Position:Head of Centre for Professional Development

Short CV: Brigita Žarkovič Adlešič has studied Pedagogy and English at Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. She worked as an English teacher and School counsellor since 1982. In 1995 she became the advisor of the National Education Institute of Slovenia, and since 1997 she is the head of Department for Professional Development of the National Education Institute of Slovenia. (www.zrss.si)

For eight years, she has been an active member of National Programme Council for in-service teacher training whose main responsibility is to provide the national policy. She is involved in research projects and in counselling activities. She has participated in numerous Slovenian and international projects and conferences, focusing on professional development, evaluation and mentoring. Her publications are dealing with classroom management, introducing change and mentoring. At the moment she works as a Head of Centre for Professional Development at the National Education Institute and the chair of Research and Development Centre for In service Learning at ATEE – Association of Teacher Education of Europe. In 2006 she has also organised 5-days international course on Mentoring a journey of Learning as a result of 3 years’ Comenius Project MINT. She is a contact person in CIDREE and she is actively involved in the project on assessment.

Area of interest: Professional development, class management, mentoring, coaching.