THE TUNISIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM GOES DIGITAL: A …
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Héla Bergaoui Nafti [email protected]
Ministry of Education
Hammamet, May26,2010
« Schools will endeavour to provide quality
education for all learners…. develop their
gifts and skills,help them acquire ICT
competencies and apply them in various
fields ».
Education Act,July 2002
THE TUNISIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM
Background and context
From quantitative teaching to quality education
1958:1st major reform in education laid the
foundations of a national educational system
open to all Tunisians.
1991 : turned towards the future: compulsory
and free schooling & a new strucure in
secondary education
2002 : quality education for all
ASSESTS OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
1. Full free and compulsory schooling to all children
and absolute gender equality :
Schooling rate in 2009:
6-year olds :99,2% boys/99,2% girls
2.Training of highly-qualified teachers:free training
to all teachers
3. Schools in all parts of the country, even in the
most remote areas.
WHY INTEGRATE ICT IN
EDUCATION IN TUNISIA?
Take part in the digital revolution
Foster a digital culture
Boost creativity
Help involve mixed-ability learners
Economize efforts
Integrate learners with learning
difficulties/with disabilities
Is inclusive :helps fight school dropout
Meet the needs of the labour market
ICT :A NEW PEDAGOGY
Empowers students : construct their knowledge
Students learn to learn : a tool and practices to best
use fantastic wealth of information on the Net
Students develop common competencies: critical
thinking, collaborative work, project-based learning
through the use of ICT.
Curriculum based on the values of tolerance, global
citizenship, connectedness
Opens onto other cultures: Communities of learners
A STRATEGIC CHOICE
The Ministry of Education has set up a
comprehensive long-term strategy :
- Huge investments : standards of quality
- A vision : infrastructure, equipment, human
resources, curricula, content
- No child left behind: gifted and
underprivileged: pioneer schools and priority
area schools
- Mechanisms for sustainability
IMPLEMENTING THE STRATEGY
PILOTING
PHASE
TRAINING ALL TEACHERS
TEACHING ALL STUDENTS
EQUIPMENT
Schools are equipped with :
-computer labs: about 2000
-language labs: about 1460
Interactive white boards : piloted in 1st
grade secondary education in science,
generalized next year
INFRASTRUCTURE
INBMI :institut National de bureatique et micro-
informatique
CNIPRE :Centre National Innovation pedagogique et
de recherche en éducation
CENAFFE: Centre National de formation des
formateurs en education
CNP:Centre national pédagogique
CREFOC:centre régional de formation continue
AVAILABLE RESOURCES
EDUNET: National educational website
wide range of services and information for teachers
students and staff
Online enrolment, results of national exams, contests
virtual school :distance learning, tutoring
various services: online library,lesson plans,articles
Moodle : a site for exchanges
TNELT : English Language teachers
network :www.edunet.tn/tnelt
EDUSERV: school management programme
EDUSERV
Réseau Education Technique
HUMAN RESOURCES
68.000 primary school teachers
55% are female teachers
75.000teachers in middle schools and
secondary education
38.000 female teachers and 36.000 are male
teachers
TRAINING
This year, a diploma 2CI ( Certificat de Compétences
en Informatique)
Out of the 150.000 teachers ,136.000 have been/ are
being trained in ICT as a tool,not as a subject matter
Free training, according to teachers’ availability,
delivered by professional trainers (Senior trainers and
Master trainers trained in partnership with an
international pioneer company)and meeting
international standards
DIGITAL PRODUCTION
Digital tools to match curricula in many subjects:
-at the level of primary education
-at the level of middle schools
-in some subjects in secondary education in Science
For language labs :digital content is being produced
by teams of inspectors and skilled teachers
Achievements……but also
challenges
Equipment, tools but teachers need to adhere to ICT
Best practices need to be disseminated
Digital production has to increase
It takes time to change mentalities
Embedded culture
Develop networks
Foster partnerships
TODAY LEARNER TOMORROW
CITIZEN
ICT is a great tool but has to be considered
mostly as a new way of approaching
education and empowering young
generations with 21st century skills