Teachers are the leaders of change, says education minister

CAIRO - 19 August 2018: Education Minister Tarek Shawki stressed on Sunday that teachers, who joined the current education development project, are the leaders of change as they are the cornerstone of the new educational system to be applicable as of September 22.

The program aims at honing students' skills of understanding and knowledge rather than memorization and dictation.

We are in a race against time to apply the new educational system and provide a distinguished educational service through teachers with creative thinking, the minister said while touring training halls at Teachers' Academy.

This is just the start, Shawki said, adding that teachers' training will continue all through the year to train teachers on a new philosophy; discovery, learning and application, to help students gain certain skills away from memorization and dictation.

He lauded the role of the Curriculum Development Center tasked with outlining school curricula with the help of Egyptian experts to develop curricula based on comprehension rather than memorization.