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The project aims to facilitate an evidence-based reform in teacher professional development to reflect values-based education and promote inclusive education, equality, non-discrimination, and civic competences in all levels of education, improving the training of teachers and continuous professional development in order to impact the long-term quality of the education system while in parallel strengthening the link between education, research and innovation.

The project aims to enhance teachers’ competencies to reflect and advance value-based education (including Education for Democratic Citizenship and Inclusive Education) in their classrooms, in the education curriculum, planning and implementation. The project is of national scope targeting national policies, as well as improving teacher education at the major teacher education institutions.

Empower Teachers Today to Transform Education for Tomorrow

Building Democratic Classrooms, Shaping Inclusive Futures

Strengthening Teacher Competence for Equity, Inclusion, and Democracy

Policy Level Interventions

  • Develop a national framework of teacher competencies for inclusive education
  • Develop reference framework for incorporating VBE in national teacher standards for TE programs
  • Design and launch implementation of a roadmap on responsible citizenship competence development in the school system education
  • Develop a roadmap with the MESTI on the development of an inclusive school climate and inclusive classrooms
  • Develop a national teacher education policy to reflect value-based education, principles of democratic citizenship and inclusive education

Teacher Education Program Interventions

  • Reform at least 20 courses in pre-service TE programs in UP and UPZ to mainstream value-based education and development of responsible citizenship competence into the curriculum
  • Reflect skills and competence building on working with children with learning difficulties and children from marginalized communities
  • Re-define pre-service teacher education pedagogical practice (at least 14 courses) to support increased student participation in school community volunteer activities that foster development of democratic competencies
  • Reforming TE Programs to reflect value-based education and increase student-teacher competencies in equity education and inclusive education

Capacity Building Interventions

  • Design and deliver a sustainable in-service teacher development program for teaching equity, values, and diversity and building responsible citizenship competence for at least 300 teachers
  • Design and accredit an E- training program for transferring values, teaching diversity and building responsible citizenship competence and create open learning resources for teaching equity, diversity, democratic citizenship and responsible citizenship
  • Develop and deliver capacity building program for at least 100 in-service teachers and 50 school directors on building democratic school culture and inclusive learning environment
  • Design and deliver a teacher educator capacity building programme for teaching equity and values to at least 40 educators from all teacher education institutions in Kosovo

School Based Interventions

  • Implement direct interventions in schools in developing democratic and inclusive school climate and culture through student-led mini-projects on value-based education in at least 20 pilot schools
  • Develop a framework for self-evaluation of school progress towards development of responsible citizenship competence and implement the framework in practice.
  • Carry-out participatory school development planning in at least 20 pilot schools to promote democratic school culture
  • Support in-service and pre-service teachers to produce innovative teaching and learning materials for children with diverse needs and learning styles

KICER 2025

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Date

2025

Location

Location Nr. 1, City, Zip code, Prishtina

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