In the future, the class teacher will have the obligation to monitor the child's social life, as well as his mental state, according to an announcement from the Ministry of Education. Criticisms are coming from educators.
All those elements that characterize a child, the class teacher will have to record in written form, this is a novelty in the education system announced by the responsible minister Slavica Đukić Dejanović.
"The class teacher has this obligation and has been doing it until now, but now those administrative measures are much more precise, to monitor the children's achievements not only in terms of achieved success, but also their governance and behavior." His mentality, which is characteristic for that school environment. What is his social life like, how does he hang out with children, how much empathy does he have, how ready is he for some kind of solidarity? All those elements, which characterize a child, are actually recorded by the class teacher in written form," Đukić Dejanović clarified for TV "Prva".
They know them by heart.
Although teachers cannot know the soul of each of the 30 students, says the minister, the class teacher and others, how can they.
One of the novelties in the education system will be that, in addition to monitoring the progress of students' knowledge, teachers will now also have to monitor what is happening with their students in terms of psychological characteristics and have the obligation to report this to parents.
"Class teachers, teachers, professors, tutors... perform the most important work in the educational system. "After the May tragedy, we have an obligation to make children's safety one of the first requirements that we must all work on together," says Đukić Dejanović.
What is the goal?
Professor of English Marina Raičević for "Danas" stated that at the beginning of next month, educators in Serbia will receive increased January salaries, while the salaries of class teachers will be especially increased, as the allowance for seniority has been increased from four to seven percent.
"We will get another role - recorder of data concerning students, or, in short, file writer." These days we learned from the Minister of Education that there are four types of children: average children; children who are withdrawn; children who are very open and children who are prone to create incidents," Raičević points out.
However, he does not know what the writing of the file will look like.
"I don't know exactly what the goal is, but it seems to me that educators will be a target again due to the imposed obligations and responsibilities," Raičević pointed out. In mid-December, due to frequent reports of bombs in schools, there were hints that we would be given training by police officers, which should include access control measures, a preventive inspection of the premises of the institution, as well as the definition of a safe place. If we go through this training, we will be able to proudly point out that we are superhumans ready for anything and everything".