MEHE Holds Periodic Meeting for Managers of Public Schools

Doha, January 08 (QNA) - The Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE) held the second periodic meeting for the male and female managers of public schools (boys & girls) for the academic year 2022-2023. Organized by the educational affairs sector in cooperation with Training and Development Center and Schools Evaluation Department, the meeting was attended by 230 male and female managers of schools, along with academic representatives. In her remark on this occasion, Assistant Undersecretary for Educational Affairs at MEHE Maha Zayed Al Ruwaili lauded the resounding success made by the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, and considered it a model in terms of its applicability as a model that is suitable for school field. She called on all workers at the school sector to cooperate for the sake of standardizing their plans and concerting their efforts towards the promised educational objectives to achieve the educational plans and programs, along with the education quality at all levels, whether evaluation and tests levels, academic achievement for students or development of the student character in the academic guidance, as well as safeguarding the national and Islamic identity. The educational affairs sector is ready with its all departments to support male and female managers of schools to operate, she said, including the importance of guiding the students towards choosing the academic tracks that are appropriate and relevant with the labor market. In addition, Al Ruwaili talked about the importance of providing the constant vocational development for the teachers through the individual efforts offered by the school internally, or through sharing the expertise with other schools. She pointed to the ensuing positive impact when the required support is provided to the teachers and school staff, underscoring the importance fostering the informed partnership with the students' guardians to be effective partners in upgrading their sons' learning, as well as promoting the role of the school's counselor as a focal point between schools and MEHE's departments to facilitate such a work. She announced that MEHE will soon issue the circulars pertaining to the timeline and details of registering the students in the public schools for the upcoming academic year 2023-2024, in addition to a series of beneficial educational programs laid out by MEHE, and called for the importance of schools' support to the MEHE in order to implement these programs. Director of Early Years Education at MEHE Maryam Ali AlNesef Al Boainain said that the strategic objectives of a program to be launched are to convert the schools into beacons of knowledge, provision of high quality and safe academic experiences for all students and empower the persons with special needs in pursuit of instilling the feeling of an active, self-educated, self-confident, citizen who is aware of his abilities. She added that such objectives will help students contribute to their community. For her part, Director of the Educational Guidance Department Maryam Noman Al Emadi spoke of a program to be launched and said that the program intends to develop and promote education to high levels and standards to achieve Qatar National Vision 2030, along with MEHE's vision that aims to provide permanent and innovative learning opportunity to the Qatari community, pointing out that the program seeks to refine the student's skills to be an actor in serving his country. Director of Educational Training and Development Center Eman Al Mohannadi reviewed the fields that should be developed to have a successful educational program, the important of which is the role undertaken by the teachers in students' learning process and skills of teachers. This is in addition to achieve the training system, design and implementation, stressing on the importance of establishing communities for vocational learning in order to empower the teachers and school leaders in Qatar to proceed with the innovation and apply the new techniques and initiatives through organizing periodic forums between teachers and school leaders. (QNA)