This paper presents the results of research of children’s attitude toward education and atmosphere at primary school – what they like, which relationships exist among students and between students and classroom teachers, which activities are available during their free time at school and outside of it, and how they understand and spend their time with others at school. The research is focused on studying personal attitude, feelings of children, as well as choice and real opportunities of different types of schools in Bulgaria. Students share their opinion and ideas of what they would have changed in their own school if they had such an opportunity. The specificity of children’s attitude towards public and private schools in the capital and large cities is especially clearly visible. Private schools applying new ideas and pedagogical philosophy are more liberal and focused on children’s style in pedagogical interaction, have more flexible organization of educational process and school life inside and outside the classroom. Students’opinion about national and private schools as well as schools located in capital, capital area and provinces differs significantly. This is due to specifics of educational environment and different quality of education in different types of primary schools in Bulgaria.

The report analyzes the results of an empirical study conducted in 2019 with 562 teachers from different types of schools, settlements in Bulgaria and stages of education. Their views and attitude to the application of innovative methods in school activities – curricular, extracurricular and others were monitored. Based on the collected data, a profile of the modern teacher as a school innovator was outlined. The report include information about: what forms, methods and tools teachers use in their practice; what innovative methods they know, how often apply them and what motivated them; whether the innovative methods help in the student’s learning process; the extent to which innovative teaching methods increase the quality of learning content. A special focus in the study was placed on the role of teacher’s education and proffesional qualification for the application of innovative methods, as well as school management for the introduction of innovations and support to teachers in this process.

Supervision is viewed within the process of art-therapy and counseling in social work practice as an applied field of social pedagogy. The consulting and counseling within the helping professions in the social sphere is viewed as an important issue in the university training of specialists working with individuals, families and groups with different problems. The specifics of the consulting and counseling in the social sphere have been defined. On the basis of the analysis and the study of one’s own teaching experience as well as the empirical study of the feedback from students` opinions conclusions have been made about the problems of the methodology of the preparation for the helping professions. Attitudes towards professional counseling, self-estimation of the level of education and expectations for realization in the social sphere have been viewed as indirect orientations. In the end some generalization are made about the practice of supervision in art-therapy and counseling in social practice and teaching.