Minister Bajrami: Tomorrow begins online instruction through two RTK channels

Minister of Education, Science, Technology and Inovacon Hykmete Bajrami has declared that all preparations have been made to begin broadcasting lessons for the first grade to fifth, which starts Monday, while soon expected to begin from fifth to ninth grade and two-year classes.

The teaching broadcast will take place in the two channels of Kosovo Radio Television and two online platforms. Minister Bajmani agrees that the process is not perfect, but it is the ministry's first initiative to lead, while the moment of the return of normal circumstances will continue with the digitisation of editorial materials, to keep up with the world and to affect problems with heavy bags.

Bajrami has told Kosova Prees that there is a week in a row that has become a video story at the model school, where there have been a large number of teachers in co-operation with the Pristina municipality's education directorate.

“Today a large number of people are still working on the video organization and on the two online platforms we have. The lesson will begin Monday on March 24th, there will be broadcast in RTK1 and RTK 4, meanwhile, all video footage will be available on the e-learn platform, and also materials that have been working on private initiative in Albanian, but in other languages, we will borrow from other countries, they will be available to students, teachers and parents on a website called e-platform. In the first week, we will have lessons mainly for first grade until fifth grade, but I believe that very soon we start then until ninth grade and 12th grade”, she said.

Bajrami has also talked about the challenges that can arise in this process, with teaching that do not have access to the internet, but also about students who even typically do not have the right success.

The process that we are organising is not the perfect process because over these ten days everything has slipped quickly and never in the Ministry of Education has been worked on with online learning and digitalisation of academic materials. We keep that in mind, but we also remember the situation we are facing, the region and the world, which means we are all facing challenges. Now we will do the best we can, we also know that not all students and teachers have access to equipment. The form of online learning is going to be once, it means the communication of a partial where we're going to crack the material. They'll be accessible to students, teachers and parents, then we'll give clear instructions on how to communicate, teachers with parents, teachers and teachers classes with teachers and students in their class as well. In the end, reports from each teacher to the school principal will be prepared, each of the school principal's principals will report to the education director and education director at MAST“, she said.

According to her, the form is made for students and teachers to be active.

This is a form so that students and teachers don't step aside, we'll create tools that they'll be act v. Now if it's a perfect process, it's not. You said education in Kosovo is flawed even in the classic form of how it develops, but it is still a good step. This will be a project that will continue, we learn that we will improve and in the return of normal circumstances we will still continue to digitise editorial materials to be open with developed countries, but this will solve the problem of heavy bags”, said Minister Bajrami.

Minister Bajrami said they have envisioned students and teachers to be in constant contact through e-mails and various groups on social networks.

“We now hope that in a short time we will return to school banks, online testing will be challenging but we will see and take other countries' practices”, she said.

Otherwise, Minister Bajrami cited a large number of non-governmental volunteers and organisations that are providing assistance in the process.