A workshop was organized to introduce the field of the Khalifa International Award for Early Learning
“Khalifa Award”: Caring and empowering childhood is an essential pillar for building the student’s personality
Dr. Steven Barnett: Our mission is to support excellence in early education and talent discovery
Abu Dhabi: November 16, 2023
The General Secretariat of the Khalifa Award for Education stressed the importance of caring for and empowering children in the early education stage, as this stage represents an essential foundation for building the student’s personality and discovering and nurturing his talents, in addition to supporting the child in developing these talents by applying the best educational, social and cultural practices as these factors refine the child’s personality and . Excellence in his educational and practical journey.
This came during the practical workshop organized by the Award’s General Secretariat remotely to introduce the field of the Khalifa International Award for Early Learning, the standards and conditions related to this field, and the mechanisms for nomination by those interested from different parts of the world.
Dr. Barnett, Chairman of the Awarding Committee for the Khalifa International Award for Early Learning, and Emma Hadley, Principal Education Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank in the United States of America, winner of the previous session in this field, spoke.
The workshop included a comprehensive scientific presentation of the importance of the field of the Khalifa International Award for Early Learning, which the award presents for the first time in the world, and the objectives of this field and its role in supporting the process of advancing childhood and early education by presenting it at the global level in its two categories in research and studies, programs, curricula, methodologies and teaching methods. This field aims to enrich the culture of excellence and creativity, encourage research and studies, discover and appreciate advanced programs, methodologies and teaching methods, encourage distinguished teachers, activate the role of educational centers, institutions and companies specialized in early childhood, honor the best personal experiences, and pay attention to the field of people of determination in the field of early childhood. And promoting the dissemination of the best studies and most successful practices and methodologies in the field of early education.
It also aims to enhance the various social, physical, mental, intellectual, creative, psychological, cognitive and emotional fields in the years of early education and childhood, and to enrich distinguished innovative education programs, with research, studies, programs, curricula, methodologies and advanced teaching methods in the field of early education. This new field aims to motivate teachers who are the creators of change through best practices and innovation in the field activating and encouraging the role of specialized centres, institutions and education companies in the field of early childhood, introducing the most successful individual experiences in the field of early education, benefiting from the best studies and the most successful programs, methodologies and educational practices in the early childhood stage, and stimulating their application in educational institutions within the country.
The workshop also included a presentation of the JADENKÄ Multicultural Bilingual Nursery Mathematics Project in Panama, which Emma Hadley won in the last session, and the role of this project in promoting bilingualism among children in Panama. She presented her experience in achieving excellence and the most prominent mechanisms she used in the project to achieve its positive effects in Educational field.