Intensive Teacher Training Programmes
Relating the Family - Social - Cultural Environment to Children's Performance at School
The aim of this project is the training, informing and raising awareness of 5000 participants in relation to the important changes that have occurred over recent decades in the family, social and cultural fields and which affect the learning performance of students. The course will be held at 16 PEKs (Regional Training Centres) throughout the country, with the teaching being done outside participants' working hours. Again the total teaching hours will be 8 per week over 2 consecutive days with a total duration of 48 hours. This should be carried out sometime in 2007.
The aforementioned training course will cover the quality of education provided with the focus on strengthening and reinforcing the role of the teacher. Participants will receive training material covering these two areas.
From these proposals and through both internal and external evaluation, it is certain that useful conclusions will be drawn with regard to both the needs of teachers as well as the priorities that the educational system has to serve.
It has to be emphasized that within the framework of these proposed projects material will be distributed in both printed and electronic format so that it can be used both for future use and distance learning programmes.