Safety and well-being of the younger generation play an important role in the context of the developing world. They are the priorities of the development of modern society.
Centre for Educational Programmes has developed an elective course on Safety and Well-being for students of grades 7-10, aimed at acquiring the knowledge and skills that ensure safe living in the world and the social environment, creating a safe and comfortable living environment, shaping the values of a healthy and safe lifestyle, emotional and mental stability, mastering the rules of personal and collective safe behaviour.
The course aims to develop students’ personal competencies, develop problem-solving skills and adaptive behaviour of students, improve knowledge and practical skills of safe behaviour. Students update their knowledge about proper nutrition, regular physical activity and hygiene, the dangers of tobacco, alcohol and drugs, knowledge of how to maintain their emotional well-being and develop healthy relationships with other people. The course will help students develop skills of conscious behaviour to avoid situations that may pose a threat to their health and safety, develop a sense of responsibility for their own safety and the safety of others, improve their social skills and emotional intelligence skills. The course curriculum includes the principles of communication, the ability to listen and express own thoughts and emotions. This will help students to build healthy, harmonious relationships with others and effectively cope with conflicts. The course material contributes to the development of self-awareness and self-esteem of students. Methods of teaching include the use of practical examples and real-life cases so that students can see the application of theory in practice. This will help them better understand and evaluate real situations of safety and well-being.
The elective course programme is designed for 34 hours in each grade.
The programme consists of four strands.
Health protection and healthy lifestyle
Mental health and well-being
Well-being in a social environment
Personal safety
The themes in the course are based on the spiral model when students’ knowledge and skills are improved as they progress from grade to grade.
On 12-13 October, Astana hosted an important event in the world of technology — the international IT forum Digital Bridge 2023, which brought together outstanding speakers, heads of technology companies and key figures from the world of politics not only in Kazakhstan, but also in other countries.
The opening of the forum was marked by the speech of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, in which he shared his vision of trends in the development of artificial intelligence and its impact on the global economy.
The branded stand allowed the branch “Centre for Educational Programmes” of AEO Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools to present its products “NIS LAB” and “NIS Online” to the visitors of the forum, as well as to tell about the prospects of development in this sphere. It is worth noting that secondary schools and foreign investors are particularly interested in the NIS LAB product.
We are confident that the arrangements concluded within the framework of this forum will have a positive impact on our future achievements and agreements.
Training of subject specialists, methodologists as a part of secondary education improvement in Kazakhstan
On June 10, 2022, the training of subject specialists, methodologists, who are the members of the project groups on revision State Compulsory Educational Standard as a part of secondary education improvement in Kazakhstan, was completed.
The content of education is known to be renewed cyclically all around the world. In developed countries, it varies from 5 to 10 years. Therefore, in Kazakhstan Altynsarin Academy of Education has created project groups to review secondary education curricula.
More than 300 teachers participated in the training held in Nur-Sultan from 7 to 10 June 2022. The training was delivered by Dr Phil Lambert from Sydney, Australia, an OECD expert in the development of secondary education content with the experts from Centre for Educational Programmes, Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools AEO.
The training covered the structure, principles, goals and objectives of curriculum design, the importance of writing learning objectives and a comparative analysis of international curricula.
Monitoring of the NIS-Programme implementation in Intellectual schools
From March 28 to April 8, 2022, subject experts of Centre for Educational Programmes monitored NIS-Programme (hereinafter- subject experts) being implemented across the Intellectual Schools.
The monitoring was held in 9 cities on the implementation of secondary and higher school programmes.
The purpose of the monitoring was to analyze the implementation process of NIS-Programme during distance and blended learning formats in the pandemic.
During the monitoring different data collection methods were applied: lesson observation, review of short-term lesson plans and handout materials, analysis of student papers and focus groups with students and teachers.
The monitoring was conducted to identify difficulties that NIS teachers and students faced during the pandemic.
Subject experts visited lessons not only on their subjects, but also other subjects to get the whole picture of NIS-Programme.
As a result, methodological recommendations will be provided to NIS teachers to support students while studying according to NIS-Programme There will also be training during the summer sessions.
Every Wednesday Grade 9-10 students from Ziyatker school have lessons online via ZOOM within the project “Support in the development of secondary education in Atyrau region”. They solve non-standard and Olympiad problems in Mathematics under the supervision of Toibek Aubakirov, a subject coordinator and Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. These lessons aim to develop students’ numeracy by teaching them how to build mathematical models and describe processes in different contexts, and to apply this knowledge in practice. They motivate students to learn Mathematics.
