Each school will evaluate and organize supplementary classes in relation to the structure of the students and their needs. Teachers have professional freedom when it comes to teaching and choosing methods, so here too they have the autonomy to estimate how many students they will send to supplementary classes in order to return to the regular teaching process as efficiently as possible, said acting director of the Institute for Education Zoja in Boja jutra Bojanić Lalović.
She said that the Institute, as an institution that primarily has an advisory role, forwarded certain guidelines to schools in order to support them in the organization of the work process in accordance with their competences, and one of the recommendations in the guidelines is that teachers use supplementary classes as a way to make up for what has been missed. and it is necessary for the achievement of continuity in the work, achieved through the reflection of supplementary classes.
"We did not go beyond the legal framework. The law states that schools are obliged to organize supplementary and additional classes and teachers do so, and the supervisors had an insight that this is regularly held. Our recommendation is that for supplementary classes they do not have to strictly and rigidly adhere to the rule that students who have difficulties in mastering the material attend those classes, but that all participants can attend so that the teachers can clarify the part of the material that is necessary to achieve that continuity in certain subjects," Bojanić Lalović explained.
He points out that it is known that one of the important factors for the achievement of quality knowledge is the prior knowledge of the students, and that if the previous period is taken into account, there is certainly something that would have to be compensated for in some subjects.
"We will send an explanation to the schools and organize a consultation where we will discuss what they expect from the Institute as an institution that participates with them in the organization of work".
Commenting on the statement of the president of the Education Union, Radomir Božović, that teachers and professors should report if someone puts pressure on them for extra work, Bojanić Lalović says that it confuses her, and that supplementary and additional classes are already held.
"We are now in a situation where the question arises as to whether schools fulfill their legal obligations," she concluded.
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