Comments on the Interschool Program „I Know Everything About Money.”

Abstract

Change of traditional teacher’s function is at reformed Polish school the current trend. Teacher passing on knowledge pupils to becomes transformed in organizer independent learning pupils. First important result of new style of teacher’s work is that learning process is built on knowledge. One of the methods of dealing with challenges of present school is the method which depend on independent realization pupils’ task prepared and co-coordinated by teacher. On the terrain of city Białystok the interscholar project „I Know Everything About Money” was realized, which stood up in frames of training for teachers of bases for entrepreneurships and knowledge about society entitled: „Where the Money grows - How the Banks Act in Poland?” (the training organized guided by Teachers’ Professional Development Center in Białystok, refinanced with grants of the National Bank of Poland). Students from III LO (K.K. Baczyński IIIrd Secondary School), XIV LO (XIVth Secondary School) from Secondary School of General Education No. 9 and as General W. Anders Technical Secondary School of Metal and Wood from Białystok participated in this project. The subject of project contained the questions about money as well as central banking. It was realized under direction of teachers of bases for entrepreneurships (M. Kulikowska, M. Szczepańska, B. Krasnodębska) by pupils from second and third classes in the end of December 2004 and at the beginning of January 2005 in Białystok. Finding information from different sources processing them and setting in order and finally presenting them in public was pupils’ task. The most interesting works were presented on the conference on 13th of June 2005 in regional residence of National Bank of Poland in Białystok.