The traditional school system included adopting as much information without critical thinking while modern school tends to democratic education that is focused on the development of individual abilities of each student and to develop his critical thinking. In traditional teaching communication the teacher dominates. Such is the autocratic communication which was reflected in a bossy role of teachers while in modern teaching the emphasis is on the student's role and the democratic communication. In pursuing the goal of non-experimental empirical research that we set in our study, we found that there is a statistically significant connection between interpersonal communication in teaching and students' success, and that those students whose teachers mostly used the democratic model of communication in teaching achieved statistically significantly better school achievements than those students whose teachers use mainly the autocratic model of communication. The survey was conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Herzegovina-Neretva Canton) and a sample of 423 respondents (322 students and 101 teachers of primary schools). Through the results, contents and messages of this paper we have tried to make you aware of the importance of this segment of communication in the learning process and as such to make it the subject of everyday questioning and continuous work that should lead to its improvement, and thus to improving the quality of the entire educational process. Article visualizations:

Extracurricular activities represent educational, preplanned actions which enable complete confirmation of students’ personality as well as development of their communication skills and competencies; whilst they enable the teachers to expand their educational influence. Modern school can’t be imagined without innovations or modifications to the entire communicational discourse, since its perspective is to be a progressive model whereat main communicational types of behavior are learnt and formed. The research was carried out at primary and secondary schools in the area of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Mostar region) and it included 590 students and 315 teachers. With this empirical research we have tested the presence of a democratic, voluntary, partnership and pedagogic-stimulating communication within the process of putting the extracurricular activities into realization. The goal of our research was to determine whether there is a statistically significant difference between evaluations made by students and those made by teachers of primary and secondary schools that a democratic, voluntary, partnership and pedagogic stimulating communication is mostly dominant in the process of putting extracurricular activities into realization. The results we have collected have shown the difference between students’ and teachers’ perception of dominant communication in realization of extracurricular activities.

The teaching process is realized through communication and interaction between pupils and teachers. To what extent the educational process will be successful it is determined by the content and direction of verbal interaction and communication. Verbal teacher-pupil interaction is a multifaceted construct that involves a number of different components that are interconnected. The studies of teacher-pupil interactions clearly show that the type and the quality of established interaction in the classroom are related to learning outcomes. Teaching should include real learning, not just reproductive academic tasks in the traditional teaching which favoured role of the teacher as the subject of the teaching process, and placed pupils in the position of passive listeners and executors of teacher’s commands. The survey was conducted in primary and secondary schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Mostar region) through direct observation of verbal communication and interaction and their connection to the teaching outcomes of eight school subjects. The extent to which pupils are directly or indirectly involved in the process of executing instruction, and what is their interaction at a time, we examined by Flanders' interaction analysis protocols. The protocol we applied systematically observed 224 lessons (112 lessons in primary and 112 lessons in secondary school). The results we obtained suggest that the verbal activity of teachers is still dominant, and that verbal activity of pupils is neglected. Article visualizations:

Communication is a great value of the whole humankind. People who communicate well are able to convey their knowledge and ideas to other people. Good and quality communication is necessary for functioning in all spheres of the social life, and at the same time for the functioning of the pedagogical-educational process. The research has been conducted for determining which types, i.e. what sort of communication is dominant in the relation principal - students. The sample included 590 students of primary and secondary school and 14 principals from the region of Herzegovina (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Licker's scale was used for gathering data. Results of the research showed that communication between principal and students, there was democratic, direct and non-violent communication between principals and students. Communication between a principal and students is still the area, which is not given great significance. Most often, the accent is on communication between students and teachers, avoiding the analysis of communication between students and principals. Although in the pedagogical-educational work, communication between students and teachers is dominant; our opinion is that it is necessary to develop this communicational area as well. Quality communication at school should be a strategic point of principals, and it should be planned and applied consciously and continuously.