Naryn

A new Course in Education program for teachers of English, Math, and IT in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan started in August 2014. The course for teachers is supported by AKES and AKS. This is the outreach program that brings together 44 teachers from Naryn and Gorno-Badahshan oblasts . The goal of the program is to improve the knowledge and skills of the English language teachers, Math a, and IT and accordingly increase the quality of education of their students. The strategies of the work with the teachers are data collection and analyses of their work with the following training for the teachers.  The pilot groups of teachers were selected in Naryn from 10 schools, and in Gorno- Badahshan  from 10 schools. At the first training with teachers we discussed such issues as “Teacher of the 21st century”, “Teacher's philosophy” and opportunities to enhance the teacher's potential of their work with the students. It was interesting for teachers to discuss new methods of work in the classroom, strategies to conduct lessons on the base of the critical thinking and participate in the discussions and presentations themselves about different pedagogical topics. We considered the way of assessment and evaluation at the lessons with better understanding about the diagnostic, formative, and summative assessment. Another interesting topic was about using of new technology in the classroom with videos, mobile phones, computers, etc. All the teachers were interested in discussing these issues and actively shared their teaching experience and plans for their near future according to the program.