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Instead of trips: Unemployed guides will study the Bible and geography in schools

The Ministry of Education will train teachers who have been left without work due to the Corona crisis in the field of teaching in subjects such as Bible, English and tourism.

Guides will receive unemployment benefits from the employment service at the time of conversion, and are expected to join the education system next year.

"Some people dream for years of working in the field with a mission"

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Dana Yarkatzi

Wednesday, 23 September 2020, 17:13

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The Ministry of Education, together with the Ministry of Tourism, will train 250 mentors for a year to teach geography, English Bible and tourism and hotels. This is due to being out of employment due to the Corona crisis. The mentors will be trained in universities and colleges for teaching, They will be placed in the education system only in the next school year. Throughout the training process, the guides will receive unemployment benefits from the employment service, with the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Tourism and the Lottery financing the conversion.

Iris Wolf, senior director of training and specialization for teachers The idea and the training process. "Recently, since the Corona crisis has shaken Israeli society, attempts have been made to find opportunities and some of them to identify populations that have become job-seeking of all kinds.

We have established collaborations with the employment service and also with parallel government ministries to locate such populations. "

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A guide in Jerusalem (Photo: Shutterstock)

Minister Galant (Photo: Avshalom Shashoni / Flash 90)

According to Wolf, "Some people dream for years of engaging in a field with mission and meaning. Sometimes you have to tell a person that there is an opportunity, and he remembers a dream that lingered in him for years.

The Ministry of Education contacted the Ministry of Tourism and located a population of guides who bring with them professional and personal experience, "They deal with geography and the Bible and with all the accumulated experience and standing in front of an audience and the ability to guide, and we gain great people.

We did an interested conference and saw that out of 1,200 mentors, about 650 people expressed interest, after checking their degrees we found that 250 really fit us for the program.

That’s why we chose people who have a bachelor’s degree with a great affinity for the subject they are going to teach. ”

Wolf added that the mentors will not be teaching assistants who will plug holes or assist the teaching staff, but will be teachers for everything.

New professional channel

Education Minister Yoav Galant said of the program that "the important venture to recruit 250 academic mentors to the education system is a quality boost that enriches educational institutions with new teachers - but also rich in relevant knowledge and experience in diverse content worlds, and of course guidance and mentoring."

According to him, this is a complex period in which the Israeli economy is facing difficult challenges.

"We have found it appropriate to encourage such an initiative, which is not only an educational statement but also an extremely important social and economic statement."

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The Minister of Tourism, Assaf Zamir, who is also taking part in this program, said that the integration of guides in the education system is welcome both for them and for the students.

"The livelihoods of the guides were fatally damaged as a result of the Corona crisis. The collaboration with the Ministry of Education and the Employment Service creates an opportunity for those interested in a new professional channel. We will continue to produce solutions that will help guides and all tourism workers stay afloat during this period."

The Director General of the Ministry of Education, Amit Edri, who led the program said that “the quality of teaching is one of the important milestones in strengthening the education system.

In their educational work, teachers determine the future face of the system and the character of the graduate, so our educational policy is clear - investing in teachers and advancing their status.

In light of this, over the coming year the ministry headed by Minister Galant will lead a program that will focus its actions on advancing the status of the teacher.

These days, work teams are being set up to take care of its details. "

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