AMMAN — Director of the
Curriculum Department at the Ministry of Education Muhammad Kenana said that
the ministry began implementing its remedial education program in the Kingdom’s
schools on Sunday.
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The program targeted the grades 1–11 in the four main
subjects: Arabic, mathematics, English, and science.
The program will run from
August 15 to September 12.
Kenana explained that
the program will consist of three stages.
The first stage will seek to equip
students with basic skills and knowledge upon which they can build in the
coming school year and beyond.
He also said that the ministry is in the process
of finalizing the plans for the final two stages, which will be announced soon.
Media spokesperson for
the ministry, Ahmed Al-Masaafeh, said that the program was to help prepare
students for a return to in-person classes following two years of distance
learning.
Between August 1–14, teachers
had received a three-day training course, the spokesperson said, adding that learning
materials had been distributed on Sunday.
A large number of
students attended the program’s first day, Masaafeh said, and that all
participating schools had adhered to the COVID-19 health measures.
Vaccination
rates among public and private school staff are 83 percent and 90 percent
respectively, he added, and that, to date, 828,000 students have registered for
the program.
Executive Director of
the Development Coordination Unit at the Education Ministry Lama Al-Natour said
that the plan was fully prepared by the ministry to bridge the gap between
virtual and in-person education.
A fifth-grade student,
Rital Nasser, joined the program yesterday.
“I am happy to return to my school
and my friends.
We missed the school atmosphere,” she said, adding that she
hoped there wouldn’t be a return to distance learning.
Islam Al-Talib, a
mother with three sons enrolled in the remedial program, said that her sons had
not performed well last year.
She was “overjoyed” at seeing the streets filled
with students again when she went to pick her children up from school.
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