THE SMILEYS Team Leader: Stefan Alievikj Team members: Ana Mihajloska, Jana Lazarevska Country: Macedonia

Our dream job

The root of the idea is DJI or the Dream Job Instructor Who’s the Dream Job Instructor? * It’s us! The instructors who will implement innovation in the existing educational environment by merging the educational sphere with the business sphere EDUCATION + ENVIRONMENT social, business & natural * Primary schools  observing, playground, sustainability * High schools  imagine, dream, research * Universities  THINK, DO, EXPRESS

As Dream Job Instructors: 1. Implement new courses in schools through combining the educational and social aspects of the students’ development 2. Bring refreshment in the in the already existing curriculum and shift the educational paradigm 3. Allow students and pupils to express themselves through their preferred media 4. Allow them to do research and gain experience by being involved in a variety of social spheres or industrial branches 5. Allow them to better understand the aspects of different environments by direct participation 6. Support students to nurture their individual talents

BLOGGING Why is blogging important? One of the important roles of the DJI will be to upload the students’ researches and works on a blog or a relevant internet platform in order to construct a quantum of knowledge and information which can be accessible to everyone. * This should encourage the students to continue expressing themselves. To give them a sense that their efforts were not in vain and that they are actually doing something significant for themselves and their future. Their voice is heard

BENEFITS 1. Help students to locate their preferred field of interest 2. Students will develop a sense of real-life work (by being part of internships/practice* see more in the ‘education section’ 3. Future employers or companies who are to support these practices will have the opportunity to observe their interns/apprentices; mark their work; provide them with training. This will result in cutting expenses for training new staff 4. It will challenge us continually and we will learn as much as our students 5. We will educate young people and make the world a better place 6. Forms like CV/motivation letters will be of secondary meaning, not primary.

Perfect Education towards Dream Jobs Stage I: Implementing the new programme under the command of DJI in Primary schools Tag words: observing, playground and sustainability Target group: kids enrolled in primary schools (age: 7 to 15) Possible activities: Nurturing information on sustainability through REUSE/REDO classes (crafting things out of materials for garbage) Going back to nature (visiting botanical gardens, zoos, museums, field trips in small research groups – 10 kids per group max) ‘re-creating nature’ (planting flowers, fruits, vegetables  gardening skills) Inclusion of playground learning systems (school hours where children from different ages can mingle together and exchange ideas among each other, out of the classroom Merging nature + technology in virtual classrooms (simulations of different environments) Skills gained: observation, gardening, green thinking, creativity, perception of reality Children are to write papers or prepare drawings reflecting their experience and their works will be published on the relevant school blogs

STAGE II: Now we are one level up! Tag words: Imagine, Dream, Research Target group: High school students (age: 15 to 18) and they are to lead their own education /DJIs are more like observers and instructors in this stage Possible activities: “Create reality, stimulate action” concept Innovation Jam Research on preferred topics (individually); priority topics: entrepreneurship, sustainability Imagine: Future & Compare-to-present Create and re-create (what buzzes them in reality should stimulate them to take actions) Freedom of expression and value of opinion AIM OF THE STAGE: We believe that this concept is a very positive approach to the development of successful dreamers who will craft a HEALTHY society

STAGE III: University & Tasting Jobs Tag words: THINK, DO, EXPRESS Target group: university students (age ) This final stage merges the educational sphere with the business/social one Possible tasks: Each semester (3 years of study = 6 tasks, 4 years of study = 8 tasks) students will be given different tasks through which they will engage in different activities Choice of certain topic for research, apart from regular university classes Chance for students to WORK or RATHER OBSERVE the working environment in a company related to the chosen topic of the student (results: broadening of knowledge, development of ideas; the employees will also have the chance to train new stuff or simply observe and collect ideas from employers Open space for expressing their way of perception of different working environments (from coffee shops to corporations) At the end of their engagements, students should submit research papers to their DJI who will furthermore elaborate the research

Benefits of stage III: By tasting different working environments, students should profoundly discover their own fields of interest, because as human beings we are not always aware for our cognitive capacity and inner interests Students are to receive software knowledge (gain skills for different jobs which will make them more competitive on the market). Students will value each job and will learn from each job. Imagine, if you as a student had the chance to work as an editor in a publishing house, a marketing intern in a company, a kinder-garden teacher, a salesman in a coffee shop, a manager of a taxi driver and an assistant in Ambulance? Interested? We bet such scenario could make all of us more humane, apart from all the gained experience on our pathways to our dream jobs! To mingle is to live!