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- IB (International Baccalaureate) Programme
- Legal framework Law on Primary Education
- Law on Primary and Secondary School Teachers
- Law on the National Examination Centre
- Law on Pedagogical Service
- Strategies and other documents
- Professional bodies are as follows
- Teacher career development
- Statistics on primary and lower secondary education Table 4: Primary and lower secondary schools, class sections, students and teachers
- School year Students Teachers
- Total Total Females
- Table 5: Primary and lower secondary schools according to the language of instruction - end of school year 2013/2014
- Total Students Graduated students
- Total 190 541 92 542
- Table 6: Qualifications awarded in primary education
- Qualification level according to NQF
- Table 7: Summative presentation of primary education
2.2.2 Primary education
Primary education (ISCED 1 and 2) is compulsory and free-of-charge for all students. The Law on Primary Education (Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia No. 103/2008) introduced nine-year primary education in three educational periods: first period – first to third grade, second period – fourth to sixth grade, and third period – seventh to ninth grade.
The primary education is implemented in municipal and state primary schools. Municipal schools are established by the municipalities. State schools are established by the Government for students with special educational needs. The municipality, i.e. the Government, may also establish international public school implementing curricula and programmes in one of the world languages (English, French, and German). The students with special educational needs are included in the regular class sections of the primary schools or in special class sections in the mainstream schools. Furthermore, primary education is also delivered in the special primary schools. Primary education is also provided in healthcare, social, penal-correctional and juvenile correctional institutions. Teaching in special class sections in the mainstream schools and in the special schools is delivered in accordance with adapted programmes and curricula that are appropriate to the type and degree of children’s educational needs. The educational work in special schools and the special class sections in primary schools is performed by teachers, defectologists, upbringers, school pedagogues and psychologists with appropriate higher educational attainment. The type of professional qualification of the persons performing the educational work in special schools and in special class sections in primary schools is regulated with a Norm for teaching staff in special schools and special classes in primary schools, as established by the Minister. Teaching in one school year lasts 38 weeks, i.e. 180 school working days distributed in two semesters. Total of 360 primary schools have been verified, of which 335 are municipal, 14 primary music schools, 10 state schools (4 schools for students with special needs, 5 institutes and 1 public childcare institution) and 1 school for adult education. The curriculum is structured by subjects: compulsory, elective, supplementary and additional classes. The National educational plan for 9-year primary education is provided in Annex 1. In the school year 2014/15, adapted curricula in mathematics and natural sciences for the first period (first to third grade) were introduced in all primary schools in accordance with the education programmes of UK’s Cambridge International Examination Centre. Specifics of the adapted curricula: spiral curriculum, research and problem-solving. Train-the-trainer course and training of primary school teachers (class teachers) were delivered. The following publications were prepared: Manual for teaching mathematics and natural sciences, Guidelines on planning teaching and textbooks. Adapted curricula for the students in the second and third period of primary education will be also introduced by 2016. IB (International Baccalaureate) Programme – Since the school year 2013/14, two municipal schools have been implementing the Primary Years Programme (PYP), and as of the school year 2014/15, these schools have been also implementing the Middle Years Programme (MYP). The Programme is delivered in Macedonian language. Primary music education Primary music education is not mandatory. Students attend these classes along with their regular classes. Classes are held in state schools for music and ballet education, municipal primary music schools, as well as in class sections within mainstream primary schools. Classes are held individually and as a group, depending on the type of the subject.
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Strategies and other documents
The Ministry of Education and Science (website: mon.gov.mk) designs policies and monitors their implementation on all levels of education. It has the competence over the organizing, financing, promoting and developing education, as well as verifying programmes and curricula and institutions. The Bureau for Development of Education proposes to the Minister of Education and Science concepts for development, programmes and curricula for primary education and education of children with special educational needs; organizes and performs activities for professional development of teaching staff and managerial staff; performs and organizes research in the field of education; performs professional advisory work for improving the quality of educational institutions; performs professional insight of the manner of planning and implementation of the learning units; prepares educational standards, standards for student achievements and implements activities for evaluation of children’s achievements; prepares textbook concepts, programme for publishing textbooks and methodology for professional evaluation of textbook manuscripts and textbook quality assessment; performs publishing activities related to the development of educational activities. The decentralization of primary and secondary education started in 2005.Establishing and managing schools is under the competence of the local-self-government (municipalities). School managing authority is the School Board, composed of 9 members (representatives of the teachers, professional associates, upbringers, parents, the founder and the Ministry of Education and Science).The School Board adopts Programme for School Development, proposes Annual Work Programme and submits School Activity Report to the Municipal Council. The Board proposes financial plan and submits final financial report to the founder. Professional bodies are as follows: Teachers’ Council, Council of class teachers, Council of subject teachers and teachers’ expert body. The Teachers' Council provides opinions on the development programme and on the annual work programme, and monitors their implementation; reviews and determines the grades of students and the work of the other expert bodies; reviews the delivery of the curriculum, and undertakes measures for their implementation; adopts decisions upon student complaints on final marks; reviews the report on the implementation of the annual work programme, on the self-evaluation and on the performed integral evaluation and proposes appropriate measures; provides opinion on the school’s annual financial plan.
The education work is performed by teachers, professional associates (pedagogue, psychologist, sociologist, social worker, defectologist, and librarian) and upbringers with appropriate higher education and passed professional exam. Classes in primary schools for music and ballet education are held by teachers, accompaniments, librarians, school pedagogues and psychologists with appropriate education. The type of professional training is regulated with a Norm for the teaching staff of the primary school, which is prescribed by the Minister. Class instructions may be held by a person with a university degree in a non-teaching field who acquired pedagogical and psychological, as well as methodical training at an accredited higher education institution. Teacher career development – teachers and professional associates are developed, trained and promoted in titles: teacher-beginner, teacher, teacher-mentor and teacher-adviser. For professional associates: professional associate-beginner, professional associate, professional associate-mentor and professional associate-adviser.
