LAUNCHING THE PRACTICE LEARNING COMMUNITY MODEL

So far, 4,650 employees in preschool institutions have been trained within the Program for Support to Capacity Building for the Implementation of the Fundamentals of Program – Years of ascent, which are implemented in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, UNICEF and the Institute for Pedagogy and Andragogy. Mentoring support to preschool institutions is in progress, while one of the segments of the Support Program – Model of the community of professional learning of practitioners has been piloted since September 2020 in the preschool institution “Radost” in Cacak. During this process, participants will have the opportunity to get acquainted with the Model, its goals, scenario content, as well as technical instructions for the preparation and implementation of professional meetings. In the second half of December, a one-day professional meeting of practitioners from several kindergartens will be organized, during which the practitioners will exchange their experiences, reflections and will have the chance to think together about further action plans for change.

In the work so far, the team of the Preschool Institution “Radost” has shown a high degree of motivation and professionalism for participation in the process of piloting the Model of the Community of Professional Learning Practitioners. The results of the piloting, the insights of the practitioners and the creators of the Model gained during the piloting will contribute to the improvement of the initial Model of the Professional Learning Community of Practitioners.