The Director of Education in the Municipality of Pristina, Jehona Lushaku-Sadriu, in an interview on the show "60 Minutes" on KTV on Tuesday, gave details about the municipality's plan for starting the all-day learning process in five schools. As she said, everything is ready for this process and "if everything goes well, next year we hope to double the number".
After four years, according to her, the goal is to extend to all schools.
She said that international models and the model that was tried in the mandate of former president Shpend Ahmeti were taken for the model of all-day learning. According to her, the main difference with this project planned years ago is that at that time it was intended that the all-day teaching would include from the first to the ninth grade, and with the current plan all-day teaching will be given to the first to the second grade. the fifth.
"There is a specific difference here. We plan it up to the fifth and then we physically moved the 6th to 9th grades to nearby schools. In the existing schools, the first and ninth grades will no longer be in the same building. We have created more space and all-day learning is more possible. We have taken the challenges and we have seen if we can do it differently. We got more staff, tools, more conditions, we provided hot shoes. You learn from mistakes," she said.
Lushaku-Sadriu has given details on how much and how the teaching process will be continued. According to her, the children will be delivered to school before 8 o'clock. "Then breakfast will be eaten and the basic curriculum and homework will continue. Then there is lunch, entirely financed by the Municipality of Pristina and then with other sports activities, art and music and other activities... within the framework of the general plan", he said.
According to her, all schools in this process will have different specifications and the school councils will choose the activities.
It is planned that children in the first and second grades will stay in school shorter than those in the third through fifth grades. According to her, schools cannot take responsibility for keeping first grade children for eight hours.
Lushaku-Sadriu said that the central kitchen that currently supplies the gardens has hired the necessary staff and bought the right tools to perform the service.
She said that schools will be supplied with classroom lockers. 90 percent of homework is scheduled to be done in schools.
As she said, the teachers will be paid extra for every hour above the norm and that the physical education, art and music classes have been removed from the teachers of grades 3-5, and that these classes will be held by professionals in the afternoon hours. She said that there are teachers who have expressed their willingness to work extra hours.
Regarding the decision of the Ministry of Education for parents to be subsidized to buy school books, Lushaku-Sadriu has said that this process will cost Kosovo more than if MESTI would supply the books itself. She called the "repetition of last year's wrong practice" doubly wrong.
The all-day teaching system will start to be implemented from September 2 in the schools "Faik Konica", "Xhemajl Mustafa", "Nazim Gafurri", "Qamil Batalli" and "Green School" in the capital.