The Future of Education

The pre-primary grade Core Curriculum of Kosovo is a document designed in 2012 by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology in Kosovo. This document provides help on implementing the Kosovo Curriculum Framework, which was approved by the government in 2011. As a new approach in education this document represents a new challenge for teachers of preschool education. Kosovo is constantly working to reform the education system in order to improve the quality and responds the demands of the 21st century.

The Core Curricula is structured and then built based on a system of six key competences. The aim of this study is to analyze the first impact of this document in the pre-primary classes, seven curriculum areas that are very different from the other curriculum the teacher has used so far.

The qualitative research of this study has been done and supported by participation of four teachers. It was developed a questionnaire with substantive questions about how they are using the Core Curriculum and the impacts of integration of curricular fields in children's play. For better analysis of data is also developed a cycle of observations into four pre-primary classes.

Data Analysis concluded that the process of implementation of the Core Curriculum has given a first impact in the way how the teacher organizes the curriculum, prepares the material, starts the process of observation, evaluates children’s work which is very different compared with the past curriculum.