During consultations, experts can offer tailor-made solutions for a specific school, its spokeswoman Lucie Šplíchalová announced this week on behalf of NPI.
According to the institute, it is now taught in about 3,000 schools under a modified educational plan with an emphasis on computer science. According to the Ministry’s statistics, there are approximately 4,200 primary and 1,300 secondary schools in the Czech Republic. Primary and secondary schools will gradually be involved in the teaching of the new informatics from September 2021.
NPI helps them with their preparation with individual consultations, training and the preparation of other methodological materials. Methodological support is financed by the institute with money from the National Recovery Plan (NPO).
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The new informatics is supposed to focus on the development of skills associated with digitization, thematically it deals with information systems, working with data and programming.
For all schoolchildren in the first grade of elementary schools, the teaching will have to be modified from this September. According to the new educational programs, students in the second grade of elementary schools must start studying from September 1, 2024, for high school students it will be mandatory from September 1, 2025.
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One of the institute’s experts consults the director or other school staff during the allotted time. Schools can order a consultation via a form on the revize.edu.cz website or at the NPI regional office.
Principals of schools and coordinators of school educational plans are most often interested in the advice of a pedagogical institute expert, as consultant Jaroslav Jirásko said. According to him, the most frequent topics of the meetings include the introduction of digital skills into school curricula or the distribution of the number of hours devoted to informatics and digital technologies.
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The Ministry of Education and the NPI are now preparing the so-called major revision of the framework educational programs (RVP). The government promised to revise the curriculum for primary and secondary schools in its program statement. According to the cabinet, the emphasis should be on civic education, ethical education, financial and media literacy and critical thinking in the future. The new curriculum will be mandatory from September 2025 for pupils in the first and sixth year of primary schools.
By 2024, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports should distribute CZK 4.3 billion from NPO to the digital education of schoolchildren, its spokeswoman Aneta Lednová said earlier. The aim is, among other things, to support schoolchildren’s ability to work with modern technologies, to improve school equipment and to establish a technology fund that schools will lend to students in need. The office manages subsidies from NPOs in the amount of 23 billion crowns. The Czech Republic should receive approximately CZK 180 billion from NPOs.
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