals. They work in
pursuit of their own goals, rather than to
please someone in authorityLearning
processes in democratic schools are specially
adaptive to each child’s unique learning
style.

12. Learning programmes are individually
tailored, to suit even the more
idiosyncratic minds. This flexibility and
responsiveness to the individual enables
every child to feel recognised and valued.
It is not unusual to see children all
working on something different

13. COUNCIL AT
SCHOOL –
it is democratic at
school community

14. The first our school’s steps are:
1. Our school’s president
election. Our students
elect president for their
choosen student. At our
school president is
Karolina Marcinkute
Student vote and also
Karolina is a president
now.

15. 2. Our class chairmen activity.
3. Our class schoolchildren’s rules
creation and realization.
4.Our schoolchildren’s council make 12
students from 7-12 classes.This council
7-
gathered also every week, then we
decided works of that week, we made
plan.

16. 5. The basic activity courses:
1.Schoolchildren and teachers communication
problems decision.
2.Involvement in our town and in republic
organization projects.
Our 8b class students organized “ Show of tallents”
students were vallued for your appearances.
Students and teachers is tryied follow childrens and
teachers lows and duties. We opinion can mean
free.We always have questionnaire, in which we
say our opinion, wishes.We decided and different
problems. We always go to our deputy she is very
resourceful and helt to us.

17. After is cluster „Library““ in
cluster we put books dominate
about democracy go in different
trip.
Go to other school where is
„Library“ clusters and there we
meet with other cluster members

18. AT LIBRARY

19. AFTER LESSONS

20. „SHOW OF TALLENTS“

21. Our school is very good,
Authorize newspaper
„IR NE TIK“
in newspaper present
information all children in
our school
often we celebrate
different festival and our
school is very very good
and fine because in my
school
are democracy.

22. Election for class council
Twice a week we have a class hour and
when we do various businesses. So
when we elect class council, we can all
vote. We do that after lessons with
class teacher. In our school every class
has its council. All elections in our class
are honest.

23. OUR MIROSLAVAS
SCHOOL TEAM NO 261

24. KRISTINA AKSIONOVA.
AT THIS PROJECT TAKE JUSTINA NEDZINSKAITE.
PART SCHOOLCHILDRENS EVELINA PELECKAITE.
TEAM NO 261 FROM VIKTORIJA
MIROSLAVAS SECONDARY URBONAVICIUTE.
SCHOOL, LITHUANIA LAURYNAS BUCEVICIUS.
POVILAS KUNCEVICIUS.
EGLE KAZLAUSKAITE
ZILVINAS KAZLAUSKAS.
JOLITA RIBINSKAITE.
AGNE URBONAVICIUTE.

25. HELP ENGLISH TEACHERS:
DEIMANTE VILMA
MILIAUSKAITE KARESKEVICIENE

26. AND INFORMATIC
TECHNOLOGY
TEACHER:
MARYTE
ZENKEVICIENE