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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan - The teacher training college in Lashkar Gah is accepting students to be properly trained and educated as future Afghan teachers. This is not new. The college has been in existence for more than 42 years. What is new, are the teaching certification programs the school now offers.
To continue re-building the education infrastructure of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Education is using facilities like this one, to certify Afghans as professional teachers.
Since 2005, short-term courses were given to more than 123,000 teachers throughout the country on teaching techniques and subject matter. An additional 20,000 teachers received diplomas through the two-year in-service teacher education program throughout the 42 teacher training colleges nationwide.
The MoE is making progress on improving teacher teaching techniques and the students’ subject matter knowledge within the teacher training college.
The quality of teacher education here is improving with each new graduating class.
Muhammed Musa, deputy director of the TTC in Lashkar Gah, says there are two categories students have if they want to attend the college and become teachers; in-service and pre-service programs.
“In-service training students have already graduated from high school and must attend a two-year program to become a professional teacher,” said Musa. “The pre-service training teachers are recruited after they have graduated from the tenth grade in high school and must complete a four-year program to become a professional teacher.”
The teachers attending the college are educated in a wide variety of subjects, but only teach one subject after they graduate from the college.
“Once the teacher is trained on a specific subject they have command of that subject, and they understand how to convey the knowledge to their students,” said Musa.
“A well trained teacher can play a vital role in the improvement in the education system of a society, and every year we have made (significant) improvements in the teachers’ quality of education,” said Musa. “This place can make great strides in the improvement of education in Afghanistan.”
Students are thankful for the opportunity to be attending the college in Helmand.
“I feel relieved to be here because our country has been war torn for a long time, and now with the coming of the coalition forces our educational system is improving,” said
John Muhammed Shezad, a student attending the TTC.
Shezad believes that by attending the college he can help Helmand province and his country become a great nation again.
Shezad explained how his hope is to take Afghanistan out of a dark situation and into a brighter one; referring to the fact that many Afghans blame guns and violence as the source of the country’s woes.
He wants to train a new Afghan generation at the educational level in order for his country to compete internationally.
| Date Taken: | 10.07.2010 |
| Date Posted: | 10.08.2010 07:42 |
| Story ID: | 57732 |
| Location: | LASHKAR GAH, AF |
| Web Views: | 173 |
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