MARINA GAVA

Marina graduated in 2011 from the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade, at the Department of Serbian Literature and Language, and has been gaining teaching experience ever since.

Her love for reading and for the teaching profession was instilled in her by her family, as she represents the third generation of teachers in her family.

Throughout her work, she has explored (and continues to explore) various methodological approaches, taking advantage of all the possibilities that a subject such as Serbian language and literature offers. With her students, she has organised numerous plays, literary evenings, and quizzes, while in cooperation with the Council and the Youth Office, educational films were recorded on topics that the students themselves selected as challenging for their age group. Correlated teaching was also included, and participation in competitions in language and literature has been a given.

She sees the classroom as a stage, where she is sometimes the actor, but just as often the audience. In line with this, she develops the idea that teaching should be relieving, creative, and increasingly focused on independent student work, as this is the best way to adopt any new information.