Dr. Wafaa bint Muhammad bin Suleiman Al-Tajal
An educator passionate about educational sciences. I am proud of my identity.
My message is teaching and learning
My goal is to make children happy
· Means of publishing and experimentation
· My issue is to empower the conscious educator who is able to bear the burdens of education.
Who is she?
Educator and expert in early childhood education and Arabic phonetics
Author , publisher, and researcher who founded “Al-Tarbiyoun” for educational publishing and consulting.
An educational consultant with over 22 years of experience in early childhood education development, she has provided advice and guidance to a number of schools and kindergartens. She has authored and translated a number of educational stories and books, and has designed and prepared distinguished educational programs on various topics, including thinking and language.
The most important areas of excellence
· The “Educators” Publishing Foundation was established to enrich Arabic educational content.
She founded the “Teacher’s Mail” magazine in 2003, becoming the first Saudi woman to hold the position of editor-in-chief of a specialized professional educational magazine that inspires early childhood teachers.
The first to write for children about the lunar and solar months in a sensory, educational way. She repeatedly emphasized the importance of teaching them to children as a fundamental building block, not as a passing fact, but rather as a religious and cultural identity that must be preserved for children.
· Developed a phonemic and phonological awareness scale for children, created the Rubel strategy for phonetic association, and built an educational program and platform to present Arabic phonetics in a sensory manner, based on a learning mechanism based on thinking and fun.
· Launched the first dictionary of Arabic visual links and integrated it into its audio processing program.
She called for teaching children duties as well as rights, and repeatedly stressed the importance of teaching children their duties as they learn their rights, because a confident child is one who is aware of what he has and what he is obligated to do. She also linked it to the personality of the Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, to show that he loved the child and gave him his rights before anyone else in the world. She also has a book, “How Much I Love You.”
I wondered why on International Children's Day we refer to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Children's rights were established in Islam and approved with the Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace. We learned from him how to treat our children with mercy, and there are many situations and hadiths that prove this.
In a number of conferences and scientific papers she presented, she called for the importance of starting to teach Arabic phonetics before the alphabet, and emphasized the sensory method in early education so that the child can decode the language and learn phonemes before words.
The character of the famous information hunter, the Falcon, was created in 2011 at the International Conference on Children's Culture. He travels the country, presenting heritage and strengthening children's national identity.
In every story I write and every program I present, I place “identity” at the heart of the goal. I aspire for children to grow up proud of their language, connected to their community, and understanding their culture. I believe that a child who knows who they are will be more aware, stronger, and able to build their future without losing their roots. Identity is not a lesson we teach, but rather an experience we live with the child, through letters, pictures, stories, and play.
My words
· Let's move towards a living education... starting with a teacher who is alive in heart and mind. Ask questions, read, experiment, and rebuild, because the child deserves living, evolving content like him.
My mind is on fire like a city that never sleeps. In every corner, there is an idea born from another idea. My thoughts move in several paths, and it is difficult to grasp them in one moment. Whoever starts with solutions takes the first step towards overcoming the problem.
It is not enough to teach a child his rights only. It is more important that he knows his duties. Teach him that for every acquired right there is a duty that must be given.
I will continue to teach and learn as long as I live. Obstacles are not the end of the road, but rather the beginning of a force that pushes us forward. When obstacles confront us, we do not retreat or surrender... rather, we become more determined to advance.
The priority is not only in achievement, but also in the lasting impact and the expected reward.
The artist has a journey woven by colors and played by melodies, and the teacher has a journey crafted by mastery and pulsating with minds.
Remember that you are under your child's microscope and what you say has less impact than what you do, so be careful about your actions in front of your children.
· Raising and guiding a child is not an instinct, but rather a skill that is acquired and developed through learning and refinement. So learn how to guide and raise.
Focusing on memorization and indoctrinating information does not build a solid linguistic and cognitive foundation, because memorizing letters directly is a form of injustice to the child and a waste of his time. It is more appropriate to provide opportunities to practice classical Arabic to remove the alienation between it and the child’s hearing and perceptions.
Excerpts from her articles
A right that has a corresponding duty:
Every year when the celebration of the International Children's Day comes, we see everyone, including the media, focusing on the fact that this celebration came because the world finally decided to give the child his rights and approved the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This sends false concepts to the children of Muslims, which is that the Muslim child did not get his rights like the children of the world, and his rights were not decided except with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Engraving in childhood:
The teacher is an artist, and teaching is a fine art. We all know the famous proverb: "Learning at a young age is like engraving on stone." It is a proverb that carries such meaning and precision that it resonates in the conscience of every educator and those interested in raising children. It is from this proverb that I drew inspiration for the title of the podcast I launched: "Engraving at a Young Age." It strongly indicates the value of early education and the profound role that teachers play at this stage. Likewise, the teacher sees the child not as he is today, but as he will be tomorrow. He sees the potential and seeks to refine it.
·Migration is a call for reflection.
In this era, with all that we see of mixing cultures and dissolving heritage and values, the roots of the connection between our children and their Islamic civilization are renewed. They may not deal with the Hijri calendar in their schools and lives. This year, the beginning of the Hijri calendar coincides with the beginning of school, and such stories for children constitute an incentive for a strong start for valiant students of knowledge, able to face challenges and achieve ambitions. May God make it a year full of achievements and a good promise. Happy New Year to everyone....
The Arabic language has seventeen articulation points extending from the nose to the throat, which is a wider range than all the languages of the world. This enables an Arabic speaker to pronounce any other language later on. For example, if a child learns English first, it will be difficult for him to pronounce sounds such as ha, ta, dad, and others. Conversely, if he starts with Arabic, it will not be difficult for him to pronounce any other language. Therefore, it is important that the child is not exposed to a second language before he is able to express himself in his mother tongue and pronounce most of its sounds and has a basic foundation upon which to build his new languages.
Reverse writing
The process of learning to read and write is a complex and intertwined process preceded by many successive and interconnected stages, each building on the other. Without the learner's experience with it, he will not possess the tools of the language and will not be able to decode its audio and visual codes, until he learns how to read and write those symbols with ease.
Do not imagine that a child simply memorizing letters and visually distinguishing them is the basis for learning to write and read. It is worth noting that pressuring a child to speed up this process before he is physically, cognitively, and perceptually ready may cause him many other problems, the simplest of which is reversed writing.
Every language has its own tone that distinguishes it from others, as well as components and connections that must be understood. This does not happen unless the ears become accustomed to that tone and practice understanding the components through the skills of analysis and synthesis.
Segmenting, combining, classifying, and distinguishing some of the sound details of the heard material, thus removing the alienation between the child’s ear and the language with its components, starting with the sound, then the word, then the various forms of expression with the tone and gestures... to increase the child’s ability to classify the heard material more consciously and accurately....
The teacher is the pillar of education
It's wonderful to build schools and educational institutions according to the latest models and the best international standards. It's also wonderful to equip classrooms with modern educational tools, high-quality technology, and various devices. However, the materials remain lifeless. What's most important and beautiful is that the teacher who uses this technology is experienced and proficient, and fully aware of how to present knowledge with or without the presence of technology.
Luxury buildings and advanced technology are wonderful motivators, but they do not constitute the basis of a successful educational process in and of themselves....
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