CURRENT ISSUES OF TEACHER TRAINING IN ALBANIA
Journal Title: Problems of Education in the 21st Century - Year 2011, Vol 32, Issue 1
Abstract
World society, technologies and sciences are changing very quickly. The school, as an educational institution is facing great challenges of the century. The school needs to change many components like curricula, teaching, strategies, learning techniques. By using a series of strategies, contemporary teaching needs to strengthen the learning environment and offer different models, in order to design proper curricula for all subjects, fields of study and levels. Based on some official data, empirical surveys, questionnaires, as well as data from the students’ results, there have been identified some problems in our school, concerning traditional and contemporary teaching and learning. The focus of the research is: teaching principles applied in school curricula in Albania such as student – centered teaching and future oriented one through the paradigms of interactive teaching and passing from traditional to contemporary teaching methods. This principles aim at developing students’ critical thinking and learning skills to educate students as lifelong learners. These principles and solutions are necessary to be known and to be applied in everyday process of teaching and learning, in order to improve their quality.
Authors and Affiliations
Irena Ndoci Lama, Artur Sula, Mimoza Gjokutaj
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