Transcript hemispheric project teacher education

HEMISPHERIC PROJECT
TEACHER EDUCATION
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
SENATOR HAZEL MANNING
PROJECT TITLE
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RESPONSES TO THE CHALLENGE OF
IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF
RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION[1],
INITIAL FORMATION, PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF
TEACHERS IN THE COUNTRIES IN THE
HEMISPHERE
[1] Questions to be answered in the project proposal will address: the new
selection process and who will be responsible for determining this process (i.e.
teachers, local officers, or national ministries).
SUB-REGIONAL COORDINATORS
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REGIONS
Andean Region
MercoSur
Central America
Caribbean
North America
SUB-REGIONAL COORDINATOR
Ecuador
Bolivia
El Salvador
Trinidad and Tobago
Mexico
PRIORITY AREA
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Education is a priority area in the Strategic
Plan for Partnership for Development 20022005 of the AICD.
 Teacher Education is a recommendation from
the III Summit of the Americas and the II
Meeting of Ministers of Education within the
framework of CIDI.
 CENPE recommended that the FEMCIDI
funds finance multilateral projects.
PROJECT JUSTIFICATION
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High levels of under-achievement
High levels of repetition
Low productivity of students
Poor teacher performance
Low teacher prestige and social value
Inadequate salaries for teachers
Training is not linked to improvements in
professional performance.
PROJECT GOAL
To enhance and improve the
quality of teacher education
with established systematized
hemispheric goals.
PROJECT PURPOSE
To establish regionally standardized
Teacher Education programs.
 To standardize recruitment and
selection policies throughout the regions
 To standardize a Performance
Management System
 To implement on-going professional
development programs.
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SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
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YEAR 1
– Identify and systematize consolidated
experiences in recruitment and selection,
pre-service training, professional
development and teacher evaluation
coherent with a framework that identifies
competencies, capacities and performance
standards for sub-regions.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
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YEARS 2 and 3
– Evaluate the framework and sub-regional goals.
– Develop and implement pilot projects in preservice education, on-going professional
development,evaluation and certification.
– Prepare virtual courses that benefit a minimum of
1000 teacher educators and use the existing
infrastructure in the OAS (EDUSAT, Educative
Portal of the Americas, Institute of Connectivity of
the Americas.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
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YEAR 4
–Organize an Inter-American
Forum on Teacher Education
to analyze the results of
consolidated experiences.
–Propose hemispheric goals
BUDGET
 A detailed
budget for the project
must be worked out by each
region and submitted to the
coordinator by August 22, 2003.
This is to be done using the
Logical Framework.
SUSTAINABILITY AND
INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE PROJECT
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Training of Master Teachers, Heads and
Deans to:
– Facilitate the induction process with new teachers
– Ensure institutionalization of teachers’ new
learning.
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Establish the relationship between and
complementary support for existing projects
and the new hemispheric project.
 Establish a system of support for teachers to
allow them to access training.
POTENTIAL RISKS
If collaboration is not developed with
already existing teacher education
programs, implementation will be
limited.
 Existing projects are in no way related
to the hemispheric project.
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REGIONAL COORDINATOR
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Each coordinator will shape the project
in accordance with their capacities in
terms of human resources,
infrastructure, access to other working
teams, financial resources for
operational expenses and research
done on the field.
SUPPORT OF COUNTRIES
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country desirous of
working with the project must
send official letters of support to
the Inter-American Committee
for Cooperation and
Development.
TECHNICAL SECRETARIAT WILL:
 Support
the documentation of
experiences in the hemisphere to
facilitate the transference of
lessons learned.
 Develop virtual spaces in
coordination with the Educational
Portal of the Americas to support
the training activities for various
educational players in the project.
TECHNICAL SECRETARIAT WILL:
 Organize
virtual forums to
facilitate coordination and
dialogue among different
participants in the development
of the project.
 Support the evaluation process.