Participants in the Educational Development Conference: Developing the potential of the teacher and promoting positive competition among students

Damascus-Sana

During the first day of the educational development conference held by the Ministry of Education in cooperation with the Ministry of Higher Education, the participants discussed the future educational vision to strengthen the building of man and the homeland, the future national strategy for education in Syria and the requirements of improving the quality of education in the light of the challenges of the twenty-first century in addition to the reality of vocational education and international trends. Contemporary Early Childhood.

Participants in the conference held at the Conference Palace in Damascus until the 28th of this month presented a series of researches and papers on the importance of institutionalizing alternative education in Syria and linking it with formal education and guidance policy in the Syrian education system and prospects for its development, ethics of education in Syria and organizational management culture and its role in improving The quality of administrative performance of workers in the Ministry of Education and the development of mechanisms to select educational leaders in the ministry and the role of NGOs in achieving the goals of sustainable development in addition to the use of social networking site Facebook in support of education services Be aware of the role of the teacher and the components of the curriculum in the changing world.

In their interventions, the participants called for the need to develop the potentials and talents of the teacher and focus on the value system in education and to promote positive competition between students and the need to link ethics with the economic and social reality of the teacher and the development of the exam process so as to focus on measuring the skills of students.

Dr. Andrei Emelinov, Director of the International Cooperation and Public Relations Sector in Russia, pointed out that despite the different cultures between countries, education systems in all countries seek to achieve the goal of sustainable development, saying that cooperation and coordination between the participants contribute to the achievement of universal education at an affordable cost.

Emilinov stressed his country's readiness to help Syria in the field of education through the exchange of experiences in this area, noting that there is a lot of work to be done to overcome the difficulties and problems facing the educational system, noting the great demand for learning the Russian language in Syria, which has become very popular.

From China, the expert in higher education Yao Hogan expressed appreciation for the efforts of the Syrian government in the reconstruction of education in Syria and the future plans it is developing to achieve the SDGs, outlining a number of cases that contributed to improving the quality of education in his country.

Abdul Hakim Al-Hammad, Deputy Minister of Education, talked about the efforts exerted by the ministry to address the problems in the educational sector, pointing out that the most important areas to focus on are the preparation of the teacher and the learner and attention to life skills and volunteerism and the establishment of a loving generation for his country that respects its national constants.

In turn, Dr. Saeed Khorasani, Assistant to the Minister of Education for Vocational and Technical Education, reviewed a set of concepts and definitions related to alternative education and the challenges facing the current education process from dropouts, children and youth from asylum countries and educational and educational problems that emerged as a result of the war, pointing to the high dropout rates, especially in the stage of education. In 2017, it reached 3.6 percent in 2010, up from 3.6 percent in 2010, high school enrollment and drop-out rates for periods ranging from one month to a full school year, and high illiteracy.

Khorasani reviewed alternative education programs in Syria for those who missed educational opportunities, such as Class B curricula, prepared by the Ministry of Education for basic subjects, in cooperation with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) aged between 8 and 15 years.

In turn, Dr. Riyadh Tayfour, Assistant to the Minister of Higher Education, pointed out that there is a plan in the ministry to review the reality of vocational education and amend the mechanism of admission of students in various disciplines and legislation and laws in this area.

The President of the Damascus Teachers Association, King of the Kingdom, stressed during the session the necessity of paying attention to the teacher as a basis for the educational process and sorting and identifying the problems facing the education sector in various aspects and exchanging views and experiences from specialists and academics on possible solutions to these problems according to the current potential and the requirements of the reconstruction phase. And the city and meet the needs of each of them with priority to vocational and technical education and the development of general educational policy for education in Syria to ensure the achievement of national belonging on the one hand and keep pace with the accelerated knowledge development on the other.

From the Faculty of Education at the University of Aleppo between Dr. Haitham Abu Hammoud that the educational process in all its components is one of the pillars of national security, which determines the level of the state and the progress and continuity and therefore the educational policy is not a separate part of the general policy of the state, pointing to the need to formulate an educational philosophy, especially Arab Syrian take educational variables Contemporary World.

He called for the formulation of an educational philosophy that reflects the state's aspirations and future aspirations through the characterization of features and the representation of the behavior of the learner to serve as a road map that defines the nature of values ​​and limits of knowledge that the learner can possess.

The activities of the educational development conference held by the Ministry of Education in cooperation with the Ministry of Higher Education kicked off this morning at the Conference Palace in Damascus under the title of a future educational vision to strengthen the building of man and the homeland.

Helena Indian and Sakina Mohammed