Almost 7,000 high school teachers in Macedonia as of Saturday are attending a training as part of a project on modern teaching methods and techniques aimed at improving the quality of interactive classes in high schools.
The training, consisting of theoretic and practical parts, focuses on stimulating the creativity of teachers and students, encouraging critical thinking among students and creating preconditions paving the way towards using more digital contents. The project, which is in its second stage with the training of teachers, is supported by the University College in London.
The training in all high schools is expected to be completed by June after a process to monitor schools will be launched. On the first day of training, Deputy Minister of Education and Science Spiro Ristovski visited a high school in Skopje, where speaking to reporters he called the project ‘extremely important.’
“The training of councilors and teachers is being realized with support provided by the University College London, one of the top 20 universities in the world according to the Shanghai list. The Londonbased university in the first stage of the project had trained councilors of the Educational Development Bureau to become master trainers in order to transfer the acquired knowledge and skills to the teachers in all high schools in Macedonia,” Ristovski said adding the project was beneficial both for the teachers and their students.
The training offers 8-hour theory lectures and 8-hour support at the schools provided by the councilors, i.e. master trainers.