Self-evaluation in pre-school - situation, challenges

The quality of the work of pre-schools largely depends on the key actors - practitioners in the Child-care Institution (educators, professional associates). Integral mechanism that contributes to improving the quality of Child-care Institution is self-evaluation, which leads practitioners to understand, modify and develop their own practice. Providing the best stimulate environment for learning and development, fostering a holistic approach, providing a quality education is the primary goal of self-evaluation. How much and how it is practiced by practitioners, what are the obstacles encountered in its realization, what are the recommendations for its improvement are the key issues that we tried to answer in this paper. Here we present the results from a survey conducted with 115 respondent practitioners (educators, professional associates) in several Child-care Institution in Stip, Sveti Nikole, Radovish related with the subject of self-evaluation, the way how to make it, the steps and activities through which it passes, participants, commonly applied techniques and instruments for self-evaluation, problems and difficulties encountered in the process, gained experiences, challenges, and suggestions for its improvement