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
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