{"id":3159929,"date":"2022-02-04T10:42:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T10:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webalkans.eu\/education-for-all-in-kosovo\/"},"modified":"2022-02-04T10:42:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T10:42:13","slug":"education-for-all-in-kosovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webalkans.eu\/en\/education-for-all-in-kosovo\/","title":{"rendered":"Education for all in Kosovo"},"content":{"rendered":"\nEU project for inclusive education in Kosovo offers support to children with special needs and from vulnerable communities.\r\n\r\nArti is a 12-year-old boy who is stubborn about his independence. He lives with Down syndrome, a genetic disorder usually associated with\u00a0learning difficulties. It is only during his lifetime that Kosovan law has changed so that children with Down Syndrome and other children with special needs can attend mainstream schools. Students like Arti are now learning in a new era.\r\n\r\nIt can be challenging to include children with special needs in mainstream schools without a teaching assistant in class. As the school could not provide one, in Arti\u2019s case the role of teaching assistant was taken over by his mother. This lasted for some years until the EU-funded Education for All project stepped in to provide a teaching assistant for Arti and other children with special needs at his school. \u201cWith the help of the dedicated teaching assistant, Arti has managed to be completely independent from me and to develop his skills by fulfilling most of the objectives on his individual learning plan,\u201d says Arti\u2019s mother, Florentina.\r\n\r\n<h2><strong>\u00a0\u201cChildren with special needs face different challenges: some of them may have difficulties with reading, some with maths or with other subjects. We therefore devise and implement an individual learning plan for each child with special needs.\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\nArti is assisted in his day-to-day school activities by Xhenneta Shabani, a graduate from the pedagogical faculty who joined the project team as an intern. As soon as she began work, she got together with the class teacher to devise an individual learning plan for Arti and started on its implementation. \u201cChildren with special needs face different challenges: some of them may have difficulties with reading, some with maths or with other subjects. We therefore devise and implement an individual learning plan for each child with special needs,\u201d says Xhenneta.\n\nXhenneta helps Arti during class and is present all the time in the classroom along with the regular teacher. As well as working with Arti, she also supports other children. Her long-term professional plan is to work as a school counsellor, so the experience that she gained in this project is extremely valuable. \u201cPerhaps the best part of my engagement in this project is that when I start working as a school counsellor, I will be able to transfer all the knowledge from this project to the school that I am working in so also other teachers and children can benefit,\u201d she says.\n\nThe Education for All project is being implemented by the Czech non-governmental organisation (NGO) People in Need and partners from Kosovo. Njomza Emini from People in Need explains how essential the project is for children with special needs in Kosovo. \u201cWe had cases where schools were reluctant to admit children with special needs, as they need dedicated attention and schools lack the support staff. Even if they had time for them, the existing teachers lack specific training on addressing the needs of these children,\u201d says Njomza.\n\nHer project therefore runs a programme engaging 42 interns supporting 250 children like Arti who have special needs or are from vulnerable communities. The project also offers training to regular teachers on inclusive education of children with special needs. So far, the project has trained over 150 teachers and they are planning to train up to 225 by the end of the project. The training has included topics such as the principles of inclusion, communication with children with special needs, and identifying and managing cases of bullying. \u201cThe training was very much welcomed by the schools\u2019 managers and the teachers who participated,\u201d says Njomza.\r\n\r\n<h2><strong>\u201cThere are considerable gaps in inclusive education in Kosovo, and until our institutions manage to fill these gaps, the support from the EU and other donors is very important.\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n<strong>About the project<\/strong>\n\nThe EU-funded Education for All project was launched in 2018 and focuses on the right to equal education for children and adolescents with special needs and those such as the Roma coming from vulnerable communities. Funded under the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR), the project is implemented by the Czech NGO, People in Need, in partnership with Kosovan NGOs Autizmi Flet and The Ideas Partnership.\r\n\r\nIn devising the teacher training, the project benefited from the experience of the \u201cVarianty\u201d education department at People in Need in the Czech Republic and their use of the guidelines of the European Agency for Inclusive Education. \u201cThere are considerable gaps in inclusive education in Kosovo, and until our institutions manage to fill these gaps, the support from the EU and other donors is very important,\u201d says Njomza.\n\nThe project has another component focused on the improvement of inclusive education at an institutional level. Inclusive education platforms have been set up in each project location including local stakeholders such as the municipality, human rights organisations, and parents. The inclusive education platform in the town of Janjeva\/ Janjevo, has managed to secure the sustainability of the internship programme by including it in the municipal budget even after the completion of the project. 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