Vanja Stijakovic

Experience

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  Elementary school "Vuk Stefanović Karadžić"

  Sept 2014 - Sept 2015

  Teaching Assistant

  Assisting a child with special needs or developmental difficulties. Adjusting teaching contents to the child's capabilities. Cooperating with the teacher, pedagogists and psychologists in developing an individualised learning plan. Working on social integration of a child with developmental disabilities.

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  Association for Assistance to Persons with Autism "Djeca svjetlosti"

  Jan 2015 - now

  Coordinator of a volunteer group

  Monitoring volunteers. Coordination of volunteers' weekly activities;Promoting the work of the Association in the media and presenting its work to the students ofUniversity of Banja Luka;Participation in writing projects of the Association;Assisting with the organisation of charity events;Creation of individual treatments for the members of the Association: Individual therapies for themembers of the Association. Independent design of occupational and recreational activities andcreative workshops with the members;Writing reports on activities and improvement of the members of the Association. Show less

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  Oxford Educational Center

  Jan 2016 - now

  Instructor of NTC system of learning

  Development of creativity and functional knowledge in children through activities that involve complex motor activities such as fine motor skills, dynamic accommodation of the eye, as well as activities that characterise the classification of thought, seriation and association. Work on the development of divergent and convergent thinking, as well as functional knowledge.- Holding workshops for primary school children.

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  Unicef

  Jan 2017 - Mar 2017

  Trainer for theatrical education in the field of Theatre of the Oppressed

  Theatre of the Oppressed is a system of theatrical workshops and interactive plays which enables participants that by performing on stage they become active creators of their own lives. It deals with local socio-political problems, minority problems, discrimination, specific and sensitive topics, both personal and everyday problems that people encounter, and it presents a means of social change. Individuals are empowered to act and to confront problems in their community, as well as personal problems and hardships. Awareness is raised of the importance of specific problems in society. - Seven-day training was held for youth from Prnjavor area; - Two performances of the forum theater were held in Prnjavor and Vukosavlje on the topic of early marriages of teenagers, peer violence, violence against children and a number of problems encountered by both Roma and socially vulnerable populations in our society. Show less