Strategy for Civic Education in Primary and Secondary Schools in ...

• ongoing compilation and provision of teaching materials and
expert literature which should enable the teachers permanent
access to knowledge and modern teaching methodologies in the
field of civic education.
III Teacher Training. The activities to enhance training have been defined
to ensure:
• the development of ongoing and enhanced training system (with
new contents and goals), following the basic training for primary
and general secondary school teachers,
• the creation of the roster of trainers, consisting of teachers who
have acquired trainer competencies, and
• the inclusion of democratic citizenship principles and practices
in university curricula, the undergraduate teacher education
programme.
IV Quality Monitoring, Assurance and Improvement. To constantly
monitor, assure and improve the quality of Civic Education teaching, and
the learning context, we have devised the following activities:
• teaching quality and the presence of democratic citizenship
principles in schools are monitored by clearly defined indicators
enabling measurement of quality and the level to which the
principles are present,
• based on the information obtained by assessing indicators, teaching
quality and presence of democratic citizenship principles are
permanently enhanced,
• development and application of the evaluation and self-evaluation
models,
• strengthening capacities of school and BES employees – training
for the application of evaluation models; develop a roster of
trainers.
V Use of Additional Resources. The so-called external sources or resources
(nongovernmental organisations programmes, the University, Association
of Civic Education Teachers) provide strong support to Civic Education
quality monitoring and assurance. In order for the support to be constant
and well-planned, the Strategy envisages the following activities:
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