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Latest news: Ziya Selçuk, Minister of National Education, carried out important evaluations on face-to-face and distance education processes during the period of the pandemic.
The Minister of National Education, Ziya Selcuk, “Grand Meeting of the National Commission of UNESCO of Turkey” was attended by the 5th to the remote connection. Recalling that UNESCO has left 75 years behind since its inception, Selçuk said: “During this period, important steps have been taken globally in the name of establishment, preservation and sustainability through education for all, creating a welfare society and the convergence of cultures. However, despite these pleasant developments, humanity has still not solved its problems and achieved its goals in terms of education, prosperity and sustainable peace in accordance with the ‘Come and know’ philosophy that Yunus Emre expressed seven centuries ago. Therefore, international organizations like UNESCO and their strengthened role are still needed. Especially in our world, which has been struggling with the global epidemic for the past year, the need for education, science and culture is more evident than in previous periods due to the measures required by the epidemic.
“WE NEED TO DISPUTE TOGETHER TO DISPOSE OF OR MINIMIZE THIS RISK”
Emphasizing that the Covid-19 epidemic affects the field of education, as well as its impact on all fields, Minister Selçuk said: “ The stagnation caused by the epidemic is a matter of achieving the ‘2030 Sustainable Development Goals. ‘, in which UNESCO is involved in many dimensions, especially in’ qualified education ‘. It also reveals the risk. We must also do more together to eliminate or minimize this risk. “Quality education” is truly a fundamental pillar for achieving UNESCO’s sustainable development and sustainable peace goals. In this context, one of the main objectives of our educational vision 2023, the goal of training qualified people who are equipped with the skills of the time and the future, who are interested in science and culture, present and become more important. We also attach great importance to preparing our children and young people for the future with an approach that adapts to the times, and our efforts go in that direction, “he said.
“WITH A PROJECT TEAM AND PREPARED PROJECTS PREPARED BEFORE THE OUTBREAK, I CAN SAY THAT WE HAVE MADE THIS PROCESS MORE COMFORTABLE”
“I can say that we have overcome this process more easily in the framework of some projects and predictions made before the epidemic”
Recalling that distance education was started due to the Covid-19 epidemic, Minister Selçuk said: “As you know, we suspended face-to-face education in all our schools to prevent the epidemic, as in many countries. I can say that we have overcome this process more easily in the framework of some projects and predictions made before the epidemic. The Educational Information Network (EBA) has made a great contribution in this regard. Established television channels and other educational tools, printed educational tools, etc., supported distance education. Our basic paradigm in which the ‘opportunities in education for justice’ policy of the Ministry of National Education of the Republic of Turkey has worked with great devotion for the good left behind and we prioritize our students in education to distance, “he said.
“THE WAY THAT DOES NOT GO FROM MY SCIENCE IS DARK THE END”
Recalling that Hacı Bektaş Veli 750’nc the anniversary of the death of the Selcuk 2021, “Minister of Education and UNESCO National Commission of Turkey in 2021 as President of the General Assembly 750th anniversary of death, to be commemorated worldwide with UNESCO’s decision, Haci Bektas Veli ‘We also take the saying that the path not taken to my knowledge is dark at the end.’ Our establishment of a school network and UNESCO clubs in many areas such as kindergarten, schools primary and secondary schools, UNESCO chairs and the Learning Cities Program established in our universities are actually some of the important work done to ensure that each segment recognizes the universal values adopted by UNESCO ”.
“Our MINISTRY AND NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR LIFE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION OF TURKEY OF UNESCO HAVE PASSED THE PROJECT In”
Minister Selçuk continued his speech as follows:
“The projects of the Ministry of Turkey and UNESCO are executed in cooperation with the National Commission. One of them is the ‘Anatolian Tales Project’, which we have created to transfer common values from generation to generation with motives of our country and contribute to the development of children’s imagination. We attach great importance to this project. Because cultural heritage is brought to life through fairy tales. Another is the ‘Anatolian Children’s Games Project’, which we created to keep values and norms alive of our cultural codes and to discover and recognize the collective memory of culture by the new generations. Of course, they can also be accessed on the YouTube channel “.
