Representatives of 11 schools across the country took part in the conference “Competence-based approach in practice” between 3rd and 5th of December 2021. The conference was organised by the Bulgarian Safer Internet Centre at the national STEM Centre in Sofia.
The participants were introduced to the Holistic Competence model developed by the Centre and got to hear the inspiring stories of their colleagues from 90 High School “General Jose de San Martin”, where the model was first implemented and tested. Trainings for all five training modules of the Methodology were also organised for the participants.
During the training, the directors and the pedagogical specialist of the schools created their own visions for systematic and multidisciplinary building of key competences of their students through the educational content. They created plans for individual and combined lessons in order to implement their visions, created assessment tools, prepared strategies to involve parents as active partners in the implementation of the Competency-based approach and planned activities to help bring the school community together. The participants also shared their own experience and good practices and started a long-term cooperation for the integration of the competency-based approach in the Bulgarian educational system.
Despite the intensive work during the weekend, the educators were active, motivated, and created high-quality educational products. They were inspired by each other, by the collaboration inside and between the working groups as well as the exchange of experience with their colleagues from other schools. Their dedication proved that Bulgaria is ready for modernisation of its educational system in order to prepare more critically thinking, innovative, digitally competent and active citizens.
The conference participants were from the following schools: Primary School “Vasil Levski’, Primary School “Dimitar Talev”, High School “Lyuben Karavelov” and Sport school “Vasil Levski” – Plovdiv; Primary School “Hadzhi Gencho” – Teteven; High School “Bacho Kiro” – Pavlikeni; English Secondary School – Ruse; Primary School “Vasil Levski” – Belene; High School “St. Cyril and St. Methodius”- Kozloduy; as well as, 90 High School “General Jose de San Martin” and the National High School in Finance and Business – Sofia.
