Education policy to solve the problem of lack of human resources – Mehr News Agency Iran and world’s news
community group; Mehr news agency, The shortage of teachers, lack of attention to some transformational courses in schools, or the subject of high pilgrimage of textbooks are some of the issues that have been discussed more than in the past in recent years.
The spread of the corona virus and the virtualization of classrooms brought mobile phones and new technologies to the education system more than before and forced teachers to learn to teach with these devices.
On the other hand, the realization of many of the solutions of the document on the fundamental transformation of education also requires serious attention on lessons such as the lesson of thinking and media literacy or the lesson of defense preparation. While these days in the country’s schools, the teachers of other subjects have to teach these subjects as well in order not to leave these classes empty of teachers.
In less privileged areas, the conditions are more unfavorable. In areas where our educational system is facing a shortage of teachers, multi-grade classes or schools must be formed double shift has been Another issue of using expert teachers for transformative courses is less considered.
According to the goals and eyes size The document of the fundamental transformation of the educational system and according to the emphasis of the leader of the revolution to pay more attention to the jihad of explanation; Some subjects require more serious attention.
One of these courses is thinking and media literacy. Unfortunately, in some regions of the country, teachers who have no experience with this course are chosen to teach this course. A teacher who teaches physics is told to also teach media literacy. Or moderators teach this lesson.
Mohammad Mehdi Kazemi, the deputy of secondary education of the Ministry of Education, addressed this issue in a detailed conversation with Mehr news agency.
In general, do we have statistics of secondary courses that show how well the teachers are familiar with their courses in a specialized way and based on their educational qualifications? What program has been considered by the Vice-Chancellor of Secondary Education to give more special attention to transformation courses in accordance with the transformation document.
Our approach in secondary education is an educational approach; We are the educational assistant. But we cannot separate the issue of upbringing and education from the classroom and by teachers. The discussion of education and training is defined together and our approach when it is to acquire competence, we should pay special attention to this issue. We are pursuing the issue of strengthening the role of teachers in educational matters with the participation of all educators. Our physics teacher, math teacher, experimental science teacher, and our work and technology teacher, apart from providing their specialized training, can also use the educational approach mentioned in the transformation document, which we refer to as multi-dimensional education. have in their teaching.
We must be able to provide the grounds for the realization of this educational approach in educational processes, therefore, this is one of our important and serious approaches, and the educational vice-chancellor and trainer of educational affairs have a specific role in the school. He takes the regulatory approach in this direction so that he can follow the leadership of this issue at the school level.
The importance of thinking and media literacy lessons has become tangible for us more than in the past
We have some courses that are transformative courses in education. Among them, the lesson of thinking and media literacy, which is one of the important lessons of education and training, and today the importance of this lesson has become more tangible for us than in the past. After two years of non-attendance education, which happened inevitably, and according to the emphasis of the Supreme Leader on the issue of explanation jihad, it seems that the most important audience of explanation jihad is teenagers and students, that is, the students who study in the classroom today are the audience of explanation jihad. Therefore, we should take advantage of this opportunity and give more importance to the course of thinking and media literacy along with other important courses in this field, such as the course of defense preparation. These are among the lessons that can solve the context of our encounter with some problems such as soft war and hybrid war, and we should pay more attention to these two lessons in this regard.
The leader of the revolution complained that unrelated teachers are used in some subjects. Our priority is not to have unrelated teachers, especially in the first period of secondary school because the subjects are specialized, but in some less privileged areas that face a shortage of human resources. or in areas where it is not possible to send more troops due to the lack of student population, it is necessary for teachers to teach these courses in a multi-skilled manner, but specifically in some fields such as work and technology courses due to the importance of skills This field was approved and approved for the first time in Farhangian University in 1401, and in 1401 entrance exam, students were accepted in this field for the first time. For other disciplines, we are also looking for this topic, that by following Farhangian University and Shahid Rajaei Teacher Training University, we can train the specialist staff required for all subjects and reach the point where specialized and relevant teachers are trained for each subject. to be
TheHave these policies been implemented in the teacher recruitment test that was held and other tests that will be held?
Some of these titles that we emphasized do not have an equivalent in academic fields. For example, there is no equivalent for our work and technology course, and according to our curriculum, there is no university field of study to say that graduates of certain fields can teach work and technology courses.
For the defense preparation course or the thinking and media literacy course, some fields may have commonalities with these courses that we can adapt, but we have this limitation. Therefore, our effort is to be able to use the capacity of Farhangian University or to empower current teachers by holding in-service training courses to provide the basis for teaching these courses. But in the recruitment tests that have been held and will be based on our needs, we suggested that this happen. We also had limitations that existed in some regions, for example, we tried to prioritize the removal of multi-grade classes and mixed classes, and it is natural that the priority of training and providing human resources in this sector is one of our priorities, so that we can provide the context for this issue and suit To have the fields needed to recruit our forces.
After the ranking, we saw a wave of teacher retirements, and the Ministry of Education has asked teachers about to retire to delay their retirement. In which grade and in which provinces do we face a shortage of teachers?
Regarding the discussion of human resources, our priority is to attract us in such a way that measures are taken in areas where we do not have teachers, and considering that we are considering eliminating mixed classes. Except for 5 provinces, in the rest of the provinces, we had a very limited number of mixed classes in the first secondary level, and after that, the number of students in these classes and the classes in nomadic areas and rural areas is very small, but we are looking to organize this issue by providing Manpower in the same area can be solved either by changing schools in two shifts or by moving students to two adjacent areas with a distance of less than five kilometers.