Learning outcomes are defined in the curriculum as learning objectives for each curricular domain in each subject based on Bloom's taxonomy. Example of the educational programme for English language for VII grade of primary education is provided on the website http://bro.gov.mk/docs/angliski_jazik_VII_odd_IX.pdf.
Table 4: Primary and lower secondary schools, class sections, students and teachers
Source: State Statistical Office Table 5: Primary and lower secondary schools according to the language of instruction - end of school year 2013/2014
Source: State Statistical Office
Accreditation of programmes and curricula The Bureau for Development of Education proposes curriculum, which is approved by the Minister of Education and Science. The curriculum contains compulsory and elective subjects, supplementary and additional classes. The programmes are prepared based on the curriculum The programmes set out the learning objectives, content, basic terms, activities and methods of teaching, mandatory use of ICT, assessment of student achievements (diagnostic checks and assessment, formative assessment, micro summative assessment, summative assessment, portfolio accessibility and mobility and manner of checking and evaluation), conditions for implementing the curriculum (premises and norm for teaching staff) and expected outcomes. The programme is prepared by a Commission composed as follows: university professors, teachers and advisors from the Bureau for Development of Education. Classes on mother tongue and culture are organized for the children of citizens of the Republic of Macedonia staying abroad and in accordance with the ratified agreements. The classes are held in accordance with a programme and curriculum prepared by the Bureau for Development of Education and approved by the Minister of Education and Science. Children with foreign citizenship or children without citizenship who are staying in the Republic of Macedonia are entitled to primary education under the same terms and conditions as the children who are citizens of the Republic of Macedonia. The children who are citizens of EU and whose parents reside in the Republic of Macedonia, performing individual activity, i.e. self-employed or employed on the territory of the Republic of Macedonia, are entitled to acquisition of knowledge of the mother tongue and culture of their country of origin. Primary school accreditation The accreditation is conducted in accordance with rulebooks. The Commission for accreditation of the fulfilment of the criteria for accreditation of state primary school is composed of three members: from the Ministry of Education and Science, the Bureau for Development of Education and the State Education Inspectorate. The Commission for examination of the fulfilment of the criteria for accreditation of municipal primary school is composed of four members: from the Ministry of Education and Science (MoES), the Bureau for Development of Education, the State Education Inspectorate and the municipality. Thus verified state or municipal primary school is then registered into the Central registry of primary schools, which is maintained by MoES. Municipal primary schools are also registered in the Municipal registry of primary schools, which is maintained by the municipality for the primary schools within its territory. Assessment The monitoring and checks of student progress and achievement are conducted by means of internal and external assessment. Internal assessment is performed by the teachers throughout the school year by means of oral or written assessment, or by doing projects. Starting from IV grade onwards, external electronic assessment is performed at the end of the school year by means of question pool. The external assessment covers two subjects for each student, except for the subjects that enable the students to acquire skills. The draft question pool is prepared by the Bureau for Development of Education. The control, final approval of questions and the administering of the testing are carried out by the National Examination Centre. The results are recorded in the certificate for completed year. Besides national assessments the Republic of Macedonia participates in the international assessments TIMSS and PIRLS. The students of the final year of primary education have taken part in three rounds of the international assessment TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study): TIMSS-R 1999, TIMSS 2003 and TIMSS 2011. The nine and ten-year-old pupils have been involved in the PIRLS 2001 and PIRLS 2006 rounds. Parent and student counselling has been performed since 2013 in accordance with appropriate programmes. Table 6: Qualifications awarded in primary education
Example of certificate for primary education (svidetelstvo) is provided on the MQF website: http://mrk.mk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Svidetelstvo_osnovno_MK-Copy.pdf Self-evaluation and integral evaluation of schools Each school performs biannual self-evaluation in 7 domains: programmes and curricula, student achievements, learning and teaching, student support, school climate, resources and management and administration. Self-evaluation results are published on the websites of the school and the municipality. They serve as basis for the integral evaluation, which is conducted by the State Education Inspectorate every three years for the same 7 domains. Example of a Self-Evaluation Report of the primary school “Mirce Acev” – Gjorce Petrov, Skopje is provided on the link http://oumirceacev.edu.mk/dokumenti.html3 Licensing of directors of primary and secondary schools School director must be a person with higher educational attainment who fulfils the conditions for teacher/professional associate, and has at least 5 years of experience in educational work and who has passed director exam. Since 2010, the National Examination Centre has been responsible for training director candidates, administering the exam for directors of primary and public secondary schools and issuing certificates for passed exams. The Programme is implemented through the following modules: Introductory module; Theory of Organization; People in the organization; the director as a pedagogical manager; Planning and decision-making; Legislation and Finance. The exam is taken in front of an Examination Commission. In accordance with the Law on Training and Exam for Director of Primary School, Secondary School, Secondary-School Student Dormitory and Open Civic University for Life-Long Learning, as of 2016, the licensed school directors will be attending training in duration of at least 4 seminar days (minimum 32 hours) throughout the year. Table 7: Summative presentation of primary education
Example of Certificate for completed professional exam by teacher, psychologist, pedagogue, librarian, upbringer for primary/secondary education (Уверение за положен стручен испит/Uverenie za polozen strucen ispit) is provided on the website: http://mrk.mk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Sertificate_strucen_ispit.pdf. Yüklə 10,31 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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