Улаанбаатар
Teachers to be involved in capacity building training for teaching bilingual learners
Society
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. On November 9, Minister of Education and Science L.Enkh-Amgalan held a virtual meeting with OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) High Commissioner on National Minorities Kairat Abdrakhmanov.
Previously, the two sides signed a memorandum of cooperation on developing multilingual and multicultural education in Mongolia on May 18, 2021.
Noting that works are planned to be implemented at certain schools to study and introduce successful practices being implemented for multilingual education by involving teachers in training for capacity building, the Minister highlighted the necessity to involve teachers and specialists in trainings organized in the framework of the OSCE’s Central Asia Education Programme. In turn, the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities expressed support for the minister’s suggestion.
Some of the measures being implemented to develop multilingual and multicultural education in Mongolia include the following:
- Student’s dictionaries have been published for 4th and 6th grade students at select schools. Some terms included in the textbooks for mathematics, natural science, arts, and P.E for Grades 1-6, and the biology textbooks for Grades 6-7 have been translated into Kazakh and Tuva languages.
- Select editions of the magazine, ‘Dialogue’, published by the OSCE’s Central Asia Education Programme have been translated into Mongolian and given to schools.
- Tuva and Kazakh language workbooks have been published for minority students in Grades 1-5. Aimed to assist students in catching up, the exercises included in the workbook are developed in a way that is interesting for children.
