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Moldova Revamps Schools: Tech & Future Skills Focus

Starting in 2027, Moldovan schools will implement a new curriculum that emphasises relevant and engaging subjects, digital textbooks, and career exploration for students.

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This initiative aims to prepare students for the professions of the future.

Tatiana Stahi, the principal of a middle school in Slobozia-Dușca, Criuleni, acknowledges the importance of the new concept, particularly in the digital age. However, she underscores the need to equip schools with new technology and resources, as well as improve student learning environments.

Stahi emphasises the crucial role of providing schools with digital textbooks, ideally those with scannable features. She also highlights the challenges associated with merging subjects into integrated disciplines, particularly if robotics becomes a mandatory or elective course. Schools would require the necessary technology to effectively implement such changes.

The pilot schools participating in the first stage of the curriculum rollout will have a set of core subjects. These include Romanian language and literature, a foreign language, Romanian and world history, and a new integrated science course for grades one through seven that combines physics, biology, and chemistry.

Elena Efros, the principal of a high school in Măgdăcești, Criuleni, and a physics teacher, expresses concerns about the feasibility of this plan. While she is willing to undergo professional development courses, she believes such training may not be sufficient to prepare teachers to effectively teach these new integrated subjects.

Efros commends the emphasis on literacy and intercultural dialogue within the new curriculum for Romanian language and literature. Oxana Vapnișen, another high school teacher, shares this sentiment.

The Ministry of Education and Research (MEC) unveiled the new national curriculum concept on Thursday, May 16th. The proposed changes involve two main approaches: maintaining existing subjects while integrating new ones. This means Moldovan students could begin studying subjects like entrepreneurship, ecology, media literacy, and health education as early as 2027.

The new national curriculum is open for public debate until August 2024.

Translation by Iurie Tataru

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