Professional Development

iEARN-Pakistan continually facilitates teachers training and development programs round the year. The teachers' training and support takes place in different forms:

  1- Sponsored Trainings:

These are mostly 2 or 3 days iEARN teachers/ training programs organized by iEARN-Pakistan in collaboration with iEARN-USA focusing  the different iEARN Programs.  Generally the participants in these trainings programmes are the teachers from the iEARN Project schools for CIVICS, BRIDGE ,  FTE etc.. The Headmasters/Principals/Directors/District Education Officers of the schools apply for becoming a project/member school.

Government schools, NGO, Community schools and schools functioning in underprivileged areas  qualify for all such sponsored training programs.

  The prime purpose of these training programs are to develop professionals who are capable of integrating online project based  online telecommunications activities in their own curriculum and are able to support and assist schools , teachers and students  in their community for participating in iEARN projects.

  2-International Conferences and Trainings:

iEARN-USA Master Trainers Program: As part of the various  iEARN Programs, training and exchange opportunities are available to a limited number of selected teachers from the project schools. These teachers are sponsored to participate in exchange programs and trainings conducted in USA.

 Regional conferences: These are  organized by Regional iEARN Centres e.g -Egypt 2001 and 2003, iEARN-Jordan-2004. iEARN-International Conferences are usually held in the month of July every year in a different country (Moscow in 2002, Japan in 2003, Slovakia in 2004) .

Read about some of the Pakistani participants who attended the overseas exchange and trainings at: http://www.iearnpk.org/activities1.htm

3. Dissemination and Outreach: 

  iEARN-Pakistan also encourages community based voluntary support and dissemination activities by the trained iEARN Teachers and professionals, who have participated in the iEARN National workshops in Pakistan or attended one of the overseas exchange and training programmes. All such professionals are expected  to work with schools in their community and catchments areas and provide voluntary support and workshops to the teachers of these schools. In all such cases iEARN-Pakistan provide full and free of cost, support  to the iEARN teachers. This may include provision of iEARN project booklets, CD ROMs, Videos, assistance in designing the workshop sessions including materials, handouts and slides.

Read about some of the  workshops organised and conducted by iEARN teachers for their schools and community.

  4- Focused Workshops for Individual Schools:

 iEARN-Pakistan facilitates workshops and training programmes for schools interested in organizing iEARN trainings exclusively for their faculty . These workshops can be from day long ‘Beginners’ Workshops’ to three days focused training courses. For these focused and tailored workshops and courses the schools bear the entire cost of training and trainer.

 For organizing a workshop for your school contact: iearnpak@iearnpk.org

  5- Online Professional Development Courses:

iEARN-US offers eight week online teacher training courses in five different subject areas. the courses are  designed to help  K-12 educators learn how to integrate an international online collaborative project into their classrooms. iEARN-US provides scholarships to a limited number of international participants. More then 60  teachers from Pakistan have successfully completed the online courses in the past 3 years.

 Find out more about these courses at http://www.iearn.org/professional/enrollment/html

  6. Visit the website http://www.iearn.org/professional/index.html for some valuable  professional development resources.