Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk appealed to the headmasters of
Kyiv schools, who had become the winners in the open competitions, to take an
active part in drafting an education bill and to put forward their proposals.
The Head of Government urged at a meeting with the principals of these schools
on Friday, October 2.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk reminded that higher education had experienced a lot of
changes, whereas secondary education needed retrofitting.
According to the Head of the Government, the difference between a Ukrainian
and western system of secondary education is that an emphasis in our national
system is made on teaching: "While in the foreign educational system it is
essential to think. And unless we switch to this function, we won’t be able to
achieve real progress. Our children should be taught to think".
Arseniy Yatsenyuk stressed that the law on education should envisage an
additional autonomy for the principal of a secondary school. According to him,
it primarily concerns an administrative and organizational autonomy “in the
process of taking decisions concerning who works and how".
Moreover, according to him, it is vital to introduce a contract for the
educational staff: "Any teacher or headmaster who signed the contract must
understand what goals he has to achieve".
"The contract and the new law should provide incentives to encourage
one-upmanship for teachers. The system of incentive is simple and clear - the
better implementation criteria you demonstrate, the more money you earn",
he stressed.
During the meeting they also discussed increasing hours for learning
English in schools’ curriculum. Arseniy Yatsenyuk called that a serious
geopolitical decision, noting that we ought to appeal to the Governments of the
U.S. and the UK with a request to facilitate the development of a broad
programme of English language training.
He also highlighted the need to introduce psychological work with pupils of
educational institutions: "These children are actually the war generation.
Every day they turn on the TV and see the hostilities. It is crucial already
today to talk to children and design a program to avoid a negative influence of
this injury on their lives in the future".
The meeting was held in specialized school №148 named after Ivan Bahriany with
an in-depth studying of Ukrainian language and literature, in which Serhii Gorbachev
had been appointed the headmaster, as he had been chosen among the winners of
the selection competitions in Kyiv.
The Prime Minister spoke with pupils and took part in a lesson on media
literacy.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk laid flowers at the memorial plaque to Yevhen Zelensky,
a former student of the school, who had died during an antiterrorist operation.
No comments:
Post a Comment