A NEW CYCLE OF ADDITIONAL TRAINING FOR THE BASICS OF THE PROGRAM HAS BEEN STARTED – UNTIL COMPLETE COVERAGE OF PRACTITIONERS

As part of the project of the Ministry of Education, Inclusive preschool education and Care, which is financially supported by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, UNICEF, as an engaged implementation partner, organizes training for the implementation of the new Foundations of preschool education and education program „Godine uzleta”, developed by the Institute for Pedagogy and Andragogy of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Belgrade.

The support program developed in the first year of the Project implementation includes combined training, mentoring support, and horizontal changes, while in the third year, all planned manuals were completed. Support for the introduction of the new Fundamentals of the Preschool Education Program (Fundamentals of the Program) is planned in phases that support the implementation of the Rulebook on the Basics of the Preschool Education Program, which foresees the introduction of new Program Basics in phases from 2019 to 2022, and the goals for each year of implementation have been determined so that the final total coverage of the training will be 12,000 practitioners, that is, 63% of all practitioners in public preschool institutions (1,500 in the first year, 4,500 in the second, 8,500 in the third and 12,000 in the fourth year).

The set goal of the project was greatly exceeded! A total of 13,797 practitioners from public preschool institutions (76%) were trained in the three-year period, which significantly exceeded the target of 12,000 trained (63%). In addition, 678 practitioners employed in private preschool institutions (about 35 %) and 172 teachers who are implementing the preparatory preschool program organized by elementary schools (about 65 %) improved their competencies through online training, although their training was not originally planned.

By June 2022, a total of 14,647 practitioners attended training, which represents about 75% of all practitioners who work in state and private preschool institutions and elementary schools that implement the program in the year before starting school.

From the savings achieved by implementing part of the training in an online format, it is planned that by the end of the project, within the framework of three cycles of moderated online training, all remaining educators of public Preschools who have not had the opportunity to attend training for the implementation of the Fundamentals of the Program will be included. Additional online training is also planned to include practitioners from all private preschool institutions that are registered in the unique information system (JISP) of the Ministry of Education, as well as the remaining educators who implement the preparatory preschool program organized by primary schools.

Additional moderated online training for the implementation of the Basics of the PVO program will be implemented by June 2023. The implementation of the complete training lasts five weeks, with the first two parts of the training (OP Concept and Development of the actual program) lasting two weeks each, and the third part of the training (Documentation) Week.

During that period, it is up to each of the training participants to choose the dynamics by which they will familiarize themselves with the materials and implement the planned activities, where they will also have feedback from the training leader/moderator.

The first part of the training within the second cycle started on Wednesday, March 1, 2023. year, from 8 a.m., through the National Education Portal of the Institute for the Improvement of Education and Training. The second part of the training will be implemented from March 15, 2023, and the third part from March 29, 2023. The entire cycle will be completed on April 4, 2023, and will include 1,787 participants from 22 preschool institutions.

The next (third) cycle of additional training will be realized in the period from April 25 to May 31, 2023, and will include another 1,666 practitioners from 38 preschool institutions.

The first cycle of additional online training has already been implemented in the period November – December 2022 and included 1700 participants.

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