High School: Challenges and Development
admin According to the RA Law on General Education, the secondary general education in the Republic of Armenia is carried out in a three-stage system of general education: The first two…
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The Incompatibility of State Educational Standards and Final Examinations
For many years, the interpretation of final state and school examination results, that aim to evaluate the efficacy of academic curricula, remind us of a particular joke. Every year, it…
Two Histories and One Border
The raindrops of anger “No matter how heavy the rain is, no matter how cold the storm is, you shouldn’t curse what the clouds found right for us. This is…
Persian is a Means to Get to Know Our Powerful Neighbour Better
The third foreign language is not compulsory in the EduComplex: it is optional, and the learner is free to choose or not to choose it. Mr. Ashot Bleyan’s diary note…
On the Same Subject Again
The Assessment and Testing Center (ATC) deputy director’s announcement about the 9th graders’ centralized external examination gave an opportunity to continue talking about the assessment issues at public schools. Why…
I Have a Covenant, Always to Light
A new emphasis in my jubilee 1500th diary note … It seems to me that our ancestors had another way of emphasis. The prosody of ancient melodies and unknown Armenian…
We All Need to Change
Extracts from Mr. Ashot Bleyan’s diary notes for November 2018. An extract from the diary note for the 19th of November: To be, that’s the question. This is my 1499th…
From Home to Home: People, Fates
Jenre: Portrait Interview This is educational and country-studies work done in the form of live documentation in the formerly Azerbaijani-inhabited villages of Vayots Dzor, Tavush and Gegharkunik. The heroes of…
Make a Step, Join Bleyan Open Educational Network!
My diary note is a new announcement, an answer to possible questions. Why doesn’t our pedagogy come up to the locality of your dwelling place? We are prepared to create…
The Opportunities of Cooperative Learning
Cooperative teaching is not anything new in the world. For example, still in the 1970s American sociologist and psychologist Eliot Aronson invented the “Jigsaw” cooperative learning method to mitigate the…