"I personally read all the proposals of the teachers" - Hilola Umarova

As you know, at the recent meeting chaired by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in connection with the "Day of Teachers and Trainers", the "Teacher of the Year" competition was held, and the winning teachers from 208 districts and cities were awarded by the President. It was said that housing will be provided as a substitute.

The Minister of Preschool and School Education, Hilola Umarova, on her official telegram page a week ago, appealed to the teaching staff in order to know how the "Teacher of the Year" contest should be, what aspects should be paid attention to in order to be fair, and what criteria should be used to evaluate the participants. and asked them to send proposals through @uzedu_vazirbot.

According to Hilola Umarova, the minister's application bot received more than a thousand offers in a short period of time and continues to receive them. The minister emphasized that he is personally studying each proposal with his team.

"As I said, every opinion and suggestion is valuable for us. I personally and our team are reading all the proposals that came to the bot," the minister said in the post.

Also, the minister revealed some of the proposals received by pedagogues regarding holding the "Teacher of the Year" competition.

It will be fair to conduct the selection in the form of an online test, just like a category test. Candidates will not have too many questions if the results will be released at that time. I think it will be transparent and fair if the control is organized in the same way as in the category test.

A separate platform should be created. Both the test and previous results must be posted on the platform. The selection must be made by the platform. Open classes should be broadcast online through the Internet and TV channels.

I participated in the "Teacher of the Year" contest in 2016. At that time, we taught in an unfamiliar school and demonstrated our pedagogical skills. After the pandemic, online voting has become "fashionable". I think we need to bring back that "live" form of competition.

I would like to ask that there be less documentation, for example, do you have to go to the test and come undressed, how many years of work experience, what is the category, please do not ask the school director for additional documents, such as a description.

In order to comprehensively evaluate teachers, it is necessary to form a term class and tell them to teach this class, and to determine which teacher has given quality education in the last time, interview and test the students.

Public opinion should be taken into account in the selection of truly dedicated teachers in the field of education. In order to prevent corruption, it would be appropriate if the contributions of each candidate to the development of public education over the years were studied by independent experts. If cases of concealment or exaggeration of information on the part of the candidates are found, strict measures should be taken against them and the school administration.

The republican stage should be held on television in a question-and-answer format, and each stage should have a different panel of judges.

The seniority of the teacher should be made irrelevant. Because we have such young people, they are full of enthusiasm, their pedagogical skills are excellent, they can even show better results than pedagogues with 20 years of experience. The teacher's titles should not be the main aspect either.

I would like to invite not only the teacher in the competition, but also his students to study the results, to set a certain score based on the results, because each tree is evaluated according to its fruit, no matter how beautiful it is, if it does not bear good fruit, it will not be valuable.

Teachers who want to participate in the competition must register on a platform within a certain period of time, just like in the minister's exam (with the same level of difficulty), 30 tests of specialized subjects, 10 tests of pedagogical skills, and the passing score for the next stage must be determined.

Let the first step be a test. If you score less than 80% in the test, you will not be admitted to the second round. Make science olympiad questions like questions. The evaluation process should not include situations beyond the teacher's control, such as clicking likes or collecting votes.

In the "Teacher of the Year" competition, if you look at the achievements of the teacher, teachers of specialized schools have more opportunities. Because they are imparting knowledge to selected students. Therefore, it will be fairer if teachers are given tests and assignments based on their subject and methods. If you are given tasks at the level of international Olympiads in your subject, it is great.

Teachers participating in the competition should be required to know a foreign language, regardless of which subject they are a teacher of, because a modern teacher should know a foreign language in addition to his own language. The most important thing is that the school director or higher officials should not decide whether a teacher will participate in this competition or not.

First the test, then the presentation and interview, and finally writing an essay, for example, how can a teacher contribute to the quality and efficiency of education, what innovations does he make. Essay is a world experience and a clear evaluation criterion.

If the questions to be asked to the teacher were sent from the republic on the day of the competition, no one would have the opportunity to prepare the questions in advance, and this would also ensure justice.

All participants must be evaluated based on the same requirements and criteria. For example, you can focus on the teacher's professional achievements, innovative methods and efficiency in working with students. An independent panel of experts should monitor the selection process and monitor it to prevent bias. It is also necessary to pay attention to the influence of the teacher in the public, his relations with students and parents, and his activity in public life.

Regardless of the conditions of the competition, the judges must be from another district or region. In other words, if there will be a stage in Gijduvon district, whether the teacher conducts an open class or prepares a presentation on a subject, it should be checked by people from other districts, not Gijduvon district. Or there should be conditions under which the name and surname of the participant of the competition will remain anonymous.

There should be a system where parents, professionals and teachers and representatives of the education sector can express their opinions during the selection process!

If a teacher teaches a foreign language or mathematics, informatics, Uzbek language, and how many students he gets a national or international certificate during the year, he is considered the winner of the competition based on this indicator. would have added.