SBASK: Education Rating Acceptable

This draft administrative guidance envisions 3 levels of licenses ( there is a career license, advanced license and permanent license). The transition from one license to another is realised through the assessment of internal and external performance and the assessment expected to be organised by AugustI. If the teacher moves from a career license to an advanced license, there is another addition to wages. These levels of licenses apply only to pre-university education. Implementation of these license levels will begin after finalising the” legal framework, the MASTI response said.

A long time of confrontations between the Ministry and the teachers developed for the level of assessment, and the latter rejected any possibility of their written testing. School director “Asim Vokshi”, Nazif Jashari, said another assessment connected with promotion is acceptable.

<x0 Group of career teachers, advanced teacher, mentoring and well-deserved teacher, these are four levels or promotions of teaching licenses that actually hold these teachers with great satisfaction because it directly affects wage raising, or even affects the level of performance and teaching”, he said.

For the Education Union, testing teachers is derogatory. The chairman of the United Education Union, Nundman Jashari, says the estimate of competition is acceptable and only the teachers who want to challenge themselves would be subject to it.

“Gradim will positively influence the rise of quality in education because it creates an internal competition among teachers, creates a commitment and a need for them to be fully prepared for their profession, and I'm saying if this promotion really starts in time and is achieved, it will only bring good Kosovo education, because quality, by becoming this race to meet the challenge set by the criteria for promotion, will influence the teacher to be even more prepared, he said.

For, Youth Qehajen from the Edgood Institute, the teacher performance assessment is necessary but should not be seen as punishment for them.

“What we hope to see very much is a largely school-based performance assessment, not many of formal external evaluations but assessments within the community as community support for any teachers. At the same time, this assessment should be linked to the promotion of teachers in the license to serve us as a genuine financial incentive for better performance, but also the difference within the teaching community”, Qehaja said.

The teacher's assessment and performance is an ongoing problem in the education system in Kosovo, but so far there has been no initiative to solve this problem. /21Media