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| Ricieving ISA Award for Dr. Chandana High School |
The British Council handed over crests
and certificates to School representatives at a formal ceremony held on
Wednesday at the Banquet Hall of the Hotel Radisson Blue Water Garden in the
capital.
Deputy
Minister for Education Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury Nowfel attended the event as
the chief guest with Director of Education and English, British Council,
Bangladesh, David Maynard in the chair.
Project Manager Schools, British Council
Bangladesh Nusrat Jahan Milki moderated the session.
In his welcome speech, Director of Education
and English, Bangladesh, David Maynard said that the Connecting Classroom is a
partnership journey between schools to schools, teachers to teachers and
students to students. It defines the shared activities of the schools on
different learning issues based on the curriculum.
Teachers and students benefit by sharing
best practices in developing collaborative activities. It has created a better
and enhanced learning environment imparting a sense of internationalism and
leadership among the students in the schools, he stated.
International School Award (ISA) is a
celebration and recognition of collaborative activities of schools. It is very
important to develop global teaching-learning trend among the teachers and
students and to know the cultural values, tradition and heritage of the
international partner schools said David Maynard.
He also said around 3000 schools of the country were registered with Connecting Classroom program of the British
Council, Bangladesh. The organization offers face to face training and online
courses for the teachers on different educational programs, including 21st-century
core skills to improve professional skills and to ensure quality and
sustainable teaching-learning.
The
deputy minister of education said, “Quality education and the world-class
education with the changing demand of technology and globalization are
important for our children. The government has been working to ensure quality
education in order to reach the SDGs target.”
“There has been a revolutionary change in
the education sector. Enrollment, girls’ education and pass rate in the public
examinations have been increased. The government has fully focused on quality
education and entire schools’ development. Teachers are the maker of all sorts
of development and future generation. So, the government has given priority to
uplift the livelihood of the teachers,” he said.
He also said that learning core skill is
the demand for education in the present world. Teachers and students
across the globe are acquiring the skills and encouraged and inspired sharing
and exchanging the collaborative education projects through Connecting
Classroom program. It has created opportunities for young people to learn about
and take consequent action on global issues as well as to develop their key
transferable skills.
An award winner Kurshiduzzaman Ahmed, who was
also a Head Teacher, Kaliganj Karim Uddin Public Pilot High School, Lalmonirhat
said that practising ISA activity is really like a win-win situation. It
was very effective and goal-oriented. It was learning beyond the syllabus.
The ISA School
Co-ordinator MD. ABDUL MAJID, Assistant Teacher (Mathematics) of DR. CHANDANA HIGH SCHOOL who received the ISA Award, said "ISA (International School Award) is international
recognition of the successful implementation of practical learning and teaching
of the subject. So it is very effective practical learning for all
institutions.”
About
400 Teachers including Principal, Head Teachers, Education Officials, Policymakers,
experts across the country joined the event.
A cultural program FOLLOWED, was
performed by the students of Narayanganj Govt. Girls’ School in the event.
Photo exhibitions on international
activities of the schools were also displayed in the event. Some 10 schools
across the country set up stalls and displayed their collaborative learning
activities documents with their international partner schools.
