المملكة: Training, workshops and forums… “Education” announces the mechanism for calculating hours for development activities
You specified Ministry of Education The mechanism for calculating hours for professional development activities for male and female teachers, in a step aimed at enhancing the quality of educational performance, and enabling educational personnel to keep pace with educational and cognitive developments, by organizing the calculation of development hours for various approved professional activities.
Motivating teachers to take advantage of opportunities
The Ministry confirmed that the new detailed guide aims to motivate Teachersare able to benefit from various development opportunities inside and outside the education system, which contributes to improving learning outcomes and raising the efficiency of the educational process, noting that these activities are considered one of the most important standards for the professional promotion of teachers in the educational career ladder, in accordance with specific controls and precise quality standards.
The professional development mechanism includes a number of main types of activities, including Most notably training, Workshops, guided reading, participatory learning, forums, and knowledge production. A specific number of development points or hours are calculated for each activity depending on the type of activity and the nature of the beneficiary or implementer.
The training category includes both direct training and electronic training, where development hours are calculated according to the number of actual implementation hours for each implementer. As for workshops, Points are awarded according to the hours of implementation, while directed reading is credited with one point, four points for typical lessons, three points for field visits, and ten points for the “lesson research cycle,” which enhances the concept of cooperative learning and the exchange of professional experiences among teachers.
Conferences and preparing scientific papers
With regard to forums, they include conferences, educational meetings, lectures, and seminars, as Three points are awarded for each day for conferences, and two points for each day for educational meetings, while lectures and seminars are awarded two points for each activity carried out, with the aim of enhancing professional communication between teachers, exchanging best educational practices, and learning about successful experiences locally and internationally.
As for the knowledge production category, it includes the preparation of scientific papers, procedural research, and publications. Specialization and training packages, where ten points are awarded for a scientific paper or procedural research, and fifteen points for specialized publications or an approved training package, which contributes to encouraging teachers to contribute to the production and transfer of knowledge, and enhancing the culture of applied scientific research in the educational field.
Taking into account the fairness of evaluation and creating a renewed educational environment.
The Ministry confirmed that this system takes The fairness of the evaluation between the implementer and the beneficiary of the development activity, as the implementer can obtain additional points if the activity benefits more than one teacher, which reflects the impact of the effort expended in disseminating knowledge and expanding the scope of benefit.
She indicated that this organization comes within the framework of sustainable professional development that seeks to build a teacher who is a researcher, knowledgeable, and capable of creativity in a renewed educational environment, stressing that Professional development is not an option, but rather a mandatory path to ensure the improvement of education and update the skills of male and female teachers to keep pace with the requirements of the future and the national transformation in education.
Documentation is essential for organization and promotion
The Ministry stressed the importance of documenting professional development hours and activities through approved official platforms to ensure the accuracy of their calculation when promoting or differentiation, calling on all teachers to benefit from the portal Professional development for teachers and a guide for calculating development points available on the Ministry’s website.
The launch of this guide comes within the Ministry of Education’s direction to implement the best international practices in continuous professional development, and to achieve integration between training, research, and knowledge production, which contributes to building qualitative human capital that will lead the future of education in the Kingdom and achieve the goals of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 in the axis of education and skills.
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