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4.1 Details of the organisation of the in-service
training for teachers of the ZEP schools
Since 2003, meetings and working sessions were carried out with the teachers of
the ZEP schools at the site of the schools by the Project Manager and offi cers of
the ZEP Unit, mainly to create awareness around the advent of the ZEP project and
to convey the expectations of the initiative. At the same time the teething problems
of the project implementation were addressed and solutions found as the schools
learnt to open up their barriers to the parents and to the community. Such meetings
were carried out during working hours at the school and were done in a way that did
not hamper the running of the school. Either replacement of the teacher participant
was arranged by the Head Master or offi cers of the ZEP (parent mediators) will be
supporting the Head Masters to replace the classes. Private agencies operating in
the sector of education such as OMEP (Organisation Mondiale pour l’Education
Préscolaire/ World Organisation for Early Childhood Education) or ‘Craft Academy’
a Non- Governmental Organisation also helped to foster the momentum aimed to
bring the know-how to motivate the school personnel in alternative ways to cater for
the pupils.
However, the Ministry’s endeavour to formally train the teachers of the ZEP schools
came with the support of the United Nation Development Programme (Mauritius) as
from 2005 where the latter funded the capacity building programmes of the ZEP Unit
for its personnel including the teachers. The 3 major capacity building programmes
sponsored by the UNDP (Mauritius)/ UNESCO are recapped in the table below.
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