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Updating Qatar's Physical Education Curriculum By Ola Diab The Ministry of Education and Higher Education aims
practitioners of all ages, due to the infrastructure that enabled Qatar to diversity its sports facilities such as stadiums, sports clubs and other playgrounds.
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On the occasion of the country’s National Sport Day, which was celebrated on 8 February 2022, the ministry stated that the PE curriculum is in pace with the remarkable development that took place in the general framework of the country’s national educational curriculum. PE is a mandatory subject for all students, and it is carried out through the updated subject syllabus, which is based on educational competencies.
According to the ministry, these efforts have made a shift from a standards-based orientation to a competency-based orientation, in implementation of the general framework of the national educational curriculum of the State of Qatar, as it is the central reference point for making all decisions related to the curriculum to raise the levels of achievement in PE.
The process of developing and implementing the educational curriculum is based on three main axes, including moving carefully, adopting healthy, safe and active lifestyles, building character, and learning outcomes for each educational stage achieved by the student at the end of each stage, through which students are provided with skills, knowledge and strategies, the ministry added.
to update the curriculum of physical education (PE). he Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE) affirmed its keenness to update the curriculum of physical education (PE), noting its cooperation with the British Association for Physical Education (afPE), as well as the efforts of the team of PE experts and the ministry’s executive team.
According to the Director of the Public Relations and Communication Department at the MoEHE, Omar Al Yafei, sports have become a well-established culture in Qatari society because it has many health benefits. He said that Qatar has today turned into a wide sports space that includes all sports
MoEHE indicated that the primary objective of the physical education curriculum is to develop student basic and physical competencies, work on building their personalities, commensurate with the importance of physical activity, regularly participate in a healthy and physically active lifestyle through physical education, and exercise regularly, emphasising the importance of its interest in discovering talents and supporting sports clubs with these cadres, given that it is one of the objectives of PE classes. Regarding efforts to rehabilitate people with disabilities, MoEHE's PE department in the Department of Educational Guidance stressed that curriculums includes many strategies that help teachers to employ different sports, which ©
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