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Romanian Education System. Sight of Cluj. Streets in the night. Cluj Art Museum. Cluj Botanical Garden. Cluj by night. Buildings of Cluj. Tailor Tower. Streets of Cluj. Technical University. Cluj County School Inspectorate Building. Summary. The Education System in Romania
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Sight of Cluj Streets in the night Cluj Art Museum Cluj Botanical Garden Cluj by night
Buildings of Cluj Tailor Tower Streets of Cluj Technical University
Summary • The Education System in Romania • Priorities of the Education Policy • Cluj County School Inspectorate • Expertise in Project Implementation
Structure of the Education System Compulsory
Curriculum Framework • National Curriculum - Seven Curricular Areas: - Core Curriculum (75%) - School-based Curriculum • School Educational Offer - Extracurricular activities - Special Needs for students with deficiencies or high performance capacity • LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION • MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL SCIENCE • PEOPLE AND SOCIETY • ARTS • PHYSICAL EDUCATION • TECHNOLOGIES • COUNSELLING AND GUIDANCE
Class size, school year & timetable • Class size - depends on the educational level: • 15 20 25 … 30 • School year: • 34 to 36 weeks • starting date: September 15th • ending date: June 15th • Timetable: • 50-minute classes / 10-minute breaks • Morning or afternoon classes
Priorities of the Education Policy • Equal and improved access to education • High educational standards and training for a knowledge-based society • Decentralizing of the education system • Turning education into a basic tool in the modernisation process of Romania • Envisaging the investment in human resources as the most profitable long-term investment • Reconstruction of rural education • Combining excellence and general education in an efficient way • IT contribution to education • Enhancing the European dimension of education • Institutional development of permanent education
Ministry of Education NCC NSAE PEEAC NCPTST NCTVETD NCTEAD NCE County School Inspectorates TTH LDC LCSS Other units Schools Governance of the Education System • NCC – National Council for Curriculum • NSAE – National Service for Assessment and Evaluation • PEEAC – Pre-university Education Evaluation and Accreditation Commission • NCPTST – National Centre for Pre-university Teaching Staff Training • NCTVETD – National Centre for TVET Development • NCTEAD – National Council for Textbooks Evaluation, Approval and Distribution • NCE – National Centre for Excellence • CSI – County School Inspectorates • TTH – TeacherTraining Houses • LDC – Local Development Committee for Social Partnership in VET • LCSS – Local Council School Service
Administration council General Inspector Advisory board Control & audit Legal counselor Accounting Secretariat Deputy General Inspector Deputy General Inspector Deputy General Inspector Curriculum & inspection Evaluation & prognosis Development & community • Inspectors: • management & evaluation • private education • educational alternatives • teaching staff mobility • professional development • European programs • gifted students • Inspectors: • pre-school education • primary education • education for minorities • rroma education • special education • extra-school activities • curriculum subjects • Administrative staff • ICT development • Services: • school network & enrolment • teaching norms & retribution Cluj County School Inspectorate
The main objectives of theCluj County School Inspectorate • To ensure coherence between the national strategy and local education process; • To develop the implementation of local and regional programs; • To set up public education units – kindergartens, primary schools, gymnasiums and art and trades schools; • Together with the local public administration, to ensure high educational standards, as well as the development of the material resources in all schools, according to the present national standards; • To supervise, monitor, support and evaluate the activity of teachers of all subjects at pre-university level • To organize in-service teacher training courses for school teachers and managers in collaboration with the Teacher Training House • To develop curricular and extracurricular projects and activities at the local, regional, national and international level
Summary • The Education System in Romania • Priorities of the Education Reform • County School Inspectorates • School Management • Resources
Curriculum • National Curriculum: • Core Curriculum (75%) • Differentiated Curriculum – grades 9 & 10 • School-based Curriculum • Schools’ Educational Offer: • Differentiated Curriculum – grades 9 & 10 • School-based curriculum • Extra-curricular activities
Teachers • Initial training: • Higher education for secondary education • Pedagogical Lyceum for pre-school & primary • Professional development: • On the job confirmation (definitivat) • Didactic grade II • Didactic grade I
Class size, school year & timetable • Class sizes - depend on the educational level: • 15 20 25 … 30 • School year: • 34 to 36 weeks • 15th of September starting date • Ending date in June • Timetable: • 50 min. classes / 10 min. breaks • Morning or afternoon classes
Priorities of the Education Reform • Ensuring access to and improving quality of education for everyone • Rural area • Disadvantaged groups (Rroma minority and SEN) • Developing human resources for the knowledge society • The eLearning initiative • Reform of compulsory education • Development of the TVET
County School Inspectorates • To monitor the organization and operation of the pre-university education network and to inspect schools; • To ensure compliance with the law in the organization, management and provision of education; • To set up public education units – kindergartens, primary schools, gymnasiums and art and trades schools; • To propose to the Ministry of Education the local school network under their jurisdiction and the students’ enrolment plan;
To ensure, jointly with the local public administration, school attendance for the duration of compulsory education; • To ensure that schools are adequately staffed with teachers in accordance with the provisions of the Teaching Staff Statute; • To organize and guide the teaching staff's continuous training and professional development, research work and other complementary activities in pre-university education; • To ensure, jointly with the local public administration, the educational conditions as well as the development of the material resources in all schools, according to the national standards;
To coordinate admission competitions and graduation examinations in education units, as well as other school competitions; • To monitor all pre-university education activities and services provided by economic agents, foundations, associations, religious denominations and other natural persons or legal entities in the area under their jurisdiction; • To identify any infringements of the law and take such measures as the law provides; • To coordinate and guide the activity of libraries in the education units under their subordination; • To coordinate and monitor the activity of the Teaching Staff House.
School Inspection • Why? • To support schools and teaching staff to improve education & training activities • To support evaluation of the quality of the educational offer and the school performances of the students – at local, county and national level – by providing accurate information to the decision makers through the inspections reports
School Inspection • What? • The school performances of the students in comparison to the national educational standards; • The school’s methods to encourage and support students’ personal development; • The quality of the teaching staff activities; • The quality of the management and the efficiency in using the resources;
The quality of the curriculum, the quality of the extra-curricular activities and the ability of the school to implement the national curriculum; • School-parents relationship; • School-local community relationship; • Compliance with the in-force legislation, procedures, rules and regulations; • Students’ attitudes towards the education offered by the school.
School Inspection • How?
School Inspection • School Inspection Quality Ensuring System:
School management Director’s responsibilities: • To plan, organize, coordinate, monitor and evaluate the entire educational process in the school and the institutional development of the school • To manage the human resources of the school • To manage the financial resources of the school • To administrate the school
School management Main papers to be elaborated by the director: • The medium term (4-year) institutional development project of the school • The semester and annual evaluation reports • The annual management plan and the semester implementation programmes • Financial & material resources development projects • Annual school’s budget project