NIS: School is a territory of well–being
It is symbolic that the first round table on topical issues of modern education in the Year of the Child was devoted to the well-being of children.
As part of the jubilee project dedicated to the 180th anniversary of Ibrai Altynsarin, last year Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools held a series of round tables on priority areas of world education. The relevance of the new platform in the new reality determined its logical continuation for the professional development of teachers, the statistics of round tables show that more than a thousand teachers and representatives of educational organizations from all regions joined each conversation.
The landmark theme of the first meeting in the Year of the Child sounded like "The well-being of students: creating supportive school communities", and coincides with the strategic priority of global education, which is currently being worked on in most countries.
"School is the territory of well–being" - the main postulate and the positive name naturally coincided in the report of the chairman of the Board of AEO "Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools" Kulyash Shamshidinova. The well–being of children is the foundation on which learning is built, what should be supportive school communities and why are they important right now? The answers to these difficult questions, as well as NIS algorithms and best practices for creating a child-friendly environment, supplemented the professional cases of the participants of the round table.
The director of the Intellectual School of Taldykorgan, Viktor Sosin, devoted his speech to the new standards of international accreditation of schools, including a focus on the well-being of children, and specific examples of systematic work to create a child-friendly atmosphere in school, family and society.
How can education and health care be combined for the well-being of students? The integration of health and well-being in the educational process, including new paradigms of health based on nutrition, physical activity, mental health, was analyzed by the Director of the UNESCO Consulate for Global Health and Education Guf Buis.
UNODC international consultant, PhD, Master of Public Health Deborah Allen, who has been cooperating with NIS for many years on the Strong Family project, identified positive parenthood as one of the main factors of a child's emotional well-being.
Chairman of the Committee for the Protection of Children's Rights of the Ministry of Education and Science Esengazy Imangaliyev noted that Kazakhstan has mechanisms for the protection of children's rights and the management of their well-being, as well as tools for the formation of prosperous school communities. The country Index of Children's Well-being includes 4 domains (directions), 56 indicators, including children's access to decent living conditions, education, healthcare, infrastructure, protection from violence and opportunities for socialization. All the activities carried out and planned within the framework of the Year of Children are also focused on landmark indicators. The systematic and large-scale implementation of the strategy to create the well-being of the child as a whole in the country began with Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools, Esengazy Imangaliyev stressed.
Director of the Center for the Study of Human Rights, Inclusion and Civil Society of the Eurasian Technological University, moderator of the public project on the reform of school education "School of the Future" Khalida Azhigulova focused the attention of the participants of the round table on the changes necessary to build supportive and prosperous school communities, as well as additional measures necessary to ensure the safety, health, well-being of children in our country.
Methodologist Bakytgul Zhangazieva interested her colleagues in the cooperation of the Atyrau region Education Department, which she represents, and the AEO "Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools" in a specific direction – in the development of a prosperous and safe educational environment.
Each meeting on the professional platform created by NIS for teachers of the country has a mandatory continuation. A whole series of projects is planned in Intellectual schools to introduce the well-being of children in domestic schools, as one of the most relevant and in-demand priorities in modern education.