Monday, April 4th, 2022, a double event took place at the Lycée National of Pétion-ville, the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the "Bernard Reform" and the reception of 50 young teachers present at this celebration out of the 500 new teachers integrated into the education system, for the different series of renovated secondary.

This was an opportunity for Nesmy Manigat, the Minister of National Education to emphasize the importance of the "Bernard Reform", considered the alpha of all the acts of reform undertaken in the Haitian education system since the 1980s.

"It is thanks to this reform that Creole reached the baccalaureate exam. We are fighting harder every day to make reform a reality in the country."

Let's recall that this Reform launched in 1979 by the Minister Joseph Bernard marked the Haitian education system and had as main objectives :

• The establishment of primary school. Comprising three cycles with a total duration of ten years (subsequently reduced to 9 years), the basic school would replace the traditional primary school and the first three years of secondary school. The third cycle, lasting three years with its two options (general education and technical and vocational education), should offer either an opening into the labor market or the continuation of schooling in a secondary education that has not yet been redefined;

• The introduction of new teaching methods based on the scientific method (observation, discovery, experimentation, practice of reasoning, etc...) replacing the traditional learning methods based, among other things, on training and systematic memorization;

• Automatic promotion within educational cycles;

• The use of the pupils' mother tongue (Creole) as the language of instruction in order to ensure an environment more conducive to communication and therefore to learning;

• Training and retraining programs to improve the teaching performance of teaching staff;

• The development of teaching materials and the free distribution of these materials to students;

• Strengthening the administrative and pedagogical supervision of schools with the help of a body of inspectors and pedagogical advisers responsible for overseeing the implementation of the reform.

The Minister Manigat took the opportunity to highlight the various actions in progress and in perspective, related to the https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11781-haiti-education-exam-results-disappointing-the-minister-manigat-announced-a-package-of-measures.html which follow almost to the letter, the "Bernard Reform" which aims at the recovery of the sector with a view to quality education, accessible to all which takes into account the new technologies.

In addition, Manigat was pleased to have hired new young teachers who, for the most part, are preparing to offer their services, particularly at the level of the general education sector of the renovated Secondary where they will teach: in Life and Earth, Sciences, Mathematics and Physics, Economics and Social Sciences, Letters, Languages ​​and Arts.

He also praised the qualifications of the latter, who are all graduate students from the Accelerated Initial Training (FIA), the Fundamental School Training Center (CFEF), the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), the National School of Applied Geology (ENGA), the National School of Arts (ENARTS), and the Faculty of Law and Economics (FDSE). Note that each of these new teachers will receive a digital tablet during the month of April.

While strengthening the place of Creole in education, Minister Manigat did not fail to draw attention to the need to pay more attention to other international languages ​​such as English and Spanish, whose number of speakers increases from year to year among young Haitians who are under 35 years old and who represent nearly 70% of the population.

HL/ HaitiLibre