On November 9, the 2024 voluntary certification process of public school teachers will start.
"This year, for the first time, the process of voluntary attestation will be carried out in electronic format. The process starts on November 9 and will end on November 24. In all marzes and in 35 exam centers in Yerevan, conditions have been created for the certification process to be organized there," Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Araxia Svajyan said at the conference.
He informed that this year 5620 working teachers and 572 non-working persons were registered for voluntary certification, including pedagogues teaching general education subjects in primary and secondary professional educational institutions.
"This year it is also a mandatory condition: around 360 teachers who did not pass the voluntary certification in previous years must also participate in the voluntary certification. Within the framework of the regular certification, a problem of knowledge of subject knowledge was noted for 607 teachers, a need, which is also included in the voluntary certification, the certification will be organized," said the deputy minister. He expressed hope that they will have good results this year. Araxia Svajyan said that this year they will have to to terminate the contract with all those teachers who have not passed the voluntary certification for the second year or more. "We hope that conducting the test in this new format will allow more teachers to pass the threshold," said the deputy minister. He informed that if 60 percent of the tests are passed there is a rate change. teachers have a rate of 200,000 drams, in case of recording the corresponding results: 70-79, 80-89, 90-100 percent, they already have the possibility of an additional payment of 30, 40, 50 percent. For 5 years, the results of the voluntary certification continue to work, regardless of whether the teacher will work at the school. The Minister of Foreign Affairs said that they are concerned about the participation indicators and the overcoming threshold, they are trying to bring out the problems that are objective reasons that affect the overcoming threshold.
"One of them is lack of time. That is the reason why it was changed to an electronic format, and teachers often complained about the organization of the process of filling in the form, which made them a little stressed and complicated.
We heard concerns from the teachers regarding the complexity of the tasks.
One of the most important principles for us is that the certification process of all tasks of all subjects, the complexity of the tests should be comparable.
I hope this year it has been settled, we don't have subjects that are more difficult than another subject," he said, adding that the GTC revised the structure of the tests and had clear instructions for some subjects.
A. Svajyan said that they already have more than 3,800 teachers who have passed the voluntary certification, most of them also receive an additional payment. achieve higher results.
We hardly have a school where there is not at least one certified teacher," the deputy minister noted.
Source: Panorama.am
