"I think physicists are
the Peter Pans of the human race.
They never grow up
and they keep their curiosity".
Isidor Isaac Rabi
Amna Dervišagić
EDUCATION
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Banja Luka
Mathematical High School at Bosanska Krupa Bosanska Krupa
Faculty of Science of the University in Bihać
Mathematical High School at Bosanska Krupa
Bosanska Krupa
Bosnia and Herzegovina E-mail: amna3x8@yahoo.com
EMPLOYMENT
Public Institution General High School "Bosanska Krupa", since 1996 until today
Public Institution High School "Safet Krupić"
Extra-territorial School for Children refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina at Croatia, "Marne" Rijeka 1995-1996
Primary School "Šumatac" and Primary School "25. November" Velika Kladuša, 1992-1994
Primary School "Bužim" 1990-1992 (warschools)
SEMINARS, CONFERENCES AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
Seminar-workshop: "Service Teacher Training Workshop" organized by the USAID (ABEL2, by Creative Associates International, Inc.), Stubicke Toplice 1995
Through which I certified for: The Brainstorm method of creative thinking, the Tyler's model of curriculum development, the issues concerning school discipline, Dale's cone of experience, the prevention and battle with child wartime PTSP, Ellis' ABC model, Cog's model of group development, Giraffe's classroom.
Other workshops and seminars include:
"Youth Health Education", The Soros Foundation, Fund "Open Society", 1998 (certified for the prevention of eating disorders, abuse of alcohol, tobacco and other narcotics, but also for the prevention of AIDS)
"Competence of teachers for inclusive approaches" Pedagogical Institute Bihac, 4.06.2010.
"Contemporary upbringing- the evaluation and grading of students" Pedagogical Institute Bihac
"Physics in education, topics of modern physics", A seminar for physics teachers in Fojnica for two years: 22-25. January 2005 and 22-24. January 2009.
"Microsoft Partner in Learning, Innovative Education Forum", 2001, Sarajevo (the finale of the competition: "Innovative use of IT in teaching").
"Modern trends of teaching natural sciences - data logging" in the United World College Mostar, 2010.
I am also a member of the Association of Physicists in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
I am a certified attendant of the "School for Building Peace", a project organized by USAID and the Catholic Relief Services of Bosnia and Herzegovina that provided me with a firsthand theoretical and practical education on building peace.
Conference "The School I Love", 2012, Sarajevo
My paper "How to survive a parent meeting" was published in the "Records" of "The School I Love".
The "Records" were the results of a project "Multidisciplinary Society for the Bettering of Mental and Social Health" in cooperation with the proMENTE social research, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Center for Human Rights.
The call for applications was sent out to 294 high schools, but the Records accepted only 30 papers, that included the full version of "How to survive a parent meeting".
The paper presents parent survey results, whose goal had been to improve the communication between parent, student and teacher.
Member of the "Literary Association" Bosanska Krupa - received a special award for a competition they had organized named "Winter through my Window".
Mentor of the "Collectors of Smiles" project, through which students had the opportunity to research the hadith of Prophet Muhammad s.a.a.w: "A smile is a good deed". The students involved in the project discovered more about the scientifically proven health benefits of laughter and smiling.
As part of the activities, the students had to ask people to smile for a photograph they would use in the project: http://www.mreza-mira.net/kutak-za-aktivistice-i-aktiviste/kolekcionari-osmijeha/
Mentorship in the project "All of Al",
Competition of the Burch Olympiad: The project "All of Al" included a survey-research on the general knowledge of citizens on the negative effects of aluminum on human health.
Mentor for a group of students that created a video named "The Secret of a Child's Eye", on the theme "The Children of the European Union".
I created an adapted work program for a student with cerebral palsy, in which I emphasized the importance of encouraging self-acceptance (by naming him examples of successful individuals with cerebral palsy)