Amman: Ministry of Education has drafted an executive plan for educational interventions to address learning loss due Covid-19 pandemic-induced effects, in cooperation with Education and Youth Support Project funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The ministry, in a press statement on Thursday, said the plan, which spans over a 3- year period, aims to make specialized learning interventions to address educational loss, noting that it opened earlier this month a workshop on developing a national plan for remedial teaching 2023-2025.
Response to problem of the pandemic’s learning loss was completed by conducting national studies and assessments to design interventions based on data-based evidence that would enhance student learning and achieve the desired goals, the statement said.
During the past two years, the ministry implemented contingency plans to reduce education losses and avoid widening disparities in student opportunities and help teachers and parents to face the new pandemic-related difficulties, the statement added.
Jordan’s various sectors, institutions and state agencies are engaging with the beginning of the bicentennial in a comprehensive modernization project based on “qualified and efficient” human capital, the ministry said.
Success of this modernization process is linked to making “qualitative” transformations in Jordan’s education sector based on expertise in dealing with crises and adopting a participatory approach in all action stages, it added.
The ministry said its institutional work will shift from emergency plans implemented to address the pandemic’s effects to a new stage based on “strategic” schemes based on studies and evidence, in accordance with international best practices.
The plan’s leadership and creativity axis aims to preparing talents for future jobs requirements, as the executive program’s priorities for 2023-2025 feature multiple initiatives, primarily implementation of comprehensive activities to compensate educational losses, improve students’ performance in global exams, and train and build teacher capacities.
Source: Jordan News Agency