Students complete OSCE-supported teaching practice

Fourteen future teachers received certificates after completing a training course supported by the OSCE Mission to Skopje at a ceremony on 13 June 2013 in country’s eastern city of Shtip.

As part of the project, funded by the German Government, the students did a three-month practicum placement in a multiethnic environment.

During their practice, the students were placed at non-governmental organizations offering learning support to children of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds, with low academic scores and from economically and socially vulnerable families. The future teachers worked with small groups of children and their parents from different ethnic groups to get a better understanding of the children’s social background, their approach to learning and the reasons for potential obstacles to learning.

Since the start of the Mission’s project in 2009, nearly 450 future primary teachers have benefited from the seminar and practicum placements.