Towards a quality oriented system of initial teacher education to increase teacher professionalism in Kosovo Erasmus Project

Project Title

Towards a quality oriented system of initial teacher education to increase teacher professionalism in Kosovo

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The project aims at enhancing quality of design and delivery of initial teacher education (ITE) towards increasing the professionalism bar for teaching profession in Kosovo through the implementation of European-inspired quality assurance mechanism that produce teacher professionalism aspired by teaching profession in Kosovo. The two important concepts in this project are 1) internal quality assurance mechanism in Initial Teacher Education (including but not limited to program review, organised monitoring, collecting feedback from students on quality of teaching and learning resources, review of quality of student services, review of managerial practices including staff policies, review of research activity etc, and 2) the development of teacher professionalism. The project makes the link in a way that the proposed internal quality assurance mechanism needs to contribute to the achievement of the desired professionalism in school system. The desired professionalism is referred to the policy set up for the teaching profession which the internal quality assurance system needs to contribute to. In addition, in order to achieve a quality culture in initial teacher education, the project supports the development of management skills and practices to manage internal quality assurance as well as development of teacher educator competencies to be able to deliver quality courses (specified in quality indicators for teaching in teacher education) that are in line with the expectations of professionalism in teaching profession and at the service of school reform. In order to address this, the project provides capacity building and resources for teacher educators and managers of initial teacher education. In this way the project brings all stakeholders together to link to the development of a quality culture in teacher education in Kosovo.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 748665 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITETI I PRISHTINES & Country: XK

Project Partners

• LIBERA UNIVERSITA MARIA SANTISSIMAASSUNTA
• UNIVERSITESI I GJAKOVES FEHMI AGANI
• UNIVERSITETI PUBLIK KADRI ZEKA
• UNIVERSITETI I MITROVICES ISA BOLETINI
• TALLINN UNIVERSITY
• UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI