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4. POSITIVE EDUCATION IN PEDAGOGICAL REALITY creativity, adaptability and healthy self-confidence, internal motivation, and ability to recognize their strengths and weaknesses. Success based on belief in ones abilities and knowledge supports the students healthy self-confidence. I experience positive emotions (joy, satisfaction) when my parents appreciate my success During using elements of positive psychology in pedagogical practice, teachers must take into account the fteenage period" of adolescents, in which, according to Gáborová and Porubéanova (2017), young people present their opinions and mistrust of the adult population is manifested. Nowadays, it is important to lead adolescents to gratitude during their education. According to Konickova (2019), gratitude fills students’ lives with joy. In the survey, up to 93% of respondents feel joy and satisfaction when they feel their parents’ recognition. According to the respondents, family emotional ties are strong and they feel gratitude. TamaSova and KuSnierikova (2018) highlight the importance of emotional family bonds for the healthy emotional development of an individual. More than 90% of high-school students understand success as living a happy, satisfying life in the family circle, when they do what they are interested in, their life flows according to their expectations, and they come closer to achieving the set objectives. Based on the knowledge, skills, opinions and attitudes that they acquired in education, they have more self-confidence, and we can state that teachers lead adolescents to understand, experience and accept success in life. Interesting results are documented by the respondents’ statements, in which they had to complete the sentence “When I’m at school I feel...”. The respondents supplemented the given statement with the presented emotions according to their feelings toward the researcher. The statements were ranked from the highest to the lowest point score. The results of the survey of respondents’ subjective feelings show the following. Table 2. Subjective feelings when being in school Number Feeling % 1. happiness 66% 2. boredom, fatigue 64% 3. curiosity 60% 4. satisfaction 49% 5. inspiration, enthusiasm 45% 6. pretense, sadness, stage fright 30% + 65 +