Educators are responsible people and they should be provided with mechanisms to bring the school year to an end in the best possible way, says Milan Stošić, director of the "Veselin Masleša" Elementary School.
bike school is based on long-term strategic documents such as diversity and annual plans, and therefore each school will have to show how far it has deviated from its plans due to protest and what the compensation for the school year will look like.
"Each school, in cooperation with the ministry, advisers and the institute, will have to say how much it has deviated from the annual work plan," said Milan Stošić, director of "Veselin Masleša" Elementary School.
When it comes to the introduction of the eighth class as a possible solution for making up for missed material, Stošić warns of the danger of "excessive formalism".
"The essence is the children's educational goals. We can't deal with children only in form - we can with salaries and hourly rates - but not with them. Every school will have to find a way not to overload the students," said Stošić.
Everyone must understand the situation
He points out that educators are responsible people and that they should be provided with mechanisms to bring the school year to an end in the best possible way.
"We cannot finish this if all actors - children, parents, teachers, the ministry - do not understand the situation and do not agree on their positions," Stošić claims.
When asked what he advises teachers and parents, he answers that the most important thing is to take care of the children first.
"First, let's look at the psychological state of the children. Let's encourage them to return to school, let's evaluate them formatively, that is, let's make the evaluation be affirmative," says Stošić.
Eighth hour - a sensitive issue
Branislav Ranđelović from the Institute for Evaluation of the Quality of Knowledge and Education agrees that the extra hour is a "sensitive issue".
He believes that the current situation, in line with the blockade of institutions and protests, is perhaps an opportunity to reconsider the way in which teaching is organized.
"Today, children have a very short attention span. It is difficult for them to learn well with so many classes. Maybe this is the moment to think about reducing the daily workload in terms of teaching. In my time, attention waned already during the fifth or sixth class," says Randjelovic.
He also points out that the eighth class will be a kind of test for teachers - to check how well the children are able to follow the lessons and to determine through practice what is possible and what is not.
"It will be the right way to see what children can really do and what they can't do," said Randjelovic.
Teachers will need to be flexible
Ranđelović points to the need for greater use of formative assessment.
"Teachers know their students best. They will have to be flexible and find a compromise between what is prescribed and what is realistic," says Randjelovic.
He especially underlines the importance of focusing on actual knowledge and not just on grades.
"It's good that a colleague reminded us that we should look at children's knowledge, not just their grades," concludes Randjelovic.
Educators are deeply concerned
Ana Dimitrijević from the Forum of Belgrade High Schools points out that it is not yet known how the situation with the return to school desks will develop, but that educators are deeply concerned.
"Perhaps the public has the impression that we don't care, but we only care about that all the time - how the students will be graded and how they will finish the school year," says Dimitrijević.
He states that a lot depends on the duration of the protest, the students, especially the high school graduates, who are in large numbers blocking classes.
"Not everything depends only on the teacher. Depending on when the protests end, it will also depend on the way in which we conclude grades and the success of students," Dimitrijević pointed out.
Teachers will have to adjust the criteria
Borko Petrović, a teacher at the "Stevan Jakovljević" elementary school from Paraćin, states that the same quality of knowledge as in regular circumstances cannot be expected.
"That knowledge will not be close to what it would be under normal conditions. In recent years, more and more people are studying for grades, not for actual knowledge," notes Petrović.
He notes that teachers will have to adjust the criteria and take into account all the circumstances.
"We know those children, their possibilities and capacities. If they cannot demonstrate their knowledge right now, we will have to meet them, but that also means lowering the criteria," Petrović said.
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