| Project Detail |
The objective of the Additional Financing (AF) to Teacher Education Project is to improve the competencies and skills of class teachers teaching grades one to four in West Bank and Gaza thereby contributing to enhancing student learning in primary schools. The AF operation will continue to support the implementation of the teacher education component of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MOEHE)’s Education Development Strategic Plan (EDSP, 2014-2019). More specifically, the AF will finance the scaling-up of activities that will enhance the project’s impact and development effectiveness by: (i) ensuring that achievements gained in the pilot stage (or first phase) of TEIP will be maintained (i.e., sustainability); (ii) facilitating the extension of both components of TEIP to additional institutions involved in teacher education in West Bank and Gaza (WBG); (iii) supporting further progress towards bringing teacher education and teaching in WBG closer to international good-practice norms. This implies setting up a national policy in the area of teacher professional development which will bring together the higher education system and the relevant governmental agencies, notably the National Institution for Educational Training (NIET) and the Directorate General for Supervision and Qualification (DSQ), in charge of teacher development; and (iv) enabling and adding value to the eventual implementation of the curriculum reform, now at design stage, for primary education. By focusing on improving teacher quality and student learning outcomes, especially for the most vulnerable, the AF will directly contribute to the twin goals of eliminating extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. In addition, the AF is being proposed while a major shift in strategic thinking is taking place within the MOEHE that includes an increased focus on results, and on overcoming c |
