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According to the Mehr reporter, Yousef Nouri, in Soraya’s program on the necessity of change in education, called the priority of education change and added: “We owe an educational system that has been a purely imitative system, despite the fact that the document of change in education And breeding was approved in 1990; This change may not have been due to the penetration of some thoughts and factors that were in the past. Of course, some measures have been taken in this field, and we have already made progress in some areas of education, which is a sign of the efforts of the past, for example, in the field of stem cells, the efforts of Engineer Ashtiani led to progress in this area.

Schools should not just think about the entrance exam

Nouri, stating that the education system and the education system are two-axis and separate subsystems in education; He said: schools should not only think about the entrance exam; Knowledge training Learn For the university and the entrance exam, it is a mission separate from our main goal, and from next year, these two systems will definitely be separated.

Nouri stated that we should not follow the entrance exam; He said: We should seek to educate students in several areas; In order for students to achieve the intended parenting patterns; They must have the opportunity to learn to achieve educational goals such as the field of art education, the field of aesthetic education, professional economic education and entrepreneurship education and technology or socio-political education.

We should not take student evaluation towards entrance exam evaluations

The Minister of Education considered the curriculum as the basis for achieving these goals and said: the curriculum is a much larger space than the textbook; It is part of the content of the textbook and we have to draw the right goal in the curriculum. We should not take student evaluation towards entrance exam evaluations; Therefore, evaluations must change.

Entrance exams and unfair competition in certain fields

In this part of Soraya Ali program عبدالعالی The director of the education network and the university professor attended the program and made a comparative comparison of the number of entrance exam candidates in each field separately, proving that only one hundredth of the entrance exam candidates reach the top and favorite fields, and practically ninety-nine. Percentage of entrance exam candidates are losers.

Referring to the importance of basic sciences, Nouri said: “We should pay more attention to basic sciences, of which knowledge-based sciences are one, while the statistics of participants in the 1400 entrance exam show students’ neglect of these fields.”

He pointed to the challenges of having an entrance exam in the knowledge education process Learn He said that the damage caused to students due to the entrance exam and the psychological effects it will have on students are significant; Students actually get sick; Many of these effects and damages are irreparable; Society must pay attention to the health of students; At the time of Corona, society paid attention to the physical health of students but did not pay attention to their mental health.

The Minister of Education stressed that we must teach literacy to students that knowledge Learn Make responsible; He said: we must have nominal literacy, research-oriented literacy, conceptual literacy, functional literacy and multidimensional literacy with social responsibility.

Following Suraya’s program, a street interview was broadcast with members of the community, which showed that only a small percentage of people remember the information from their school days. After that, in Suraya’s program, the words of the Supreme Leader of the Revolution in a meeting with cultural figures were mentioned, in which he spoke about the content Unprofitable And criticized the useless in textbooks.

Nouri continued: “According to the speeches of the leadership, the omissions that we are considering; We delete. Our plan for next year’s education system is to have mixed education; The sections we could not find in the textbooks; We use cyberspace and new ecosystems to present.

He stated that the leadership referred to the educational system based on the Iranian Islamic civilization; He said: In this desirable educational system, the teacher is the most important aspect; Because it is related to those who want to flourish the model of Islamic civilization.

Why should we pursue university and entrance exams?

Regarding the main program of the Ministry of Education, the Minister of Education said: “Our first issue is to separate education.” Why should we look for university and entrance exam? We have not separated the two yet, and the curriculum will not be separated from the entrance exam until we separate our educational content from the entrance exam. We asked both the Higher Education Council and the Textbook Writing Council to state this; Why there is material in the textbook that is not part of beneficial science and why it has not been removed from the textbook so far.

Nouri in response to the question of whether we can hope to remove unnecessary material in the textbooks for the academic year 1401-1402; He said most of the textbooks have been published for next year; But colleagues have been told the changes are needed; Review and report omissions to teachers so that they can teach students essential educational content instead of teaching useless ones.

The Minister of Education stated that our teachers are very good; “We have to have useful and practical in-service training for these teachers,” he said.

Nouri pointed out that from the first grade to the end of the sixth year, the evaluations are descriptive and up to the ninth grade, the entrance exam has no effect on children’s education; “We have to be facilitators and guides, and the elementary school has that capacity,” he said. In these stages, the main educational goals can be implemented. Although Corona came and we fell behind in achieving some of our goals and had a 63% drop in education; Descriptive assessment is an opportunity that I hope teachers will make good use of and improve students’ literacy.