Education Programme Reform in Jordan

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Education Programme Reform in Jordan Ms. Shorouq
Fakhouri Deputy Chief Field Education Programme
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Education Programme Reform

• The agency wide educational reform focuses on
  eight areas of reform
• Professional, qualified and motivated teaching
  force in place
• Evidence based policy making and informed
  decision-making at all levels in place
• Effective system to identify and support children
  with special educational needs in place
• Improved employability for TVET and school
  graduates
• Effectiveness and efficiency and relevance of
  education planning and management strengthened
• Curriculum supporting holistic approach to
  learning and personal development enhanced
• Educational governance policy and regulatory
  frameworks
• Partnerships and communication systems
  strengthened

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• Teacher policy
• Teachers are the most important single education
  resource in the system.
• Not only a question of teacher training.
• Need to ensure teaching is professionalized
  with appropriate recruitment, induction, CPD,
  career progression, and status.
• Need for strong, coherent agency wide systems and
  structures to enhance the quality of education.
• Need to empower the school from teachers upward.

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• Elements of the teacher policy
• An integrated qualification structure for the
  education systems (all teachers must be
  academically and professionally qualified).
• An induction program for the newly qualified
  teachers and teacher licensing system
• A comprehensive CPD frame work for structured and
  responsive training and support, and its
  acknowledgement in teachers performance
  evaluation
• A diversified career structure which facilitates
  the retention of the best teachers and provision
  of support to other teachers
• A comprehensive support system at school level
  experienced teachers, mentor teachers, head
  teachers
• A comprehensive support system beyond the school
  education specialists school quality assurance
  officers
• Looking at integration of pre service and in
  service , from quality perspective

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Reform in Jordan

• School Based Teacher Development
• The SBTD is the structured training to improve
  the teachers performance towards student centered
  approach.
• All training materials and resources were
  developed by HQ/Education Department and they are
  ready now to be distributed for the pretesting
  phase
• North Amman Educational area was selected to
  pilot the SBDT.
• Implementation will start next September 2012, in
  the five fields of operations

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Reform in Jordan Achievements

• January 2012 installation management training
  for head teachers to improve the managerial and
  leadership capacity of managers .
• Implementation of the new performance management
  system for head teachers and teachers in the
  Jordan Field.

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Next Steps

• Pretesting of the SBTD (School Based Teacher
  Development) training materials and resources in
  April 2012 in three pilot schools.
• A workshop, led by HQ/ EDU Department will take
  place in North Amman area targeting the
  Head/teachers in June 2012 on the implementation
  of the SBTD
• Start implementation of the SBTD at North Amman
  Area September 2012

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Thank You!