Educational
System and
Curriculum
LESSON 6
KATERINA LOJDOVA
LOJDOVA@PED.MUNI.CZ
Basic facts – Czech
educational system
Compulsory school attendance
Literacy rate
Classification system: 1 – 5
Preschool enrollment is compulsory for children in their last year before
entering elementary school
Elementary education takes 9 years, usually from ages 6-15
Elementary education is divided into two stages: primary (grade 1 – 5)
and lower secondary (stage 6-9)
In addition, children have the option to apply for gymansium or
concerva¨tory
Basic facts
Upper secondary education can be general or vocational
Upper secondary education takes 3 – 4 years and is mandatory
Tertiary education: Bologna process
ISCED
https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/1-46002d8b18
Basic education
Educational reform: Act No. 561/2004 Sb.
Framework Educational
Programme for Basic Education
www.msmt.cz/file/9481_1_1/
Objectives of basic education
Create preconditions for pupils to acquire basic learning strategies and motivate
them to life-long learning
Stimulate and encourage pupils to creative thinking, logical reasoning and
problem solving
Guide pupils to engage in efficient, effective, open communication on all
aspects of their life
Develop pupils’ abilities to cooperate and to value their own work and
achievements as well as the work and achievements of others
Guide pupils so that they should become free and responsible individuals who
exercise their rights and meet their obligations
Induce in pupils the urge to express positive feelings and emotions in their
behaviour, ways of acting and when experiencing important situations in their
lives; develop in them sensitivity and responsiveness towards other people, the
environment and nature
Objectives of basic education
Teach pupils to actively develop and protect their physical, mental
and social health and to be responsible for it
Guide pupils to tolerance and consideration for other people, to a
respect for their culture and spiritual values; teach pupils to live
together with others
Help pupils to discover and develop their own abilities and skills
in the context of actual opportunities and to use their abilities
and skills in combination with their acquired knowledge when
making decisions regarding the aims of their own life and
profession
The Framework Educational Programmes
defines initial education as a whole.
The Framework Educational Programmes devone binding educational
norms across various stages: pre-school education, basic education and
secondary education (for pupils and students from 3 to 19 years of
age)are based on a new education strategy, stressing key competencies,
their interlinking with
educational contents and the application of acquired knowledge and
skills in practical life;
build on the concept of life-long learning
promote the educational autonomy of schools as well as teachers’
professional responsibility for the outcomes of the educational process.
Educational fields
Language and Language Communication (Czech Language and Literature,
Foreign Language)
Mathematics and Its Applications (Mathematics and Its Applications)
Information and Communication Technologies (Information and
Communication Technologies)
Humans and Their World (Humans and their World)
Humans and Society (History, Civic education)
Humans and Nature (Physics, Chemistry, Natural Sciences, Geography)
Arts and Culture (Music, Fine Art)
Humans and Health (Health Education, Physical Education)
Humans and the World of Work (Humans and The World of Work)
Key competencies
learning competencies;
problem-solving competencies;
communication competencies;
social and personal competencies;
civil competencies;
working competencies
Cross-Curricular Subjects
Cross-curricular subjects in the FEP BE are subjects related to contemporary
present-day issues and represent an important and inseparable part of
basic education. They represent an important formative element of basic
education.
This contributes to the pupils’ comprehensive education and positively
influences the formation and development of their key competencies.
Cross-curricular subjects represent a mandatory part of basic education.
Schools must include all cross-curricular subjects contained in the FEP BE10
into Stages 1 and 2 of education. Not all crosscurricular subjects, however,
must be represented at each grade level. It is the school’s responsibility to,
over the course of basic education, gradually offer pupils all thematic areas
contained in the individual cross-curricular subjects.
Cross-curricular subjects
Personal and Social Education
Democratic Citizenship
Education towards Thinking in European and Global
Contexts
Multicultural Edu cation
Environmental Education
Media Education