“The seeker of glory, created for success and prepared for work, does not fear the path, but rather makes experiments, draws his steps and does not measure their dimensions.” With this wisdom drawn from long experience and years of experience, the Ministry of Education’s strategy was launched to provide a successful experience of investment in education through human capital, keeping pace with the alphabets of the times. And its digital innovations, based on basic axes through eight new curricula for the secondary stage.
The Ministry of Education based its strategy on a constructive philosophy and applied practices that ensure an active educational climate that is aware of the changing world. So that the student can keep up with everything that is and receive development with broader and more comprehensive horizons. With the aim of bringing about a comprehensive effective change in the secondary stage; To enable students to enroll in scientific and administrative disciplines related to the labor market and future jobs, and to transfer students through an integrated educational journey that facilitates their transition to a post-general education stage.
The role of the arts in shaping the individual’s awareness, feeling and feelings was the focus of the Ministry’s interest, which drew through its innovative content how to benefit from the human artistic achievement throughout history, linking the arts to the lives of learners and introducing them to the importance of art to humans and their role in society, while reviving folk and artistic heritage and folklore and transferring it to serve the community. And provide the learner with the opportunity to practice criticism and appreciation of works of art.
The Ministry's philosophy works to achieve a set of goals; The most important of which is: providing students with technical and personal skills that help them deal with life and respond to the requirements of the stage, and expanding opportunities for graduate students through various options in addition to universities, such as obtaining professional certificates, joining applied colleges, obtaining functional diplomas, and the presence of new study materials that are compatible with the requirements The Fourth Industrial Revolution, development plans, and Vision 2030 aim to develop higher-order thinking skills, problem-solving and research skills, and elective field programs that are consistent with the needs of the labor market and students' tendencies, as students can enroll in a specific elective field according to a matrix of specific functional skills, measuring tendencies that ensure the achievement of students' competence and effectiveness It helps them determine their trends and tendencies, and uncovers their strengths, which enhances their chances of success in the future. Volunteer work is specially designed for students in line with the philosophy of activity in schools and is one of the requirements for graduation. What helps to promote human values, build society and develop its cohesion, bridging that enables students to move from one track to another according to specific mechanisms, mastery classes through which skills are developed and the level of achievement is improved through enrichment and remedial mastery classes, blended education options and distance learning that are built In the system of tracks on the basis of flexibility, harmonization, interaction and effectiveness, a graduation project that helps students to integrate theoretical experiences with applied practices, professional and skill certificates that are awarded to students after completing specific tasks and exams in partnership with specialized agencies.
Thus, the computer science and engineering track, as one of the tracks introduced in the secondary stage, contributes to achieving best practices by investing in human capital, and transforming the student into a participant and producer of science and knowledge while providing him with the necessary skills and experience to complete his studies in specializations commensurate with his inclinations and abilities, or to join the labor market.
Data science
Data science is one of the main subjects in the Computer Science and Engineering track. Which contributes to clarifying the nature of the data and the methods of analyzing it, in a way that helps to benefit from it in understanding reality, making informed decisions, and making useful predictions for the future in several areas of life.
The course aims to introduce students to the importance of data, methods of collecting and evaluating it, how to benefit from it in solving life problems, and its role in decision-making at the personal and societal level, while introducing policies and legislation related to the safe and ethical use of data. It focuses on enhancing computational thinking skills by dealing with data as an available basic resource. It can be used.
This course shows the importance of big data, methods of analyzing and classifying it, its characteristics, sources, technologies, applications and areas of benefit from it in the educational and economic fields, and introduces artificial intelligence algorithms, machine learning and their role in the data system.
This course includes applied works of what the student learns to solve realistic problems that simulate his knowledge levels under the guidance and supervision of the teacher.
The data science book is characterized by modern methods, in which the elements of attraction and suspense are available, which make students accept to learn and interact with it through the various exercises and activities it provides.
This book emphasizes important aspects of teaching and learning data, represented in the close interdependence between the contents, situations and life problems, the diversity of methods for presenting the content in an attractive and interesting way, highlighting the role of the learner in the teaching and learning processes, interest in the interdependence of its contents, which makes it an integrated whole, interest in employing appropriate technologies In different situations, paying attention to employing various methods in evaluating students in proportion to their individual differences.
digital technology
This curriculum targets the concepts of digital transformation, the impact of digital transformation on companies and society, the role of artificial intelligence and data in digital transformation, data ethics in artificial intelligence, future developments in the field of artificial intelligence, and artificial intelligence using programming.
