King Fahad bin Abdulaziz Quality Center
The Best Practices in the Quality of School Education Standards The word of his royal highness prince Mohammad bin Fahad bin abdulaziz Al Saud, Governer of eastern Province, Honorary Chairman of the advisory board of King Fahad bin Abdulaziz Quality Center to The Best Practices Standards in the Quality of School Education booklet.
The aspiration to complete a work according to the highest standards of quality and the best practices become inevitable approach that requires institutions on different domains of work taking it to achieve outstanding performance and leadership. Our government has consistently supported education as the base for the comprehensive development in our country. The efforts of King Fahd Bin Abdul aziz Quality Center to improve the quality of education is an important part in country's support for the development of the performance of educational institutions and the achievements of the center since its inception is a cause for pride. This achievement "best practice standards in the quality of school education" comes as a quality initiative to stimulate our schools to look always for the best in educational performance, which is a necessary step that schools needed to respond to the requirements of the era of knowledge economy. In conclusion, I thank all employees in the center on their initiatives and their good efforts to support quality in our educational institutions wishing to all your activities every success.
A map for excellence in our education Through advisory visits and field trips by the team of King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Quality Center, We found in every school a distinguished practice in both educational and administrative processes even in schools that face difficulties in the building or other physical items. The real strange thing that the majority of schools do not benefit of the distinguished practices of other schools even the closest. Quality management applications in a school focus on the importance and Necessity of the school in taking advantage from the areas of excellence among other schools. This process is called from a quality perspective (benchmarking), a continuing and organized process that aims to seek the school to take advantage of the strengths of the other distinguished schools. King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Quality Center looks to build a map of excellence in our education so that all our schools benefit from the distinctive practices from each other in an easy and fast way. We mean here (Map excellence) that enables schools of organizational creativity and excellence in Educational performance through creativity and continuous improvement from where it ended other distinctive practices. We thus save time, effort and material resources and look forward, God willing, to finish the job using the method of "reinvent the wheel". King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Quality Center looks forward through deployment of domains and the best practices standards in the quality of school education to the development and promotion of quality culture and excellence in our schools by directing its programs and activities to meet the needs of beneficiaries of its educational service (students, teachers, parents, the community, and others). The center looks that all our schools in both government and private sectors to work on these standards to support the quality of education. Team of King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Quality Center
Mohammed bin Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
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The domains of the school's administrative processes Performance evaluation
Decision-making
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Motivation
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Mutual evaluation
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Professional development
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The use of modern technologies in the school’s administrative process
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Encouraging creativity
School cafeteria
exploiting the possibilities
Planning
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Local
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community
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives. William A. Foster
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The domains of the school's educational processes Learning and teaching environment
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Caring of special needs 17
Respecting students
Non-classroom activities
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A variety of teaching methods
Values
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Developing of skills 19 and talents
Students involvement in the educational 12 process
Parental involvement in the educational process
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The use of modern technologies in learning and teaching process
Improving academic achievements
"Homework, learning through memorizing and recalling and exams may contribute to enhance learning to a certain degree in improving the minimum examination results at a certain point in time. Also, it may help in being disciplined and developing the ability to set priorities,(but) we should look at what we want to add to that of the educational process. We must have the basic skills such as language, math and science. Otherwise, we should look at how we can encourage the development of the individual as a part of the community. To create in their character the creativity qualities, values, courage and determination. We can possibly start by giving our schools more flexibility to try new ideas and benefit from eachother's experiences". De Ho Ching (Singapore)
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pictures of The Best Practices Standards in the Quality of School Education workshops
Why Standards? • What cannot be measured ... Cannot be improved ... Cannot be managed and judge its quality. • We need to know the current level of performance of the practices of our schools ... And the expected level of performance. • workers in the field of education need to find out what they accomplished ... And how to accomplish ?
Why the Best Practices? • In order to build a knowledge society: o Schools need the effective management of time and effort and human and material resources ... o Schools need to move towards smart, educated schools ...
Why the Quality of School Education..? • Schools need a functioning system to create a safe , collaborative and stimulating creativity school environment. • Schools need a functioning system that gives more authority to manage its affairs. • Schools need a functioning system that supports continuous improvement ability of its performance. • Schools need a successful system that directs school decisions to rely on data and statistics instead of assumptions and guesses
General Supervision Dr. /Abdul Rahman Al-Medaires Chairman of the Advisory Board Mr./ Ahmed Balghunaim
The importance of a global perspective to the best practices in the quality of school education is to enable our schools to bridge the performance gap between local and global reality and thus the output of the educational system in our schools are able to recruit and produce renewed knowledge to keep up with globa.l changes.
Executive Director/President of the Center
Team Mr./ Abdullah Al-Okasi Director of the Center Mr./Riyadh Al-Haidar Supervisor in the Center Translated by: Mariem AL-khudair. Revised by : Iqbal M Al-Shuhail Coordination:.Fatimah AL-Mulla
For more information see the Booklet the best practices standards in the quality of school education which is available to download in the Centre website jawda.hasaedu.gov.sa site
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