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MEETINGS OF TEACHERS WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF INSTITUTIONS

27. February 2015.

Meetings with representatives of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development  (MESTD), the Institute for the Advancement of Education ( IAE ) and the Institute for Education Quality and Evaluation (IEQE) were organized for junior and senior primary school teachers of Serbian as a second language and for  principals of primary schools in Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja. The meetings were organized in Presevo and Bujanovac, at the suggestion of junior and senior primary school teachers of 16 primary schools where classes are held in the Albanian language. 

The meeting was aimed at familiarizing junior and senior primary school teachers with the responsibilities of the institutions involved in education, with their activities in the process of developing standards for the aforementioned school subject, with the ways of testing the knowledge of students and with further steps in relation to changes in the curriculum. Junior and senior primary school teachers pointed to the obstacles and difficulties encountered in the course of teaching and provided suggestions for overcoming them, with the support of the competent state bodies.   

This activity is one of the proposed measures contained in the “Study on the Possibilities of Improving the Knowledge and Learning of Serbian as a Second Language in Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja”, which is aimed at improving the quality of teaching, and, therefore, the knowledge of Serbian  of primary school students from the Albanian community. The meetings of teachers and representatives of institutions are just one in a series of planned activities, which are aimed at improving the quality of teaching Serbian as a second language.  The Coordination Body’s Office, in partnership with the MESTD, the IAE, the IEQE, the local self-governments, the Albanian National Council and primary schools, and with the support of its international partners, which include the British Embassy, the European Progress Program and the Office of the High Commissioner on National Minorities, will undertake all the activities. 

Source: Coordination Body