Activity report for 1996(PDF) - Soros Foundation Moldova

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aObjective 2. Training of trainers.The first Training of Trainers seminar “SchoolImprovement and Effectiveness” was implemented inOctober. Two local trainers and 4 trainers from Bucharest,Romania were invited. About 70 education specialistsin Humanities and school administrators participatedin several workshops. The aim was to identify qualifiedteachers that can become trainers after training. InOctober and December 10 people benefited from atraining program at the “Centre for Personality Development”(Moscow, Russia). Several other people from the“Potential Trainers” group benefited from another trainingdescribed under Objective 4.Objective 3. Planning workshop for School Directorsand Team Leaders.In the first week of November, a planning workshopfor School Directors and Team Leaders took place todevelop an action of planning teams’ and resourceCentres’ activity. Its result consisted of an approval ofthe Status of the Resource Centre and a detailed workplan for a 3 month period.Objective 4. In/ Service Teacher Training - ComplexTraining Strategies for School Teams at the InternationalLanguage Centre in Iasi, Romania.Several training centres from Russia, Romania andFrance were identified as potential partners for thisparticular field. SFM and International LanguageCentre from Iasi signed a contract for implementationof a 3 stage training program for Humanities teachersand administrators of the Network Schools. InDecember 1996, 42 school administrators, teamleaders and potential teacher trainers went through acourse in education management. The program willcontinue in 1997, targeting the school teams that willtransmit the knowledge and skills to colleagues fromtheir school and to organise training activities forteaching staff in the neighbouring schools.Expenditures:Teacher Training (training with foreign experts): $ 5,750.00Training Programs for School Teams: $ 46,914.00Local training activities: $ 641.00Translation of materials: $ 2,088.00Site visits: $ 755.00Total: $ 56,148.00TRAVEL AT CONFERENCES AND SEMINARSThe Soros Foundation supported the participation ofMoldovan representatives at different internationalactivities in the field of education, internships andpostgraduate studies.International Congress on Electricity Applications$ 852.30, Birminghem, UKTudor STANCIUIFLA Conference, $ 2,184.00, Beiging, ChinaSilvia GHINCULOVLidia CULICOVSCHIXVII Congress of ICO, $ 600.00, Taejon, KoreaNicolae ENACHICongress of the Geophisic Society, $509.00Balcans, Athenes, GreeceAnatol DRUMEASchool on Advanced Electronic Technology, $104.00Sozopol, BulgariaOlga TATARINSCAIAInternational Conference “Legislation in biology”$ 652.94, Concil of Europe, Warsaw, PoloniaTatiana ISCHIMJIInternship at Waldorf College, $ 799.13Stuttgart, GermanyA group of profesors from Waldorf School, ChisinauInternational Conference of “Waldorf” teachers$ 451.00 Dornah, SwitzerlandAlexei FRUNZAInternational Conference of “Waldorf” teachers$ 451.00, Dornah, SwitzerlandElena CIRCIUMARUAnnual contest of Latin Language “CERTAMENCiceronianum Arpinas”, $ 1,514.00 Arpino, ItalyVictoria FONARI, professor, a grup of pupils from“Dante Alighieri” Lyceum12a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6