National Curriculum Framework for Teacher in August

Louis Zabaneh

On the topic of curriculum reform, the Ministry of Education is preparing to engage teachers in extensive and intensive trainings in August. The training will be geared towards delivering an in-depth understanding of the seven competencies outlined in the new national curriculum framework. The new curriculum was piloted during the last school year. Doctor Louis Zabaneh, the Minister of State in the Ministry of Education says the outcome of the training will be an increase in the performance of students across the country in the upcoming school year.

Dr. Louis Zabaneh, Minister of State, Ministry of Education

“Our new curriculum framework is focusing on competency based education and that entails working with mastery of competencies through knowledge acquisition, skills development and values and principles. So in the skills development portion of competencies we have activities such as sports being critical to the development of character and collaboration for young people. This  coming August we will have quite extensive and intensive training of our teachers who are very enthused about the change of the transformation of education which is now focusing on our children and activities that will excite our children in the classroom. So teachers can see a difference from this last school year where we piloted this around the country. This summer we are going to be focusing on particular areas of training, so you heard about the competencies the seven competencies in our national framework. We are going to be getting into depth of what those actually mean in terms of building mastery for our kids from preschool all the way up to university.”