* This article was automatically translated from the Arabic version of the HIBA PRESS website *
A. Latif Baraka: Heba Press
The government had previously approved draft decree No. 2.24.144 concerning the “Mark of pioneer establishments”, whose educational establishments are part of the evolution of the educational reform undertaken by the government to reform the education system. This educational project is also part of the activation. the agreement of December 26, 2023 between the unions of the most representative educational establishment in the education sector and the tripartite ministerial committee on the status of national education employees.
The Government, together with the ministry responsible for the sector, considered this step as a reform development in the field of reform of the education system, according to a project and a structured program aimed at improving learning processes through three fundamental dimensions. student through the adoption of a new teaching approach, a remedial approach concerned with educational support and a preventive approach focused on effective teaching during knowledge acquisition stations, and another axis linked to the teacher includes the facilitation of working conditions by providing administrative educational frameworks with. digital equipment and educational resources and through close monitoring of administrative inspectors, as well as the axis linked to the establishment, which is concerned with improving reception conditions in educational establishments, such as rehabilitation, the cleanliness and supply of the rooms with the various equipment you need. and make financial resources available to these institutions.
***An educational project with a new vision, but not without explicit criticism
According to analysts and interested parties, this educational project, for which huge sums of money were spent, has shown, according to scientific studies, a tangible improvement in the learning level of students of these institutions.
Especially after the first evaluation of the sector, since there are encouraging indicators of the success of this program, which aims to improve the public school guaranteeing equal opportunities and equality, based on a recent scientific study regarding the “Pioneer Schools” project in Morocco, which concluded with a positive impact on the level of improvement and evaluation of student learning, with the most significant effects observed in French and mathematics.
At a time when the ministry is working on the successful implementation of this project, some professors and directors of educational establishments who participated in this program are complaining about not receiving their contributions. Some of them denounced the absence of teaching staff. equipment, and some of them transformed into a “carrier” who carries the equipment on his shoulders with his own money.
**A unique educational experience and fears of failure
The experiment of installing leadership establishments has entered its second year in the primary sector, increasing from 626 primary education establishments to 2,626 primary education establishments participating in this experiment in all regions of Morocco, which will allow this ambitious project to expand the sample of students benefiting from this project.
The leadership establishments project in the field of primary education is part of the implementation of the requirements of the procedural framework of the 2022-2026 roadmap adopted by the Ministry, through which it aims to increase the rate of control of basic learning, to fight against educational waste. , and allow children to make the most of school life activities.
In its experiment, the project targets 2,626 primary schools, which were selected on the criterion of voluntary willingness to involve their educational and administrative teams, and during which a certain number of teachers, women and men, were trained by several educational inspectors who have benefited from quality training by international teams experienced in TARL and explicit educational approaches, with preparation for interventional research in the field and post-certification of the approach.
To broaden this experience, it is necessary to train an additional number of actors, in particular control inspectors, directors of educational establishments, guidance agents and teachers, through practical theoretical training, then a field application and research.
The training process for the various actors began with the training of a certain number of educational inspectors through a series of remote meetings with teams of international experts, then regional workshops accompanied by the preparation of intervention research, in order to to train a certain number of teachers and women to implement educational programs. classroom approaches for the benefit of a large number of students, in addition to A number of institutional leaders will work to implement the merged establishment project according to the vision of the leadership establishments model.
**** Regional directorates are on alert to receive the new baby
The various regional directorates have begun the process of equipping and rehabilitating educational establishments, allowing them to implement various approaches and offer optimal learning conditions. All actors involved in expanding the experience of pioneer establishments are financially motivated, including accompanying inspectors, guidance managers, teachers. administrative executives and educational executives. They also benefit from laptops and a kit to download the project. Attractive establishments with equipped classrooms in which technology has been integrated through investment in appropriate level teaching (TARL) and explicit teaching in fundamentals. learning: Arabic, French and mathematics by teaching teams according to specialization…
*** An educational project and the extent of the constraints
What has been observed, according to many stakeholders and key players in the system, is that the implementation of this project faces a certain number of constraints, in particular:
-The problem of overpopulation within the departments is that the average number reaches more than 40 students at certain levels and the number of teachers reaches 40, not counting the nannies in the primary education departments.
-The problem of pioneering institutions which have more than 1,000 students, which operate with an administrative staff composed mainly of a single director, and which must be equipped with specialized executives to assist the educational administration in the implementation of the project.
-The shortage of student notebooks, not to mention the printing and copying problems suffered by many principals, who are now struggling alone to resolve the problem of the shortage of notebooks.
-Unjustified delay in the disbursement of a grant from the Al-Najah School Support Association, which is involved in the governing institutions.
-Shortage in the number of private security guards and cleaners, especially in crowded and large establishments.
Some managements avoid providing establishments with a certain number of professors and entrusting this task to managers, which considerably increases the number of tasks which multiply without any acceptable incentive.
– The absence of several pointer computer control devices, this device being therefore assigned to the room and not to the teacher.
– Some inspectors have difficulty keeping up with teachers who rely on themselves to upload the project.
– The value of the subsidy for administrative staff was reduced, and in return they were overloaded with a large number of tasks, to the point that they began to carry the student’s kit, the teacher’s kit and the kit of the department via their own cars in a pathetic situation, despite the availability of an educational management cadre that should enjoy a high reputation.
