Professional Development in AKS

Conference in Naryn

The methodological conference was organized for teachers of Math, IT and English language in Naryn from 21 to 23 of May. The project was sponsored by the AKES of Kyrgyz Republic. Representatives of oblast and city administration, mayor office, City Educational department, MSDSP, SPCE, mass media, and CEO AKES in KR were at the official ceremony and presentation of the Outreach Project in Naryn.  45 teachers from Naryn oblast villages, AKS Osh, AKEL Khorog were invited to participate at the conference.  Teachers were very interested in discussion of their work, achievement and progress of work in several years. Instructors and teachers presented through the workshops, demo lessons, poster-presentations innovative methods of teaching, shared their experience of work with students and parents.  The most successful topics in the group of English language teachers were “Vocabulary teaching through interactive methods”, “Using posters at the lessons”, “Grammar through games”, “Gender issues in Education”, “The importance of teaching listening using information and communication technologies”, Adjectives and Nouns. Lesson: Finding the criminal in Greenville”. At the same time, Math and IT teachers in their sections used for presentations interactive boards, posters, videos, etc. They discussed about their results in preparation of students to the National tests, Olympiads, use of IT technologies in the classroom, various ways to solve mathematical tasks, effective approaches to use visual aids and handouts in the classroom. Teachers could learn from each other, find their colleagues in different regions and to conduct a network between teachers of different regions.

New knowledge and skills that they have got at the conference definitely will be used by teachers in the classroom. It was the first conference in Naryn for professional development of teachers and there are many applicants who would like to join the program from the new academic year. 

Meeting in Naryn 4-5 May

The implementation of the project "Outreach program"  will be continued in Naryn  and villages. Two coordinators- Burulsun and Ruslan were chosen  for this position. They will work with teachers on sites to monitor their work there and to prepare some general events and activities according to the project work. Regions with working teachers were identified . Responsibilities were clarified at the meeting in Naryn with the program coordinator Natalya from 4 to 5 of May. At the meeting we discussed about the policy and strategies of work in the project; the planning and report writing; the monitoring of the work. The next event in our plan is a conference- so we collect application forms from teachers in different villages, and Naryn city, to conduct a program and to plan a conference for English language, Math and IT teachers.

Coordinators will work in SPCE center where AKES  rents a room for office. Laptop, printer with scanner, and copy machine, photo camera were supplied for them to work in the office.