{"id":200919,"date":"2012-10-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=200919"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:04:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:04:36","slug":"auto-insert-200919","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-200919\/","title":{"rendered":"UNRWA schooling programme’s focus on raising standards – UNRWA article"},"content":{"rendered":"
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West Bank teacher’s way with IT wows students<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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5 October 2012 – UNRWA provides schooling to over 50,000 students in 99 schools in the West Bank, and has for the last three years been focused on a special plan to raise standards. UNRWA’s plan includes making the curriculum more targeted, teaching methods and remedial classes, and encouraging better community participation.<\/p><\/div>\n

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 As such, enthusiastic and innovative teacher educators like Fatemeh are central to the success of UNRWA’s schools.<\/p><\/div>\n

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What a difference a teacher makes<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Fatemah Takroori, 50, is an Arabic teacher at UNRWA’s school for girls in Tulkarem, in the northern West Bank. A Palestine refugee whose family is originally from Jaffa, Fatemah joined UNRWA as an educator in 1982. She has dedicated her career to the exploration of new teaching methods.<\/p><\/div>\n

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“My top priority is the effective dissemination of knowledge to my students”, she says.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Keen to enable her students to learn in new ways, Fatemah has produced a set of audiovisual CDs with accompanying booklets as part of a comprehensive language learning programme to improve her students’ Arabic grammar.<\/p><\/div>\n

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“I sought to design methods of learning that would be attractive and unique to my students”, she said. “It will also help them overcome challenges”.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Diversity of style and delivery<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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On top of her designing of computerised classes, Fatemah works hard to broaden and enrich the curriculum of the school in other ways. She is the coordinator of a multi-focused curricular plan that uses workshops to introduces the students to civic issues such as the role of the state, local governance and human rights. She also works as a theatre and arts coach for her young students.<\/p><\/div>\n

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It is this diverse approach to teaching that marks her out as an outstanding educator, says school principal Mayadah Abul Qadir: <\/p><\/div>\n

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“Her first priority is to her students… her main concern is to improve the results of her students through motivating materials”.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fatemah’s activism and dedication to human rights personify the United Nations’ firm support of the universal right to education and international human rights, says the principal. <\/p><\/div>\n

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“Fatemah is a very dedicated teacher”, she adds.  “Really, she is an inspiration.”<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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