The Ministry of Education has removed the Nowruz booklet from elementary school assignments
Hamid Tarifi Hosseini, the Deputy of Elementary Education at the Ministry of Education, said regarding the Nowruz program for Iranian elementary schools: ‘We do not have anything in the form of homework and writing, and our recommendation is that no specific homework be given to students.’
He divided the framework of the Nowruz programs into three sections: diverse learning opportunities, Nowruz and storytelling, and friendship with nature and the environment. In explaining the details of the Nowruz assignments for students, he said: ‘We do not have anything in the form of homework and writing, and our recommendation is that no specific homework be given to students. Teachers will specify a series of activities for Nowruz in accordance with the students’ abilities.’
Mr. Tarifi Hosseini, in explaining the three sections of Nowruz activities, said diverse learning opportunities include six educational areas: religious, worship, and moral; social and political; biological and physical; aesthetic and artistic; economic and vocational; and scientific and technological. The Nowruz and storytelling section includes story reading, story writing, and storytelling. He added that the friendship with nature and the environment section involves collaboration with the Physical Education and Health Department, such as spending time in nature and planting saplings.
