Two teacher training workshops are held in Bitola, fYR of Macedonia

4-5 October 2008

The last two Workshops for the Albanian and Macedonian language edition of the JHP workbooks were held on the 18th and 19th of October, in Bitola. They gathered a total of 34 teachers, primarily from the central and Eastern part of the country, Skopje, Stip, Kumanovo, Strumica, Veles, Kavadarci, Kocani, Gevgelija and Kriva Palanka.

As in Struga, participants were introduced to the project, its materials and methodology, as well as activities up to date, by teacher trainer and local language editor Irena Stefoska. Following the initial introduction and discussion, teachers were presented with two model lessons. One was designed and presented by history teachers and teacher trainers who participated in previous JHP activities. The second model lesson was presented by professional teacher trainers. The goal of the second model lesson was once again, to primarily focus on the methodology of participative teaching, while utilising the JHP teaching materials.

Participants were also asked to design their own model of a lesson, while using documents from the Workbooks. Training activities were completed with an overall discussion, conclusions and evaluation.

The final event of this phase of project implementation will be a Regional Conference to be held in Ohrid on the 21 – 23rd of November, 2008. The Conference will gather history teachers from all over the country, as well as from the region, Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus and Kosovo. The event will be followed by a press conference in Skopje, on the 24th of November at 11am.