Category: Education

The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), through the League of the Institutions of Teaching Arabic to non-Arabic Speakers (LITAAS), will participate in the technical meeting on the “Preparation of Joint Reference Framework for Teaching Arabic Language”, to be hosted by the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) in Tunis on 14-15 November 2019.

Organized at the invitation of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), the meeting will explore ways to develop and finance references and executive mechanisms likely to give rise to a general unified framework for teaching Arabic to serve as a reference for the various institutions of teaching and learning Arabic language at the Arab and international levels.

In addition to ISESCO, LITAAS, IsDB, and ALECSO, the meeting will be attended by the Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States (ABEGS); the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU); the Association of Arab Universities (AAU); the Federation of Arab Scientific Research Councils (FARC) based in Khartoum, the Sudan; the Arabic Language Academy of Damascus (ALAD), Syria; the National Center for Assessment in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and Attanal Alarabi Institution for Training and Testing, Amman, Jordan.

ISESCO and LITAAS will be represented in the event by Mr. Adel Bouraoui, Supervisor of the Directorate of Education at ISESCO.

Yesterday, 04 November 2019, in Melaka, Malaysia, the regional workshop on “Using most efficient educational methods in teaching Arabic language for non-Arabic speakers in Southeast Asian countries” kicked off. It is being held by the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), in cooperation with the Malaysian Ministry of Education and Granada Editions.

The 5-day workshop, supervised by ISESCO Educational Centre in Malaysia, benefits 58 participants, including teachers and educational counsellors from the Malaysian Ministry of Education, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Brunei Darussalam.

The opening session was attended by the representative of the Malaysian Ministry of Education and a number of senior officials of the Department of Islamic Education in Melaka State, Malaysia.

ISESCO is represented in this workshop by Dr. Abdul Razif Zaini, Director of ISESCO Educational Centre in Malaysia.

The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) is taking part in the 14^th International Conference & Exhibition on ICT for Education, Training & Skills Development—E-Learning Africa, being held under the theme “The Keys to the Future: Learnability and Employability”, in Abidjan, Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, on 23-25 October 2019.

This conference is one the key international thematic events that address the role of technology in supporting learning, training and skills development. It also bring together experts, academicians, professionals, investors and people interested in the future of education in Africa.

The event’s programme features holding core dialogues, discovery demos, expertise exchange sessions, knowledge factories, panel discussions, and plenary sessions. It also includes holding high-level ministerial roundtables for African ministers of education, training and ICT.

This is not the first time ISESCO participates in this event; the Organization had taken part and co-held previous editions of e-Learning Africa. In this edition, ISESCO gave a presentation in one of the plenary sessions on ISESCO’s Project on “Educational Technology in Service of Alternative Teaching and Learning Patterns”, entitled “ICT and Leadership for Teachers’ Professional Growth: ISESCO’s Initiatives”. The presentation aimed to highlight the strategic orientations of ISESCO’s new vision regarding the use of ICT in service of education, and its role in teachers’ professional growth.

ISESCO is represented in this conference by Mr. Aziz Elhajir, Programme Specialist at the Directorate of Education.

Today at ISESCO Educational Centre in Malaysia, a “training session on educational methods in teaching Arabic language to non-Arabic speakers in Malaysia” kicked off in coordination with the Directorate of Education of the Islamic Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), and in cooperation with the Islamic Education Department at the Ministry of Education of Malaysia and the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM).

This two-day session, held in Fadenj Sojana High School in Jerantut City, Pahang Darul Makmur, aims to provide participants with mechanisms and methods to benefit from modern technologies in the field of teaching Arabic language through training on the use of computer educational programmes in teaching Arabic language to non-Arabic speakers.

The training, which brings together forty two (42) teachers from primary schools in Pahang Darul Makmur State, is the first of its kind held in this region for the benefit of Arabic language teachers. The training is supervised by the expert and associate professor, Dr. Jan dine Sardi from Universiti Teknologi MARA.