1. Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia Vision for an education that respects diversity
Regional Conference “Embracing Diversity through Education”, 6 November 2013
Note: The objective of this presentation is to describe very briefly what is the vision for inclusive education your country. The vision needs to have a timeframe such as year Please note, that the objective is not on what is the current situation, what has been done until now and what are the successes or failures. This session is about describing, depicting and focusing on what the country wants to achieve, on the vision that the country wants to reach.
Please focus on the most important topics that are relevant for your country. Please see the model in this presentation. Kindly note that this is just an example and that the situation of inclusiveness varies from country to country therefore adjustments, changes, adaptations are required.
The presentation is maximum 6 minutes, three slides of two minutes each.

2. VISION: ALL children included in quality Education
All children attend schools and learn.
Teaching and learning are adjusted to concrete child and his/her needs.
Monitoring and evaluation of inclusive education are in focus
When trying to write the vision, the question is “What is the result we want to create?”
Please summarize your vision in three main topics. In this example, the main topics that the vision contains are: Friendly schools to all children; Effective teaching and learning and Participation. In other countries, of course, other topics may apply.
Please write the description while keeping in mind the question “How do we know if we have achieved it?” This will help to provide a clear enough description.

3. Access to schools
All children from marginalized groups (Roma children, children with disabilities, first of all) are in non-segregated educational environment
Children with disabilities are provided with needed assistive technology
Drop-out is decreased

4. Quality of teaching and learning
Quality of teaching improved for all children. Different kinds of support for learning are provided to all children who have additional needs (IEPs, pedagogical and personal assistant, AT). Peer learning is developed. Assessment of student achievement is formative and motivated.
Teacher team work is organized and oriented on child benefits. Schools are open for sharing good practice and horizontal learning.

5. Monitoring and evaluation
Framework for monitoring of inclusive education is in use. Self-evaluation and external evaluation of school quality are in function of improvement of inclusive education.
Different actors carry out monitoring and evaluation of inclusive education (Parliament , Independent bodies, NGOs) in order to further improvement.