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VIII- THE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE

On 24 July 2012, the Commission of the Training Programs Accreditation entitled the CENTER OF EXCELLENCE, in the Faculty of Education and Philology, to train the staff of the educational institutions in 32 modules of about 95 credits for all the profiles of the teachers already in service.

VIII.1. The Mission of the Center:

THE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE intends to develop training and qualification activities for the teachers. It mainly focuses on enhancing teaching and innovation skills in education, in methods and practices used by the professional teachers, in rebuilding the social concept of the collaboration with school, etc.

The Center is the main training institution for the qualification of the teaching staff in the schools of Korça region and further. It has a continuous collaboration with the Directory of Education and the Education Offices in the area. It offers training programs for eight teaching profiles and helps them to improve their professional qualifications and apply them in their teaching experience.

The Center can be found within the premises of the Faculty of Education and Philology (the video conference room, nr. 334, 3^rd floor). It offers a modern infrastructure appropriate for the qualification trainings of the teachers in service. The trainings may be organized in other rooms: in the Faculty library, in the internet room, in the Laboratory of the Experimental Phonetics and Speech Pathology and in the Laboratory of the Foreign Languages.

The Center is managed by a qualified staff of experienced lecturers of each of the departments of the Faculty as well as of other educational and administrative institutions.

IX- ACADEMIC AND OTHER COOPERATIVE STRUCTURES

Faculty or other teaching and research structures	Faculty of Education and Philology, Fan S. Noli University
Other Cooperative Structures in and out the institution	Department of Language and Literature, Faculty of Education and Philology Department of Informatics, Faculty of Natural and Human Sciences Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Education and Philology
Other public or private enterprises	Educational Regional Directorate, Korçë

X-DESCRIPTION OF STUDY PROGRAMME

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  Length of studies 3 (three) years, 6 semesters, 90 weeks
  
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  Classes in auditoriums 2250; total number of credits 180;
  

Minimal week load: 25 classes

Type of activity and its defining symbol	Disciplines and other formation activities	ECTS	Total ECTS
General Formation Disciplines and Activities (basic)	Academic Study	3	33
	Educational Theory and Sociology	6
( Symbol: A )	Introduction to Psychology	6
	Psychology of Development	6
	Educational Psychology	6
	All-Incussive Education	6
	Children Social World	6
	Civic and Democratic education	6
Characterising Disciplines and Veprimtari Në Disiplina Karakterizuese Të Të Tëte	Albanian Language I	9
Activities	Albanian Language II	6
( Symbol: B )	Children Literature	6
	Mathematics I	6
	Mathematics II	6
	Integrated Sudies: Natural Sciences	6
	Integrated Studies – environment	6
	History of Albanian People	6
	Information and Communication Technology	6	89
	Child Artistic Formation	6
	Figurative Arts	5
	Motor Development and Learning	6
	Self-Care, (Hygiene, Safety)	3
Similar or Integrated Disciplines and Activities ( Symbol: C )	Special Pedagogy	6	21
	Communicative Skills Linguistic Communication Pedagogic Communication	3 3
	Methods of Teaching Maths	6
	Technologic Education	3
Elective Disciplines ( Symbol: D )	School Psychology History of pedagogic thought	6	6
Other Disciplines ( Symbol: E)	English for Specific Purposes I	6	24
	English for Specific Purposes II	6
	Sports	6
	Practice	6
Thesis Preparation ( Symbol: F )	Thesis Preparation	7	7
		Total	180

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  EXPLANATION OF ACRONYMS
  

Letters A- F stand for different formation activities according to the Decision of the Ministry of Education and Sports, Nr. 20 date 09/05/ 2008