Modernisation of the content of education in Kazakhstan

The starting point of our work was an overview prepared by the Eurydice network on the situation in Kazakhstan regarding four key aspects of quality teaching: national policy support to the promotion of excellence in teaching; the evaluation of excellence in teaching; the use of teaching performance in external quality assurance procedures and national rankings; and mechanisms to promote excellence in teaching at national and institutional level. Based on this overview – and on desk research on national and institutional initiatives to sup- port excellence in teaching and learning – the group identified the main topics it wanted to concentrate on and agreed on the working method during its first meeting in 2019 year. In all the teachers met four times. The major features of the work of the education were to: > listen to the most recent research results in the area of quality in teaching and learning; > hear from experts on good practices on institutional and national level; > listen to stakeholders’ views on the subject; and > intensively discuss and exchange opinions in and between meetings highlighting and examining the evidence to identify targeted recommendations.