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1. Reflexiones Sobre la Capacitacion de Docentes (Reflections on In-Service Teacher Training).

Author

Organization of American States, Washington, DC. Dept. of Educational Affairs. and Valle, Victor M.

Abstract

Everyone concerned with educational systems performance agrees that the improvement of teaching qualities is a high priority in any educational effort. Teachers are assigned the role of change agents and are presented with new challenges, e.g., to make education global and permanent, flexible enough to serve in any environment (in or out of the classroom) for life, and reflective of the community. Teachers have to learn to adapt creatively to changes in science and technology and to prepare generations who are universal, critical, and creative and who have firm identities with their sociocultural background. However, a realistic approach to inservice teacher training should consider that teachers are ordinary human beings with their virtues, defects, duties, and rights. Providing some reflections on inservice teacher training, this paper discusses the rationale for and gives a definition of inservice teacher training. Some characteristics of managers in charge of teacher training programs, the criteria for evaluating the qualities of a training program, and some considerations on suitable methods for teacher training are also provided. A diagram of a learning model based on experience and a chart of 16 steps for learning to learn are included. (NQA)

Published
1981

2. Pautas para Organizar Una Actividad de Capacitacion: Un Seminario-Taller para el Desarrollo de Personal de Direccion de Sistemas Educativos (Guidelines to Organize a Training Activity: A Workshop for Management Development of Educational Systems).

Author

Organization of American States, Washington, DC. Dept. of Educational Affairs. and Valle, Victor M.

Abstract

Often personnel performing managerial functions within educational systems are educators with almost no training in management. This paper presents ideas on how to organize a training activity intended to develop management knowledge and skills among educational systems officials and to implement an organizational self-study on management problems. The paper begins with a conceptual introduction to management development. A detailed description of a proposed workshop covers the following topics: objectives, methodology, general content, material aids, kind of participants, time, place, program, facilitators, expected outcomes, evaluation, and a basic bibliography. Sessions to be carried out during the workshop are described. The possible short-term effects of the activity on organizational performance are noted. The paper also includes a chart of the suggested programming, exercises on determining organizational objectives, a model of the "so-called" management guide, guidelines to make an inventory of management problems, and a matrix to locate tasks and responsibilities of a managerial team. (Author/NQA)

Published
1981

3. Bases Para Organizar Capacitacion en Servicio de Profesionales en Curriculum (Bases for Organizing In-Service Training for Curriculum Specialists).

Author

Organization of American States, Washington, DC. Dept. of Educational Affairs. and Valle, Victor M.

Abstract

There is an increasing awareness of the importance of curricular issues in the educational undertaking. The curriculum, which in all its definitions contains as a common denominator the organization of educational opportunities that schools provide for their pupils, demands and needs some specific type of professional educators. Such professionals are involved in creating conditions to improve the teaching-learning process and have, within themselves, the sign of constant change. Curriculum development is a process of planned change; it is necessary for the organization of continuous activities for training professionals working within the curriculum development and planning realm. This paper presents some ideas about the nature of curriculum, characteristics of professional educators working in curricular matters, recommended traits for needed in-service training, and basic issues that are suitable to keep in mind when training professionals in curriculum. Well-known definitions of curriculum and basic elements of a curriculum development are discussed. The interaction of curriculum and other educational fields is examined. In terms of in-service training for professionals in curriculum, the major traits of such educators and the relevant methodologies for training such educators are discussed. (Author/NQA)

Published
1981