And applications of artificial intelligence in life, future developments in the field of artificial intelligence, designing a model that analyzes past data to predict future data.
Arts
This curriculum aims to identify artistic achievements in different civilizations, and benefit from the human artistic achievement throughout history, linking arts to the lives of learners and introducing them to the importance of art for humans and its role in society, understanding the role of art in guiding the aesthetic behavior of the individual and society, preserving the environment, economic growth and its relationship to industry and marketing, reviving Popular and artistic heritage and folklore and its transmission in a way that serves the community and consolidates the heritage, providing the learner with the opportunity to practice criticism and appreciation of works of art, and developing creative thinking (fluency, flexibility, originality) through artistic activities, meeting the needs and desires of the learner through the production of various works of art, and keeping pace with artistic development and inventions Modern in the field of digital and graphic arts, promoting the values of cooperation, accepting others, and working in a group spirit, producing a quarterly project that includes the use of at least two types of plastic art.
Fitness and health culture
Through this curriculum, health concepts are promoted among students and their acquisition of cognitive competencies and skills to maintain personal health and physical fitness, prevent diseases and injuries, and raise awareness of safety.
avoid risky health-related behaviors and provide realistic learning experiences with personalized applications of health knowledge and skills.
This curriculum includes 7 chapters: (Health and Wellness, Physical Activity, Physical Fitness, Nutrition, Personal Safety, Mental Health, Drug and Smoking Prevention).
It was taken into account in the book to support the educational content with activities that enhance understanding of the content, such as linking the content with the reality of life, and the practice of directed discovery and critical thinking.
Principles of Economics
Through it, the student will learn about the nature of economic events and be able to understand their patterns, while presenting theories in an easy and simplified way, with many direct and indirect examples. This approach includes the definition of economics, microeconomics, goods, services and resources, the economic problem and economic systems, demand and supply, market balance, flexibility of supply, the concept of economic development, its objectives, requirements and indicators, in addition to economic development in Saudi Arabia, international trade, balance of payments, exchange rate, the World Trade Organization, Inflation, recession, unemployment and other important topics.
Engineering
The engineering science curriculum is distinguished by an integrated and homogeneous theoretical and practical content that stimulates an interactive learning environment through exercises, activities and projects that reflect concrete life practices. This book emphasizes important aspects of teaching and learning engineering, represented in: linking the practical aspect with various life applications, interest in employing engineering in various fields, smooth presentation of theoretical content and its practical applications, diversification of content presentation in an attractive and interesting manner, and employment of computer applications in trainings, activities and projects.
Introduction to business
Providing students with basic concepts in the worlds of business and economics, the activities carried out by business organizations and the tasks necessary for success in the field of work, and getting acquainted with the economic cycle and its various stages, introducing students to the economy in the Kingdom and initiatives aimed at diversifying sources of income through additional sectors; In accordance with the Saudi Vision 2030, introducing the different types of business organizations, the advantages and disadvantages of each of them, the foundations for building and organizing business organizations, understanding the functions and tasks of human resources in business organizations such as job analysis, recruitment, selection, training, development and performance evaluation, and providing students with work ethics and the basic principles of ethical behavior in business organizations, In addition to introducing them to the concept of social responsibility for business organizations.
Business decision making
In the curriculum, the student acquires practical knowledge for decision-making, understanding them, finding appropriate solutions to business problems, and benefiting from them in understanding reality and making future decisions, identifying problems, finding the most important ways to solve them, knowing the available alternatives, and how to choose the optimal alternative using intuitive or methodical thinking, while making decisions at the level Personal, community and professional skills, enhancing critical thinking and decision-making skills within the joint groups, and demonstrating the importance of using quantitative methods in decision-making.
It also includes practical and technical exercises for what students learn, encouraging the solution of realistic problems that simulate the students' levels of knowledge under the supervision of the teacher, and promoting creative and innovative thinking by using technical tools that support the methodology of decision-making using modern methods.
The new curriculum for the secondary stage:
Data science
digital technology
Fitness and health culture
Arts
Engineering
Principles of Economics
Introduction to business
Business decision making
Taher Al-Husari (Jeddah) @taher_ibrahim0