Tim za socijalno uključivanje i smanjenje siromaštva

Starting from this year, children from five and a half to six and a half years old, living in migrant reception centres in Serbia, will be included for the first time in the compulsory preparatory preschool programme. This year, the programme will include 38 out of 333 children already placed in primary schools.    

The Expert Manual for the Inclusion of Students Refugees/Asylum Seekers in the Education System, which stipulates that schools must prepare and implement Plans for Support of Migrant Children, has been adopted.

Schools are obliged to prepare programmes for adaptation and overcoming stress, as well as programmes for accelerated learning of the Serbian language during afterschool classes. This approach has proved to be very effective, and it has enabled all children to start speaking Serbian. The obligation of teachers is to plan and adapt teaching schedules, didactic materials, as well as teaching methods.

Around one thousand children were successively included in the education system of the Republic of Serbia, while during 2017 and 2018, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development in cooperation with UNICEF and the non-governmental sector, has been working on training teachers and strengthening their capacities.

Source: www.mpn.gov.rs