Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE) organised an introductory meeting on the admission of 3-year-old children into the state-funded kindergarten that is supervised by Early Years Education Department in collaboration with Training and Educational Development Centre.
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 their education.
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.
He said that 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 noted 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.
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.
In addition, Training and Educational Development Centre 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 centre 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 Centre (HITC), in pursuit of providing first medical aid, in addition to partners from the MoEHE’s departments.
