AMMAN — The head of the Higher Council of the
National Center for CurriculumDevelopment (NCCD), Azmi Al-Mahafzah, said that the center has started
revamping the English language curriculum taught in high schools.
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He told
Jordan News that the center will
“develop the curriculums of all school subjects, including the curriculum of
the English language”.
“The framework of the revamped English language
curriculum is ready, and it has been approved by the ministry’s education
council, and now it is time for writing the textbooks,” he added.
A curriculum writing bid was published on Monday by
the center, announcing that it “intends to purchase a license to use the
content of a new textbook series and supplementary learning resources to teach
and learn English as a foreign language for grades 1–12.”
Mahafzah explained that the center tendered a
similar bid a year ago, but that only three companies submitted proposals. “So,
the tender committee decided to re-run the tender”, he said.
That is why the new curriculum will focus on addressing such deficiencies in English as a foreign language.
He explained that developing school curriculum is an
essential part of the NCCD’s work, noting that the center has been performing
the task since it was founded in 2017.
“The new English language curriculum should be
adapted to the local context”, he said. “All English language skills in the
current curriculum are weak.”
“That is why the new curriculum will focus on
addressing such deficiencies in English as a foreign language,” he added.
He also noted that teachers will be trained to teach
the developed curriculums efficiently.
Spokesperson of the Jordanian Teacher’s Syndicate
Nour Aldeen Nadeem said that teachers are the main component of any educational
process, but “they are exhausted and overworked and this prevents them from
performing well.”
“Teachers do not have time to address students’
problems, or to make curricular activities,” Nadeem said. “In addition,
classrooms are overcrowded.”
“No matter how much training teachers get, they will
not be able to perform well unless they are enabled,” he said, explaining the
term as giving teachers an “appropriate learning environment, and alleviating
the administrative burden”.
Educational expert and former NCCD head of the
Advisory Committee Thouqan Obeidat said Jordan “formulated a new philosophy, in
which it determined the values and concepts that should be presented to
students through curriculums”.
“Since the old philosophy has been changed, the
curricula should be changed as well,” he told
Jordan News.
He said he believed that although textbooks in several
subjects have been developed, they failed to mirror the curriculum and the new
philosophy. “Most changes are limited to textbooks only and cannot be seen as
real changes in the curriculum,” he added.
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