Creative’s Improving Training for Quality Advancement in National Education project supported Morocco’s Education Ministry in improving teachers’ pedagogical practice, preventing middle school dropouts, and developing innovative and practical teacher training materials for nationwide use. Fue financiado por los EE.UU.. Agencia para el Desarrollo Internacional.
En sus casi cinco años, the project delivered in-service professional development to more than 3,000 profesores. Mientras tanto, más que 4,400 Los formadores de docentes recién contratados recibieron cursos previos al servicio..
Creative worked with the Education Ministry to update 12 módulos de formación docente de secundaria, integrating e-learning into some of these modules and extending the scope of training to in-service as well as pre-service teachers.
Creative partnered with the International Youth Foundation to introduce Life Skills Clubs into the after-school offerings of more than 95 percent of middle schools in the two regions. Más que 650 teachers were trained to deliver the Life Skills curriculum, and the clubs reached nearly 10,500 estudiantes. Participating students tripled their scores on a test of employability skills, while a control group improved their skills by only a few percentage points.
Los jóvenes hablan, a youth-led research activity, engaged young people in an open dialogue about the causes for dropout and the possible solutions to the problem.
Through these and other factors, the dropout rate saw an 18.77 percent decrease nationally and a 44.23 percent decrease in the project’s two target regions (Doukkala-Abda and Fes-Boulmane).
