With the participation of Syria… Regional Workshop on Teaching Reading and Writing in Early Childhood in the Arab countries”

At the invitation of the UNESCO Regional Center for Quality and Excellence in Education in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Regional Center for Early Childhood Development in Damascus participated today in a virtual regional workshop entitled “Teaching Reading and Writing in Early Childhood in the Arab countries”.

The workshop aims to review the outputs of the study of the Project, “Teaching Reading and Writing in Early Childhood in the Arab countries” as a contribution to achieving the fourth goal of the Sustainable Development Goals 2030.

The director of the Regional Center for Early Childhood Development, Suha Bssessini, made a presentation about the center’s work within a panel discussion entitled” Challenges and opportunities of Quality Arabic language Education for Children in the Digital Era”, whose projects included the development of children’s reading and writing skills at an early age, in particular the project to encourage reading and the kindergarten reader competition.

At the end of the workshop, participants recommended the need to develop the reality of reading and writing in early childhood in the Arab States and how an integrative social contract would promote the teaching of Arabic language to native and non-native speakers.

They stressed the importance of institutionalizing this participatory project, widely disseminating the project’s outputs, training Arabic language specialists in early childhood on the foundations and mechanisms of the project, and providing management guides that help curriculum developers and early childhood administrators.

Amal Farhat