Transcript THE TUNISIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM GOES DIGITAL: A …

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