MASHAV: Professional Development Course for In-Service Teachers

Deadline: 13 October 2015

MASHAV – Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation is inviting professionals to participate in the Professional Development for In-Service Teachers training course.

The Israeli education system wants to decentralize, modernize, upgrade, and raise the quality of the teaching/learning system in the light of global and regional changes.

Aims

To promote professional development teaching in such a way as to prepare personnel for the future in a systematic yet flexible manner
To train future-oriented pre-service and in-service teaching staff to meet the needs of the urban education environment 5, 10, and 20 years down the road
To transform the Teaching Development Center into a proactive, innovation-based organization
To facilitate progressive thinking, leading to educational breakthroughs
To prototype, develop, and implement new teaching paradigms, methods, and tools
To create a lively, warm, and stimulating professional home for teaching staff
To provide space, context, process, and incentive for an ongoing community-wide conversation concerning education in general and teaching-staff development in particular
To encourage relevant stakeholders—including teachers, parents, the business sector, senior citizens, artists, municipal officeholders, and children themselves—to play an active role in creating a better education system.

Thematic Areas

Presentation of diverse forms of in-service training and methods of adaptation to changes occurring in the education system
Exposition of the latest concepts, methods, and tools in educational-staff training
Analysis of different modules for in-service teacher training and defined training goals
Training facilitators to support teachers in the field
Curriculum design based on developmentally-appropriate practices
Design of integrative teaching/learning units
Elaboration on additional resources for self-development and enrichment
Examination of the educator’s role as school leader, including discussions regarding teamwork and formulation of school visions
Exercises for motivating and empowering teachers: self-reliance, self-learning, and self-evaluation
Networking with teachers and educators in order to enhance knowledge, broaden views, and generate ideas
Analysis of the place and role of educational staff in national development
Frameworks and methods for using the internet and ICT in education