Training courses on Class B curriculum targeting 400 teachers in Damascus countryside

Rural Damascus - SANA

The Rural Damascus Education Directorate, in cooperation with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), has started training a group of teachers and teachers who will be assigned to teach the curriculum, class B, to pupils, as part of the Ministry's plan to implement education delivery to all students.

Director of Education Maher Kamal Farag explained in a statement to SANA's delegate that the aim of the courses is to develop the cognitive and educational capabilities of teachers and teachers and provide them with modern methods that will motivate students to return to school and compensate for their educational loss in order to achieve the quality of the educational process.

He indicated that the training package for the developed class B curriculum, which is being trained within these courses, includes, in addition to educational skills, methods of providing psychological support, thinking skills, methods of building evaluation, modern strategies in education and the art of classroom management in ways that are attractive and favorable to students, in addition to making use of life skills, pointing out that The training will include about 400 teachers and teachers in most regions of the province.

For her part, Head of the Planning and Statistics Department, Tahani Safi, indicated that the number of courses is fifteen and are carried out by local trainers who have previously undergone the Training of Trainers course in stages, as the first of these courses was launched in the regions of Douma, Jaramana, Al-Tal and Sahnaya, to include the next stages in the rest of the province.

It is noteworthy that those covered by the curriculum of category B are students who have dropped out of schools for two years or more, who are over the age of eight and return to schools, where they are compensated within a developed curriculum that shortens every academic two years to one year.

Rehab Ali