OMANI TEACHER S DAY
The Sultanate of Oman, represented by the Ministry of Education, celebrates the Omani Teacher’s Day, which falls on the 24 February every year, to enhance and appreciate teachers’ sincere contributions in delivering the educational message, and to honour, appreciate, and emphasise the active and continuous role that the teachers carry out in the educational field.
The number of teachers in government schools in the Sultanate reached 61,195 teachers, including 18,800 male teachers and 42,395 female teachers, while the number of administrative staff in public schools reached 10,652, including 4,306 male administrators, and 6,346 female administrators.
The growth rate of the number of teachers during the four years (2020-2023) was about 7.7 percent, with an average annual growth rate equivalent to 1.9 percent.
Omani teachers receive abundant and continuous attention from the Ministry of Education, and this is represented by the provision of rehabilitation, training and development programmes, courses, and workshops to advance their professional and functional capabilities in accordance with the ongoing developments and transformations taking place in the educational field.
One of the most prominent things that Omani teacher has received in the field of training and development is the establishment of the Specialised Institute for Professional Training of Teachers, the Main Training Institute and Training Centres in the governorates that contribute to supporting the efforts of Omani teacher and advancing their professional and career path.
The Specialised Institute for Professional Training of Teachers offers several programmes, including the new Omani teachers’ programme, and the subject experts’ programme in the subjects: mathematics, science, English, and Arabic (1-4), and the Arabic language (5-12), and experts in the second field.
It also offers supervisory job programmes, which are: the school leadership programme, the first teachers’ programme, the programmes for supervising support jobs and school administration supervisors.
The number of trainees in these training programmes during the academic year 2023-2024 reached approximately 715.
The teacher is the first basic building block in the educational process, because they have a major role in preparing generations for the future.
The Directorate-General of Educational Supervision has paid special attention to teachers so that they are qualified to deliver their lofty message. Among the aspects of interest is empowering the new teachers with teaching skills through programmes and training workshops, such as the induction programme for qualifying new teachers, which was implemented through several direct and virtual training stages, and presented by an elite group of educators in various scientific and educational specialisations, and appreciating and strengthening the brilliant teachers with certificates of gratitude and appreciation sent to their governorates, and caring for, supporting and assisting the poorly performing teacher, and following up on the development of performance.
The Directorate-General also continues to provide support and to refine the technical, scientific, and pedagogical skills of teachers during meetings and supervisory visits carried out by visiting teams to various educational governorates, and direct follow-ups of teachers in their schools and provides them with the necessary support and assistance on an ongoing basis. It also circulates scientific bulletins that enable teachers in the scientific and educational components and developments them in various subjects and scientific specialisations.
The Directorate-General is also keen to hold forums specialised in subject and employ scientific research and studies to develop teachers’ performance, in order to exchange experiences between teachers by providing them with the opportunity to participate with papers in live virtual forums.
It also seeks to strengthen good teachers by recording live lessons and presenting them on television channels, providing the opportunity for teachers and early educators to review updated and developed books before authorizing and printing them, adopting innovations and initiatives received from teachers, reviewing them and circulating them to expand the scope of benefit from them, and nominating distinguished teachers to participate in international conferences and forums according to specific principles and controls.
Omani teachers receive abundant and continuous attention from the Ministry of Education, and this is represented by the provision of rehabilitation, training and development programmes, courses, and workshops to advance their professional and functional capabilities in accordance with the ongoing developments and transformations taking place in the educational field