Ms Luna Shamieh, External Education System, Palestine:
Ms Lubna gave a briefing about the project in Palestine, its success and the research carried out by Beirzet University on evaluating the project. Luna presented the results of the success of the project, rates of satisfaction of different terms of the project (content, trainers, trainers’ knowledge, training methodology, etc.) and areas which teachers were not satisfied with (such as trainer’s guide, an outline, manual, and other issues). The overall feedback was satisfaction and all requested follow-up sessions and recommended other colleagues to the training. 97% have implemented what they have learnt at their school, and mentioned problems they had such as infrastructure obstacles, workload, powerpoint skills, and other issues. 88% expressed their willingness to train other teachers.
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Mr Ahmad Fares, English Language Supervisor, Ministry of Education, Jordan: Ahmad began his presentation by giving a briefing about how ICT in education changed teacher approaches in class, how it benefited the contents and students interacted very well with that. Ahmad also reflected on how to decide when to use ICT in class upon its appropiateness. He also spoke about the cascade training that followed in all parts of Jordan, and how the follow-up sessions helped to improve teachers’ skills who have been trained on using ICT in class, all supported by British Council Jordan.
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Dr Jamal Abdullah, Manager, Vocational and Technical Training Department, Ministry of Education, Syria presented the ICT in Education project in Syria. Dr Jamal gave a briefing about the introduction of the project, its implementations, how it needed in changing the strategies of the educational system, and he also reflected on numbers of teachers trained. He also gave a briefing about the Educational Satellite channel in Syria. Finally, Dr Jamal suggested some recommendations for the project.
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Ms Sumaya Bou Hamad, Think-tank member, Lebanon. Ms. Sumaya gave a briefing about the project in Lebanon, the capacity building of trainers, the training programme and finally, the objectives of training and its calendar.
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Eng. Ossama ElSayed El-Baz, Ministry of Education, Egypt. Osama gave a vision of ICT in the Ministry of Education in Egypt, the capacity building they took in the ministry of developing teacher skills, and how they can implement the use of ICT in class. He also reflected on how this benefited both teachers and students likewise, and how it had influence on student interaction in class.
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Mr Zaher Atweh, Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Palestine. Zaher gave a briefing of the ICT in Education project in Palestine, the objectives, achievements, and trainings given to teachers. He also gave some suggestions of future changes on the project.
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