Activating partnership among schools and institutes of education as approach of professional development for teachers and educational leaders in Egypt

Author(s):

Gomaa TohamyOsama Korany

Conference:

ECER 2009

Network:

15. Research Partnerships in Education

Format:

Paper

Session Information

15 SES 06, Teacher's Trainee

Paper Session

Time:

2009-09-29

10:30-12:00

Room:

JUR, HS 16

Chair:

Marina Sacilotto-Vasylenko

Contribution

This paper aims at identifying: the aspects of partnership among schools and institutes of education, the methods and programs of professional development for teachers and educational leaders in Egypt , mechanisms of professional development for teachers and leaders and finally setup proposed model for professional development for teachers and leaders by using partnership among schools and institutes of education.

Method

The systems approach will be used in this paper to identify the dimensions of the proposed system (inputs, process, and outputs) for partnership among schools and institutes of education. Show the various foreign practices and show the reality to setup this proposed system. In this paper, we will use Delphi technique to make a pilot study about the proposed system that will be applied to experts to reach to the final form of the proposal.

Expected Outcomes

The expected results of this paper are: setting up a proposed model of professional development for teachers and leaders in Egypt via using partnership among schools and institutes of education .Using financial , physical and human facilities of schools and institutes of education to provide programs of professional development at the institutional level (schools and institutes of education) and at the individual level (teachers , leaders and staff ) . Activating the role of units (centers) of training and evaluation in schools, activating the role board of trustees, parents and teachers and activating the role of centers of training and society services in institutes of education.

References

References: 1. Soulim , E.Mohamed (2002)," dimensions of professional development for pre-higher education teachers : theory and practice " ,journal of educational research , national center for educational researches and development, Egypt , year (1) , no (1). 2. Thompson, -Scott- D(1991) Principal for America 2000, so soul Reel journal citation ): journal of school Leadership . 3. Taylor, N. (1996) ‘Professionalism and Monitoring CPD: Kafka Revisited’, Planning Practice and Research 11(4): 379–89. 4. Thorpe, R., Woodall, J., Sadler-Smith, E. and Gold, J. (2004) ‘Studying CPD in Professional Life’, British Journal of Occupational Learning 2(2): 3–20. 5. Toulmin, S. (1999) ‘Knowledge As Shared Procedures’, in Y. Engeström, R. Miettinen and R. Punamäki (eds) Perspectives on Activity Theory, pp. 53–64. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Tsoukas, H. (2000) ‘Knowledge as Action, Organization as Theory: Reflections on Organizational Knowledge’, Emergence 2(4): 104–12.

Author Information

Gomaa Tohamy

faculty of education

foundations of education

Beni-Suef

Osama Korany

faculty of education, Egypt

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