The Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE) organized an introductory meeting on the admission of 3-year-old children into the state-funded kindergarten that was supervised by Early Years Education Department in collaboration with Training and Educational Development Center.
The meeting discussed the major aspects of this project, modes of implementation and accentuated the significance of early years education and its impact on developing children’s skills to succeed in the subsequent educational levels and complete this education, especially that children’s engagement in early years of education would spur their educational motivation and open prospects to maintain this motivation throughout their lives, as well as develop their propensities for education in early childhood constituting a largest investment for the renaissance of states.
Assistant Director of the Early Child Department Dhabia Al Khulaifi said the decision to add pre-kindergarten level to the state-funded kindergarten was made because of the significance of early years of education and its positive impact on children’s life, as well as its crucial role in achieving highest levels of quality in futuristic academic achievement.
The project is poised to be launched with the advent of the academic year 2023-2024 to encompass a sample of pilot kindergartens in the areas that have high population density, Al Khulaifi outlined, pointing out that all information pertaining to data of births has been received, as per municipalities and subsequently the appropriate buildings that contain 12 classes have been selected and varied between two kindergarten for males, namely Abu Hanifa Model Independent Kinder Garten of Doha City and Al Manar kindergarten in Al-Rayyan, alongside two kindergartens for females, namely Al Khwarizmi Kindergarten in Umm Salal and Zekreet Kindergarten for Girls in Al Daayen Municipality.
Predictions confirmed that the children achieved high learning outcomes through maintaining their attendance and benefit from all educational services afforded to them that aim to educate children on the fundamental care skills and self-reliance, in addition to optimizing their knowledge and social predisposition for learning, perpetuating good behaviors and customs in children, weighting their awareness of others, augmenting their linguistic lexicons and developing their skills in communication and speech, as well as building knowledge and core skills to be ready for the upcoming phase, she said.
With regard to the educational curriculum pursued in kindergarten level, Director of the Early Child Department Fatima Al Qahtani said the department has cooperated with a contingent of kindergarten mentors, along with a qualified team from the education field to lay out class plans and a guide document for female teachers which includes the daily programme and appropriate learning strategies for the age segment by counting on local and global curricula in preparing them based on children’s growth characteristics to be positively reflected on children’s characters, their knowledge and skillful outcomes.
She noted that the Early Child Department is committed to preparing an appropriate and wholesome climate conducive to education which abounds with numerous opportunities and primary experiences utilized in helping the children to properly grow and qualify them for engagement in the outer world within a rigorous educational framework which is based on exploration.
In addition, Training and Educational Development Center discussed the general framework of the training programme for pre-kindergarten level which aims to supply kindergarten’s female teachers with essential knowledge and skills to discharge their functions in the pilot phase of kindergarten for the academic class 2023-2024.
The center has coordinated with the Early Child Department and kindergarten to provide 7 training themes to kindergarten’s female teachers and coordinators (Pilot phase with 25 teachers and coordinators) dedicated to 4 state-funded kindergartens in collaboration with a host of partners, namely Hamad International Training Center (HITC), in pursuit of providing first medical aid, in addition to partners from the MoEHE’s departments.
Source: Qatar News Agency