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Capacity building stands at the heart of the ValuED project, ensuring that teachers, school leaders, and teacher educators gain the skills, mindsets, and practical tools needed to embed values-based, inclusive, and democratic education across Kosovo’s schools. The project takes a holistic and sustainable approach, targeting both pre-service and in-service professionals and strengthening the institutions that support them.
Capacity building stands at the heart of the ValuED project, ensuring that teachers, school leaders, and teacher educators gain the skills, mindsets, and practical tools needed to embed values-based, inclusive, and democratic education across Kosovo’s schools. The project takes a holistic and sustainable approach, targeting both pre-service and in-service professionals and strengthening the institutions that support them.
At the university level, the project builds the capacities of teacher educators to redesign courses, adopt participatory and reflective pedagogy, and model the values and competencies they aim to instill in future teachers. European partners provide expert guidance, enabling Kosovo’s faculties of education to align with EU frameworks and modern professional standards.
ValuED developed an integrated in-service teacher development program that equips educators with practical strategies for teaching diversity, fostering responsible citizenship, and integrating values into everyday instruction. This program combines workshops, mentoring, coaching, and school-based development activities, ensuring that teachers learn through real-life application rather than isolated training events.
School directors and management teams will also supported through a targeted capacity building program focused on creating democratic school cultures, strengthening inclusive school leadership, and developing participatory school improvement plans. These efforts ensure that entire school communities—not just individual teachers—benefit from the project’s vision.
By combining structured training programs, continuous mentoring, peer learning, and practical implementation in 20 pilot schools, ValuED creates a long-term, sustainable model for professional development embedded within Kosovo’s public institutions. The result is a strengthened education workforce capable of driving meaningful change and building classrooms and schools where every child feels valued, included, and empowered.
Teacher Educator Capacity-Building Programme
Teacher Educator Capacity-Building Programme
The first module of the Teacher Educator Capacity-Building Programme was designed and delivered in collaboration with KEC, reaching 40 teacher educators from UP and UPZ. Held from 16–18 October 2025 and facilitated by Prof. Rolf Gollob and Veton Sylhasi, the training built competencies for applying the RFCDC model, embedding values and ethics in university teaching, strengthening democratic classroom practices, and integrating diversity and participation into lesson design. The three-day training combined conceptual input, model lessons, micro-teaching, peer feedback, and practical redesign of existing university courses. Participants worked through values-based dilemmas, competence-oriented lesson analysis, mind-mapping for value integration, and reflective exercises. Training materials, observation tools, and a structured reflection process (“Tree of Knowledge”) were developed to support continued implementation.
Teacher Educator course review training
Teacher Educator course review training
As part of ValuED’s capacity-building efforts for strengthening the quality of teacher education, academic staff from the Faculty of Education at the University of Prishtina and the Faculty of Education at the University “Ukshin Hoti” Prizren participated in a series of workshops on Constructive Alignment, facilitated by Dr. Anna Aleksanyan from the University of Graz. The workshops introduced a structured approach to course design that ensures coherence between intended learning outcomes, teaching and learning activities, and assessment methods. Through guided exercises and practical demonstrations, participants examined how aligned course components contribute to more effective, student-centred learning.
In addition to the in-person session, a second workshop was delivered online, focusing on the application of the Constructive Alignment Matrix. Teacher educators worked in collaborative breakout groups to apply the model to their own courses, redesign learning outcomes, and review assessment strategies. This process supports ongoing programme reform and strengthens internal capacity for curriculum development. These workshops form an integral part of ValuED’s broader work to promote value-based, inclusive, and high-quality teacher education programmes across Kosovo’s public universities.
Democracy in School: From Idea to Action
Democracy in School: From Idea to Action
As part of the ValuED project, the Faculty of Education at the University of Prishtina launched a four-module workshop designed for pre-service teachers in Primary and Preschool Education. The workshop supports future teachers in understanding how democratic practices can be lived, modeled, and embedded in everyday school life.
The sessions introduce core elements of democratic culture—shared decision-making, fairness, participation, and collective responsibility—and translate these concepts into practical strategies for classroom application. Through discussions, group activities, and hands-on exercises, students explore what democracy looks like beyond theory and how it can shape inclusive and participatory learning environments.
Across the four modules, participants examine the foundations of peer support, experiment with age-appropriate democratic activities, and engage in role-play scenarios based on the ValuED manuals. The workshop also builds the groundwork for the upcoming school-based intervention component of the project, during which students will design and implement small democratic actions in real classroom settings.
This initiative strengthens pre-service teachers’ capacity to foster democratic, inclusive, and value-driven school cultures—supporting ValuED’s broader goal of advancing high-quality, values-based teacher education in Kosovo.
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