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CIT Main Page Current Projects Past Projects START Links Armenia Benin Caribbean Eritrea Ethiopia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Mali Mongolia Pakistan Russia South Africa Tajikistan Turkmenistan Ukraine Uzbekistan West Bank/Gaza Zambia USAID/Washington E-Learning How to Become a Training Provider Proposal Development	Who We Are • What We Do Pakistan Teacher Education and Professional Development Program (PTEPDP) Pakistan In July 2003, the Academy for Educational Development (AED) was awarded a three-year contract by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) under its Strategic Technical Assistance for Results through Training (START) Program to implement programs aimed at providing Pakistani educators with the knowledge, training, and infrastructure necessary to develop high quality education programs for girls and boys throughout Pakistan. The quality of learning and competency level of both students and teachers in Pakistan is among the poorest in the region. One of the reasons is the low level of educational qualifications required to become a primary school teacher. Another is the quality of teacher certification programs, which suffers from the lack of adequately trained trainers, little emphasis on teaching practice and non-existence of proper support/monitoring system for teachers. The overall objective of PTEPDP was to increase the base of skilled, high performing Pakistani school administrators and teachers in the teaching of mathematics, science and English as a second language, and to promote cultural understanding between the US and Pakistan. These professional development programs will be customized to reflect needs identified as critical to Pakistani educators. By the end of the Project, 172 Pakistani teacher educators have completed their certificate programs of study in the US. All of the participants were provided an opportunity to join US professional membership organizations, including the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), the National Science Teachers’ Association (NSTA), and the National Council of Teachers’ of Mathematics (NCTM), among others. Each participant also received a laptop computer to take back to their home institutions. The project also included in-country workshops and seminars, as well as university linkages and partnership activities such as faculty exchanges and joint curriculum development projects. The second stage of the Program focused on in-country training of an increased number of master teacher trainers, while continuing to build the capacity of Pakistani teacher training institutions and facilitating long-range linkages between US teacher training institutions and their counterparts in Pakistan. For the news articles on PTEPDP, please click here. For the Photo Gallery, please click here. PTEPDP Academic Partners: University of Montana, Office of International Programs http://www.umt.edu/oip/ George Mason University, Graduate School of Education http://gse.gmu.edu/ Oregon State University, the New School of Education http://oregonstate.edu/education/	• Where We Work Current RFPs PTEPD News Project Stories Publications & Reports Contact Us Site Map
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