TEACHER TRAINING

Education is a key to development, and it is a basic human right to have access to education. In some parts of the world however, human beings are not even secured basic primary education. In countries like Mozambique and Angola only 50% of the children finish their primary education, and a much lower number accordingly will get a secondary or further education.

This fact is a great obstacle to development. People without an education have only few possibilities of creating new opportunities in their own lives and can only contribute little to the development of their country. HUMANA People to People therefore sees at one of its most important tasks to secure people education at many different levels.

As a Development Instructor you can work with education by:

· Educating teachers to work in rural areas.
· Setting up schools for street children.
· Setting up pre-schools for the small children in the rural areas.
· Building schools where schools need to be built.
· Making campaigns in schools to improve facilities and methods of teaching.
· Setting up adult education centers.
· Starting and running vocational schools.

TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGE

Cabo Delgado

(Mozambique)

ABOUT CABO DELGADO

Cabo Delgado is a province in the northeast corner of Mozambique - bordering with Tanzania, the provinces of Niassa and Nampula and to the Indian Ocean. The province is divided into 17 districts and has a population of 1.4 million people. Pemba is the provincial capital. 75% of the population is working as small farmers producing cotton, maize, rice, beans and manioc. Fishing and timber cutting of hardwood are other important sectors.

The province has a growing tourist industry, based in the provincial capital Pemba with its beautiful beaches and coral reefs. In the province there are 338.162 families, 49% have a monthly income below 150,000 mts which is 9,3 USD and 17% have a monthly income between 12 and 24 USD where the main reason is low agricultural productivity. In the province there are 4 hospitals with limited resources and 43 health clinics. The consequences are that many children die because of lack of treatment, medicine or knowledge how to prevent the most common diseases. Malaria and diarrhea are the most common problems.

ABOUT THE EDUCATIONAL SITUATION

In 1997 Cabo Delgado had 557 primary schools and 2230 teachers for the 1-5 class primary education. 121.972 students matriculated. It was an average of 54,7 students pr teacher. Many teachers have only between 6-9 years school background. The lack of teachers or qualified teachers is big. Cabo Delgado has the lowest percentage of educated people in the country. 62,6% of the women and above 6 years have no education and for men it is 39,1%. 33,4% of the women has been to primary school and 0,4% have been to secondary school. 55,7% of the men has been to primary school and 1,3% have been to secondary school. In the districts in the rural areas 97% of the population can’t read and write.

A lack of education influence all aspects of life, which are essential for a good welfare, better economy and the visions for improving ones own situation and development. Cabo Delgado as a province has resources and good potentials for an economic development in a range of areas. There is good agricultural land and only a small fraction is cultivated. There is access to the sea and possibilities to develop fishing. The province has plenty of forests and offers opportunities for forestry, wildlife, and commercial productions in the wake hereof.

THE NEED OF TRAINING TEACHERS

Training teachers makes a lot of sense. Traditionally, teachers play an important role in the local communities. We build on this role and equip the teacher with the necessary knowledge and skills to become an important force in the development of the society. The teacher will not just form the next generation, he will also through his actions and example strengthen the progressive development and become an essential factor both at the school and in the local community. The teacher is in contact with all spheres of life and must be able to supply it with new energy. As an educated person, people will tend to listen to you, to follow your example and to seek advise from you. By training the teacher to live up to these expectations and to use it as an active support of development, teachers can make a difference to the lives of hundreds of people, and to the social and economic development in a community.

When the peace treaty was signed in 1992 ADPP and The Ministry of Education join hands to establish 12 teacher training colleges -one in each province in the country over a period of ten years. At the turn of the millennium 6 teacher training colleges are in process in Mozambique:

· The first teacher training college was started in 1993 in Maputo.
· In 1995 started DNS in Nhamatanda (Sofala Province).
· In 1996 started DNS in Nacala (Nampula Province).
· In 1997 started DNS in Chimoio (Manica Province).
· In 1998 started DNS in Niassa (Niassa Province).
· In 1999 started DNS in Cabo Delgado (Cabo Delgado Province).

Almost 450 primary school teachers have graduated and are now teaching in rural areas in Mozambique.

Another 800 are under training to become teachers.

THE TEACHER TRAINING CENTER IN CABO DELGADO

The Teacher Training Colleges are called "The Teachers Training College for the Teachers of the Future" (Escola de Profesores do Futuro) – or in short EPF. Our Teacher Training College is located in Bilibiza in the district of Quissang, 120 km north from Pemba. The school is a complex consisting of 8000 m2 buildings constructed in 1979. It was planned and started to be a fully equipped agricultural school with 400 students. But since the beginning of the civil war there has been a lack of finances and maintenance. The buildings have been fallen apart and the number of students reduced.

ADPP has been given the school center from the Government to start and to run the teacher training college, take over the management of the Agriculture school and to develop many more activities, a contract for 50 years. We have divided the school center into two parts whereby EPF is functioning in one half and the Agricultural school in the other part. We started to rehabilitate some of the buildings in April. The first group of students started the course in august '99.

By the moment we have more or less rehabilitated the buildings at EPF with a donation from Finida. We are working on to get finances to rehabilitate the Agricultural school and as well to take over the complete management. We have at the moment 110 students at EPF. The first year students are in the second period of the education called “Our country Mozambique” and the second year students are working with the subject “The Charter”, the “second head of a teacher”. It is a subject related to the community work they are going to implement as a teacher. Next year in January they are going for 1-year teaching practice in primary school’s in the province.

At the Agricultural school there are 60 students and as well 1 24 students studying their 6th and 7th class. The level is called EP2. The Agriculture school students study 8th-10th class exam and technical subjects within the agriculture. The students are from Cabo Delgado and Nampula province. They are all boarding school students. Among the 124 EP2 students 90 are boarding school students.

The program comprises  the following periods:
1. The world we live (3 months: August, September, October)
2. Our country: Mozambique (3 months: November, December, January)
3. We continue building our college -The production element (1 month: February)
4. School practice in neighboring schools and further studies at EPF (5 months: March-July)
5. Specialization and Charter Subjects (5 months: August-December)
Specialization in Portuguese, Mathematics or Science.
Charter Subjects are the teacher’s preparation to take a leading role in community development.
6. Teaching in a rural primary school as part of the teacher training (11 months: January-November)
While continuing to study a wide range of subjects.
7. The Pedagogical Workshop (½ month: December)
Course in operating a Pedagogical Workshop, which the teacher will establish in the village where he/she will work. Here, teachers in the area will get access to modern learning facilities.
8. Final examinations (1 and ½ months: December-January)