MINISTER OF EDUCATION, PH.D. SLAVICA DJUKIC DEJANOVIC VISITED KINDERGARTEN – “ZEMUNSKI BISER” CLUSTER CENTER

Minister of Education Ph.D. Slavica DJukic Dejanovic, on September 11, 2023, visited the “Dr. Simo Milosevic” preschool, the “Zemunski Biser” kindergarten, which is the center of the cluster in the Program of Support for Preschool Institutions in the Implementation of the Foundations of the Preschool Education Program – “Godine Uzleta“, and awarded them a Certificate of Appreciation to support the horizontal learning of practitioners within the model Joint learning by modeling.

Minister Slavica DJukic Dejanovic, Ph.D., visited the kindergarten with Nikola Pontara, director of the World Bank office in Serbia, and Dejana Kostadinova, director of UNICEF in Serbia. During the tour of the kindergarten, she spoke with the children and teachers and expressed her satisfaction with the significant changes at the level of preschool upbringing and education, which were initiated by the introduction of the new program concept “Godine Uzleta”.

At the same time, as part of the 4th cycle of counseling of educational advisors, which is organized from the funds of component 2 of the project “Inclusive Preschool Education and Care”, educational advisors from the school administrations of Zrenjanin, Novi Sad and Sombor visited the kindergarten throughout the day, in order to preparations for external evaluation of preschool institutions in accordance with the revised Quality Framework. The minister used the visit to greet the educational advisers and talk with them about their current and upcoming activities.

Zemun kindergarten is one of 5 kindergartens – cluster centers on the territory of the Republic of Serbia together with kindergartens in Cacak, Novi Sad, Loznica and Pirot. In order to strengthen these kindergartens for the implementation of one-day accredited professional meetings for colleagues – practitioners from other preschool institutions, the Institute of Pedagogy and Andragogy of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade, within the Project, developed training for those responsible for the change of practice in preschool institutions, which was attended by all educators from of these kindergartens.

Also, through the project, these kindergartens are equipped with low mobile furniture, ICT equipment and didactic tools.

By June 2023, the Kindergarten “Zemunski Biser” was visited by about 330 educators, professional associates and directors from 32 preschool institutions from all over Serbia during 11 expert meetings. Visits to the kindergarten – a center of the cluster additionally empowered practitioners from other preschool institutions in developing quality practice in accordance with the Foundations of the program, but also practitioners from Zemun because they had the opportunity to learn together, through quality mutual professional exchanges.

The visits will continue in the period September – December 2023.

You can see the photos here.