Revised curricula to be circulated next year: Syria’s Autonomous Administration
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – The revised curricula will be circulated next year, and the current curricula in schools need further development, an official of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) said on Thursday.
Yesterday, the Education Board of the AANES held an educational workshop entitled “Practical Education and the Necessities of Activating it in Schools,” with the aim of qualifying educational observers and developing preparation plans.
The AANES’ revised curricula will be circulated in schools next year, and the existing curricula need further development to raise the scientific level in the region, Ahmad Abu Shaker, member of the Scientific Committee of the Education Board, said.
He added that the existing curricula have been practically reformulated and reviewed by experienced and highly qualified specialists, and the curricula in the AANES will be developed because the current ones have been taught for a long time.
Abu Shaker considered that every curriculum, no matter how completed, will have some loopholes and weaknesses, and it needs more scrutiny and development to remove them.
On June 5, AANES’ Education Board decided to republish the subjects of sociology for the tenth grade and the Kurdish language for the sixth grade, after developing their content, and providing all corrections to the newly published materials.
On September 11, an official of the Autonomous Administration said the AANES Education Board owns curricula that represent its ethnic communities and it is about to unify and develop them [curricula].
Rajab al-Mushref, the co-chair of the Education Board, said discussions were held to fully develop the curricula in the three languages, which are Arabic, Kurdish and Syriac.
He told North Press that the Curriculum Institute and members of the Education Board evaluated the curricula with the aim of preparing them for students in a flexible, scalable and amendable manner, in line with international standards and levels of educational stages.
He pointed out that the mistakes that occurred previously in the curricula will be corrected, another will be deleted and alternative ones will be added, to suit the educational and mental level of the student.
On November 19, the Autonomous Administration said on its official Facebook account that a meeting was held between the Education Board and the Curriculum Foundation to discuss organizational issues and develop curricula according to the level of students and developments in the educational process.
As it added that they are moving towards developing curricula, in addition to refining the skills of teachers and raising the level of educational and teaching cadres, to create an educational process that is consistent with modern educational methods, according to the Board.
The curriculum of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is officially followed in schools of the AANES in addition to the special ones published by the AANES’ Education Board and Curriculum Foundation.
In September 2020, the Education Board of the Jazira Region announced the completion of training teachers of the 12th grade, and the preparation and publishing the curriculum.
Between 2015 and 2016, the AANES gradually started teaching its own curriculum in schools in areas run by it, and last year it published the curriculum for the twelfth grade.