The 20th UNESCO-APEID Hiroshima Seminar on Teacher Education will be held on March 5-9, 2007.



Theme:

Innovation and Reform in Teacher Education in Asia and the Pacific Region: Improving the Teacher Evaluation System



Objective:

Hiroshima University, as the UNESCO-APEID Associated Center, has been organizing international seminars on educational development annually since 1987 and is now organizing the fifth seminar in the 7th Cycle (2002-2007) of Asia and the Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) in its designated program area of "teacher education". In this cycle, UNESCO-APEID Hiroshima Seminar intends to examine the problems and issues related to teacher education in Asia and the Pacific Region, exchange experiences concerning the efforts to improve teacher education, and design national and international cooperative frameworks and action plans to improve them.

Needless to say, the quality of education largely depends on the quality of teachers. However, many countries still have difficulties in securing competent teachers to their schools. To overcome this persistent problem, teacher education and development must be improved continually, and effective and efficient way to provide it must be explored.

In this year, practices of teacher evaluation as well as problems and issues related to competencies of primary and secondary teachers and their performances in Asia and Pacific Region will be examined, and how to improve teacher evaluation system to improve teacher competencies will be discussed.



Schedule: 5-9 March 2007

5 (Mon) 14:00-14:40 Opening Ceremony (IDEC)

15:10-16:10 Keynote Speech "Developing Teacher Professional Standards as a Measure of Teacher Performance and a Tool for Teacher Professional Development: A Trend in Improving Teacher Evaluation System in Asia-Pacific Region" by Dr. Zhou Nan-zhao (Professor, China National Institute of Educational Research and Director, International Center of Teacher Education, East China Normal University))

6 (Tue) 9:30-11:45 Country Report (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand) and Open Forum

13:30-17:00 Country Report (China, Nepal, Philippines, Japan) and Open Forum

7 (Wed) All day Visit to Schools

8 (Thu) 9:30-17:00 Visit to Prefecture's Education Center, and Plenary Session

9 (Fri) 9:30-16:00 Plenary Session and Closing Ceremony



Participants:

China:

Dr. Zhou, Nan-zhao

Professor, china National Institute of Educational Research, and

Director and Professor, International Center of Teacher Education, East China Normal University



Dr. Li Zhao

Assistant Director,

International Center of Teacher Education

East china Normal University



Indonesia:

Mr. Yayan Trisakti

Head of Program Evaluation, Planning Division

Secretariat of Directorate General of Quality Improvement of Teachers and Educational Staff

Ministry of Education



Malaysia:

Mr. Shaari bin Osman

Assistant Director, Teacher Education Division

Ministry of Education - Malaysia



Nepal:

Dr. Leela Pradhan

Professor, College of Education

Tribhuvan University



Philippines:

Ms. Zaida T. Azcueta

Chief, Staff Development Division

Human Resource Development Service

Department of Education



Dr. Virgilio U. Manzano

Professor, College of Education

University of the Philippines



Dr. Amelia C. Fajardo

Assistant Professor, College of Education

University of the Philippines



Thailand:

Ms. Cherapan Poonnakaseam

Director of General administration Bureau

Office of the Education Council

Ministry of Education



Venue:

Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation (IDEC)

Hiroshima University



Language:

English



Sponsors:

Hiroshima University UNESCO-APEID Project Committee

Japanese National Commission for UNESCO

UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education





Enquiry:

Dr. Yoshinori Tabata

Chairperson, UNESCO-APEID Seminar Committee

Phone: +81 82-424-6937

E-mail: tabata@Hiroshima-u.ac.jp