Pakistan has now a strong group of teacher trainers, trained in the United States under USAID funded 'Pakistan Teacher Education and Professional Development Program' (PTEPDP) under which 172 Pakistani teacher-educators have been trained in United States since its inception in 2003.
The overall objective of PTEPDP 2003-06, being implemented by US based Academy for Education Development (AED), in collaboration with the Government of Pakistan, is to enhance professional skills of Pakistani teachers to bring them at par with international teaching standards.
This was stated here on Friday night at the inaugural session of a three-day networking workshop for mathematics teaching for last batch of teacher-educators who returned recently after receiving training in three universities of US.
In its later stage, an in-country program would be launched in which the US-trained teacher-educators would train teachers at primary level in different parts of the country.
On this occasion, speakers underlined the need to focus fully on teachers' training and proper teaching methodology in the new competitive world. "The US-trained teacher-educators have great challenge as they are going to transform the society by giving new dimension to teaching methodology", they said.
The speakers, including Program Manager PTEPDP in Pakistan Sofia Imran, Provincial Co-ordinator AED Sohail Mohammad Ali, Dr Mohammad Memon, Director Aga Khan University Institute for Education Development (IED) and others, opined that it was very important that teacher training leaves its impact on classroom by using the latest teaching methodology to teach the children in a more effective way.
"If there is no change in the classroom, then one should ask from oneself and try to find out where the fault lies", they added.
They advised the newly trained teacher-educators to continue to keep themselves updated with the new developments in the teaching field.
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