International Early Childhood & Teacher Training

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• I learned that professional development or enhancement is priority through out the world.UNESCO’s Teacher Training Initiative is a new 10-year project to dramatically improve teacher training capacities in 46 sub-Saharan countries. The programme is designed to assist countries to synchronize their policies, teacher education, and labour practices with national development priorities for Education for All and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through a series of four-year cycles. 
•  Teacher training for the achievement of Education for All
  
  The acute shortage of qualified teachers has been identified as one of the biggest challenges to EFA. If EFA is to be achieved by 2015, then between 15 and 30 million more teachers are needed worldwide. In sub-Saharan Africa, 4 million additional teachers will be needed by 2015 to meet the goal of Universal Primary Education alone. Additional teachers will be needed for non-formal education and literacy training, as well as in-service training of teachers.
  
  UNESCO recognizes that teacher education is integrally related to quality education and closely linked to curriculum renewal, improved learning outcomes, and a positive school environment. At the end of four years, each country participating in the Teacher Training Initiative is expected to integrate a comprehensive teacher education plan into the national education plan, improve the quality of training in teacher education, address the issues of severe teacher shortage and the status of teachers, and implement an internationally prescribed standard and national policy regarding HIV prevention education. 
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  UNESCO’s Teacher Training initiative is aimed at redirecting policies, improving institutional capacity, improving teacher quality, and stemming the teacher shortage in order to achieve Education for All by 2015.