Transcript Lithuanian Education System

Lithuanian Education System
University
College
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Vocational
school
Gimnazija
Upper secondary education
Lower secondary
school
Primary school
Pre-primary preparatory education
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Adult education
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Pre-school
education
Special education institutions
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Youth school
Age
School year
compulsory education
Primary education curriculum
• Moral education
• Lithuanian language
• Foreign language compulsory from the 4th year
(from 2000-2001 schools may choose to offer early foreign language teaching starting
from the second year;
in 2006 a ministerial order approved An Implementation Programme of
Compulsory Early Language Teaching according to which all pupils in their second
year of primary education will learn a foreign language)
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Perception and understanding of the world
Mathematics
Arts and technologies
Music
Physical training
Lower secondary education
• Lower secondary curriculum from 5 to10 forms
• In lower secondary, youth schools, gymnasiums and vocational
schools
• On completion of lower secondary programme the pupils may
choose to take an external qualifying test of attainment in two
subjects (mathematics and mother tongue)
Lower secondary curriculum
• moral education (religion or ethics)
• the Lithuanian language, native language (for national minorities),
two foreign languages,
• mathematics
• Natural sciences (Nature and man in forms 5-6, biology and physics
form 7, chemistry form 8)
• Computer science,
• History, civic education, geography,
• Arts, music, technologies
• Physical training
Upper secondary education
• On completion of lower secondary curriculum
• A two year curriculum for the 11-12 forms
• Secondary schools, gymnasiums and vocational schools
• After completing secondary education curriculum secondary
education level is attained
Reform in curricular diversification
at upper secondary level
• as of the school year 2007/2008 curriculum is offered by way of
individualized provision
• 60% of the curriculum is made up of the core curriculum
compulsory to all pupils, while the rest pupils can choose of their
own accord
Upper secondary education
In the course of two years of upper secondary education
students learn from 9 to 13 subjects;
Students may choose to learn compulsary subjects either level
B ( involves only basic knowledge of the subject) or level A (is
oriented towards deeper and wider knowledge of the subject)
Upper secondary school-leaving
examination
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national state examinations
– pupils’ scripts are marked by external examiners
– Normative assesment is used and results are ranked on 1-100 point
scale
school-based examinations
– pupils’ scripts are marked by the school teachers on the basis of
criteria defined by an external body - the National Examination
Centre (the scale is recorded on 10 point scale)
both types of exams are set by an external body - the National Examination Centre
the Lithuanian Language: one compulsory
examination
To get school leaving certificate 3 obligatory examinations should be taken
Maximum number of examinations each student can take is 6