Towards educational stability in our schools

Taghreed Ibrahim Al -Tasan

In a strategic move that expresses the maturity of the educational experience and a real desire to evaluate and develop, the Council of Ministers approved the return of the two semester system in public education schools, starting from the academic year 1447-1448 AH, and for the next four years.

This decision comes three years after the application of the three -class class system, which carried many positives, but it imposed field and social challenges that cannot be ignored, which necessitated careful review and a decision that restores balance to the educational system in the Kingdom.

The new decision does not mean decline, but rather an expression of administrative flexibility and the ability of the educational system to self -evaluation and interact with reality requirements.

The organization for the next four years sends a clear message: stability in the academic system is an essential pillar for achieving learning quality, performance control, and promoting long -term planning for schools, teachers and parents alike.

One of the most prominent features of the decision is that each semester will extend to 18 weeks, which gives sufficient time to present the curricula in a balanced manner, away from speeding up or filling, and allows the consolidation of concepts and promoting the cognitive depth of students.

It also opens the way for the diversification of educational activities and practical applications, and achieving integration between theoretical lessons and field practices, in a way that keeps pace with the targets of the Kingdom’s 2030 vision in building a conscious, empowered, and loving student.

This decision holds each educational authority clearly. The school is no longer in front of a volatile or experimental system, but rather in front of a clear and stable timetable, which calls for investing every week and every day in achieving the impact.

School departments must set plans and programs that enhance the quality of education within the classroom, create a stimulating educational environment, encourage the student to interact, engage, achieve, and prevent the leakage of boredom or relaxation within relatively long weeks.

As for the teacher, it is the main axis in this transformation. The length of the semester gives him the opportunity to implement more effective and varied educational strategies, allowing him to follow up on individual differences between students, and to provide appropriate academic and educational support for each case.

There is no longer a justification for relying on traditional methods boring in education. Rather, it has become required for the separation to turn into a cognitive workshop, combining indoctrination and interaction, between education and experimentation, and between the subject and real life.

On the other hand, the guardian’s role as a key partner comes to the success of this organization. While returning to the two semesters and the length of the study period, it is necessary for the family to realize that regularity in attendance is not a luxury, but rather a maximum necessity, and that absence or complacency at the beginning or end of the classes weakens the feasibility of the full semester. The family is required to build a habit of commitment to the student, and linking him to the importance of benefiting from every school day, in order to promote responsibility and self -discipline.

On the other hand, the decision restores the balance to the time rhythm of the Saudi family. After years of repeating the evaluation, retail holidays, distributing mental and psychological effort in three chapters, a return to two chapters comes to give everyone – a student, a teacher, a guardian – a better opportunity to plan, prepare, and stability.

It is worth noting that returning to the two chapters does not necessarily mean a return to what the system was previously 3 years ago. Rather, the opportunity is now favorable to benefit from the previous experience, and to take the positives in it, such as the flexible distribution of curricula, the intensity of activities, periodic evaluation, and trying to integrate it within the separation system in a more mature and developed style.

In conclusion, the decision is an important turning point, because it is not only seen by the amount of learning, but its quality. It opens a wide door to reshaping the concept of the school year, from being a time to sleep to being an integrated project to build a person who is able to think, creativity, and influence.

Between an inspiring teacher, a conscious school, and a supportive family, we can make the two semester system a real platform to achieve a leap in the level of education, which restores the school its prestige, the share of its value, and education has its true impact on human building.