OUR individual assessment of newly appointed teachers started in schools in the Aegean, Crete and Peloponnese, and from mid-March the process will begin for teachers in five other education regions. To date, 1,200 kindergarten teachers, teachers and educators have begun the assessment. The project met with a reaction from trade union activists, as well as from teachers. For his part, his leadership Ministry of Education expresses determination by responding that “a start has been made and changing an ingrained culture such as that of teacher assessment requires patience, perseverance and time” because a high-ranking official of the Ministry of.

In particular, according to Law 4823/2021, the individual assessment of teachers is carried out by the principal of the school and the educational consultant. The first to be evaluated are newly appointed educators, teachers and kindergarten teachers who, in June 2023, will complete a two-year probationary period in schools and, in order to become permanent, on the basis of Law 4823/21, they must first be evaluated. Over the past two years, about 25,000 teachers have been appointed at two levels. However, due to a delay in the selection and placement of new Educational Advisers (about 800 people), the start of the evaluation is carried out by region and according to the time of their deployment.

Thus, since the first councilors were stationed there, the process began with the schools of the North and South of the Aegean, Peloponnese and Crete.

According to the Ministry of Education, until yesterday, 1,199 meetings of counselors with teachers, 255 lessons, in which 135 counselors for about 1,200 teachers took part, have already taken place in these four regions.

By Monday, March 13, the advisers, who are starting to work in five other regions, namely in East Macedonia-Thrace, Epirus, the Ionian Islands, Central Macedonia and West Macedonia, were supposed to hold their first meeting.

However, for their part, the federations continue their mobilization. In particular, the Board of the Hellenic Federation of Teachers (IOE) has announced three-hour work breaks for the first or second three-hour program of the school units for the whole of March. The shutdown also applies to the school schedule throughout the day (from 2:00 pm to 5:15 pm).

Accordingly, the OLME Board of Directors, in pursuance of the decision of the General Assembly of the Presidents of the Local Unions of Teachers (ELME), has announced a three-hour shutdown of the first or second shift from Monday, March 6 to Friday. March 10, in order to prevent evaluators from attending the course and other steps taken as part of the same process.