The “English Together” project was implemented in cooperation with the Directorate General for Teacher Training and Development of the Ministry of National Education (MEB), the British Council and the Sabancı Foundation to support the ongoing professional development of English teachers. The Minister of National Education, Ziya Selçuk, the British Ambassador to Ankara, Sir Dominick Chilcott, the General Director of Teacher Training and Development Adnan Boyacı, the President of the Board of the Sabancı Foundation, Güler Sabancı, the General Director of the Sabancı Foundation, Nevgül Bilsel Safkan, British Council Education Director Ayşen Güven, and teachers attended the meeting. It was announced to the public.
It aims to reach 37 thousand English teachers and 16 million students in 3 years
The project aims to promote modern language teaching methods and techniques by supporting the professional and personal development of English teachers working in secondary schools and increasing the effectiveness of foreign language teaching. 550 English teachers in 19 districts of Ankara already reach more than 50 thousand students and the pilot phase is completed, all dissemination in Turkey of the project and it is expected that it will reach around 16 million students and 37 thousand English teachers in three years.
“A NATIONAL DUTY FOR US”
National Education Minister Ziya Selçuk, in his speech at the project’s promotion program, said: “Knowledge of a foreign language is an indisputable element of education and a need that must be addressed with individual, national and international dimensions. We study foreign languages; We are aware that it is essential for our economic development, for our progress in science and technology, for our development in culture and the arts, in short, for the future we dream of. For these reasons, it is a national duty for us to invest in foreign language skills at all levels of education and to develop strategies ”.
“FIRST, WE HAVE TAKEN THE FIELD ON THE BASIS OF LITERATURE, NOT LITERATURE AND WE GO FROM THE FIELD TO LITERATURE”
Stating that they have laid out the roadmap in Vision 2023 by addressing transformation in foreign language education with a fresh perspective, Selçuk noted that their primary goal is the development of language teaching standards and classroom practices. . Minister Selçuk said: “We want to create a functional model for our own learning culture, school climate and needs that will support many practices and experiences in our country” and said the “Continuous Improvement Program for English Teachers” and the project ” English Together ”is a very important step towards this model. Take that, he said they have developed a specific model for Turkey. “First of all, we take the field as a base, not literature, and we move from the field to literature”, said Minister Selçuk, “we have created a practical and functional model that includes professional solidarity, cooperation, practices and exemplary activities.”
“PROFESSIONAL LEARNING SOCIETIES” ESTABLISHED IN ANKARA
The professional processes and the development of teachers as a ministry under the project in Turkey in order to evaluate themselves and the UK Edinburgh College trainings held expressed by the Minister of Education Ziya Selcuk, in Ankara piloted for support this process, “Professional Learning Communities” said they established. Minister Selçuk said: “These communities, which consist of 9 groups of our English teachers from 19 Ankara districts, met in face-to-face and online meetings. They supported each other and made themselves a mirror sharing their difficulties, solutions and experiences. They did extracurricular activities that supported the curriculum, shared them, became an example and a source of inspiration for others ”, adding that they expanded the pilot implementation for the dissemination of the project and started trainings in 23 provinces.
“THE MOST VALUABLE COOPERATION BETWEEN THE UK AND TURKEY”
Promotion program participating in the UK Ambassador Sir Dominick Chilcott, “this project when I think of the thousands of English teachers and millions of students to the importance of these studies in the UK and Turkey
I would like to say that I see it as the most valuable cooperation between them ”.
“LANGUAGE LEARNING IS THE WINDOW TO THE WORLD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE”
Speaking at the ceremony, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Sabancı Foundation, Güler Sabancı, said: “The love and enthusiasm of our teachers, who deserve the best of everything, encourage us to work harder for them. We see the desire of our teachers to teach English at the highest level and with more innovative methods as the starting point of this project. English is considered today as the global language of communication. Almost 90 percent of scientific studies worldwide are conducted in English. Language learning is young people’s window to the world. “If qualified education in English is widely provided in our country, our youth will have first-hand access to scientific resources from around the world.”
“WE ARE OBJECTIVE TO TEACH 37 THOUSAND ENGLISH”
Adnan Boyacı, Managing Director for Teacher Training and Development, said: “In the first phase of the project, we completed nationally and internationally accredited online and face-to-face professional development trainings in cooperation with the British Council to support the ongoing professional development of our English teachers working in secondary schools in Ankara. We opened 256,700 people to apply. We prepare two books with educational content and share them with our teachers. In the second and third phases of the project, we intend to reach a total of 37 thousand teachers of English ”.
Participation in the program was limited due to the Covid-19 pandemic. At the end of the program, a souvenir photo was taken in accordance with the rules of the pandemic, respecting social distance.
