New National Curriculum and the Impact in the Education Sector of Kosovo: Implications for Successful Implementation

Abstract

In August 2011, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST) adopted a new national curriculum. Among other concepts, the Ministry committed to focus on learning outcomes, competencies, differentiated learning, and learner centered education in the new national curriculum. The impact of these changes rippled across the education sector requiring professional capacity building within the Ministry of Education, redesigning teacher pre-service preparation program, re-structuring teacher in-service program, innovating staff development and teacher mentoring for professional capacity building in schools, re-writing textbooks and creating supporting teacher resource materials. It was calculated that it would take ten years to implement fully these curriculum concepts. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the consequences of a Decision to create new national curriculum across the education sector and determine the best approach to implement it.

DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2014.v4n2p413