“Teacher Induction, Professional Development and Career Advancement Scheme” was enacted in September last year and despite the fact that the first year of the program was considered pilot and the program has been running only for a semester, teachers’ involvement in scheme activities is still high. 330 teachers successfully passed the subject exams and won the status of senior teachers.

The scheme transitive statute implies promotion of all the teachers who had passed the professional skills tests.

After the scheme enactment teachers successfully passing the subjects exams, became equal to the teachers with certified teacher status and won the status of senior teachers within the scheme.

Currently there’re 16339 senior teachers in the country. 6200 in-service teachers involved in the scheme have passed the professional skills test. In case of successfully passing the subjects tests, they’ll earn the senior teacher status.

“Teacher Induction, Professional Development and Career Advancement Scheme” implies the direct correlation between the professional development of teachers involved in scheme and their pay rise, additional boost for teacher motivation for passing all the levels and getting to the top level. Teacher evaluation takes place in schools, that contributes to increasing the school prestige and helps implementing the evaluation component that had been lacking in schools lately.

“Teacher Induction, Professional Development and Career Advancement Scheme” turned the successful instrument for measuring teacher professional development.