His Excellency the Minister of Education, Dr. Hamad bin Muhammad Al Al-Sheikh, met today, Tuesday, with a number of education supervisors from all over the Kingdom, and managers of education offices from education departments across regions and governorates to discuss the development of curricula and education plans for the next academic year (2022).
The Minister considered the supervisors’ valuable efforts in following up and evaluating the educational process during the Coronavirus pandemic, and distance education on the “Madrasati” platform, which has contributed towards improving learning outcomes. He stressed the Ministry’s focus on their integrative role in developing curricula and study plans.
His Excellency said, "The development process in the education sector is continuous, and the Ministry is looking forward to coordinating efforts to develop the professional performance of educational leaders, educational supervisors and education offices". He explained that the development processes include setting high-quality standards for selecting candidates for leadership roles in supervision departments and education offices; analyzing and studying the reality of education offices, and being aware of any shortcomings and addressing them.
The Minister Al-Sheikh added, "The three- semester system in the new academic calendar is an organizational tool, and a means to achieve the greater objective of developing curricula and study plans, adding new materials, and various applications and enrichment activities that focus on skills". He added that he is looking forward to the supervisors’ efforts in the next stage, which will focus on improving the Kingdom’s results in international tests, addressing the gap between the years on the educational ladder and the actual years of study, and enhancing basic skills in the educational process.
The Minister clarified, "The Ministry is working to empower supervisors in the Arabic language, mathematics and science subjects with quantitative and qualitative skills to reach positive results by students in the international, national and achievement tests, as well as intensifying the continuous follow-up of specialized units in education departments, in order to ensure the strengthening of teachers’ efforts in implementing effective teaching methods to raise the level of academic achievement of students, in addition to intensifying classroom visits for teachers.”
His Excellency stressed, " Any effort that is not reflected in the students’ performance in the classroom is of no value", noting that the ministry has worked on updating tools for evaluating the performance of educational supervisors, school principals, teachers, and managers of education offices, and linking them to the results of students to ensure the improvement of outputs.
After that, the Minister of Education answered the questions, inquiries, and suggestions put forward by the educational supervisors and managers of education offices participating in the remote meeting; their number reached 1410, with the participation of 30 educational supervisors and a manager of an education office who attended in-person from the Education Department in the Riyadh region.
