Press Release — The Rotary
Club of Amman International celebrated the Rotary’s “basic education and
literacy” theme by hosting a well-respected Jordanian expert in education, Amneh Al-Rawashdeh,
according to a club statement.
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Speaking on the K-20
challenges and opportunities at the Grand Hyatt Amman, Rawashdeh told Rotarians
that school teachers face various challenges, teaching beyond the curriculum
that is given to them.
“We need our
teachers to work and address social justice, inclusiveness, peace education,
and special needs issues they face inside their classrooms and in their schools,”
said Rawashdeh, an assistant faculty at Yarmouk.
Holder of a New
Mexico University doctorate degree in Educational Administration and
Leadership and a minor in Women’s Studies, Rawashdeh said more effort is needed
by the Ministry of Education, communities, and NGOs to allow students and
teachers to celebrate differences rather than attempt to deny them.
“Diversity
enriches education and prepares students for higher education and the work
environment which is totally different from what they are used to in their
small community,” she said.
“The more that
students are aware of their agency and identity and comfortable with where they
are coming from and differences, the easier it will be for them to deal with
the challenges beyond school,” added Rawashdeh, who was once the director of
the Quality Assurance and accreditation center.
Rawashdeh
explained that more needs to be done to close the gap between private and
public schools. “More training is needed for private school teachers,
especially in the governorates outside the capital, where the schools, to a
greater extent, are doing a better job than the private ones, while the
opposite is true in Amman.”
She suggested that
teachers need to be a key part of their communities, and communities need to
recognize the role of teachers in society,” she asserted, calling on teachers
and communities to look at the bigger picture and support the development of a
culture of learning, inclusiveness, and acceptance in communities.
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