The Islamic University- Gaza Deanery of Higher Education Faculty of ...

Participant 1 : we dream of a day that we find a day fortraining..teachers are off of their regular work and theycome only for training …this will give us morestimulation and it will give them more motivation toshare.Participant 5 : the success of our training programmedepends on the trainees themselves, their desire andcommitments..that's all…Interviewer : trainees, how can you describe them?Participant 4 : we still can find trainees who are lets say,highly motivated, they are willing to acquire more, andmore, to exchange experience.Participant 5 : newly-appointed teachers are moremotivated, to attend but these are who have five or tenyears are not..they are…Participant 2 : complaining all the timeParticipant 5 : yes they complain, because of lack ofincentives…Participant 6 : sometime you can find those who don'ttry to develop themselves.Participant 4 : once again…individual differences.Participant 3 : change is something difficult, peopledon't like to change, they believe that there is nothingbetter they can do…you..are..shaking their professionalsecurity and stability.Participant 5 : the problem is that when you nominateanyone of such group, he finds himself off cast amonghis colleagues.Interview : my final question now, what changes do youthink are necessary to improve any future programme?Participant 2 : we had a lot of changes..my colleagueshave mentioned …now we give trainees more practice,we try to build our own training materials, according toour needs, teachers needs, we relate training withschools, the curriculum, teachers working on, becauseon the previous days..programmes, there wasn't a linkbetween the training materials and what we are teachinghere in the Palestinian curriculum.. we start to have ourown different programme, according to differentteachers needs and teachers groups " we feel that we canbe better and we need to be better"I think that the reinforcement, the rewards would help inorder to motivate our teachers, if you attend thisinconvenient timinghighly motivatedwilling to acquiremore, and more, toexchange experience.newly-appointedteachers are moremotivatedcomplainingcomplain, because oflack of incentives…who don't try todevelop themselves.individual differencesshaking theirprofessional securityand stability.Off- cast among hiscolleagues.give trainees morepracticebuild our own trainingmaterials, according toour needs, teachersneedwe relate training withschools, thecurriculum, teachersworking on, because onthe previousdays..programmes,there wasn't a linkbetween the trainingmaterials and what we231