Objectives:                 

Development of:       

- a teacher´s Professional Profile;

- a tutor´s Professional Profile;

- an Educational Workplace in four Primary Teacher Colleges (PTC) and

- on the Campus of Kyambogo University (KYU) a Curriculum for PTC and guidelines for a new curriculum for KYU-tutortraining.

Description:    

The Project The Vision aims at improvement of the teacher training facilities in Uganda. The products mentioned above are the goals of this process. In developing these products theoretical conceptual frameworks are implemented:

• the Empowerment Triangle stressing the importance of basic concepts like responsibility, safety and care;
• Schedule 1 as a model for constructivistic learning;
• CBAM as a model that links concerns of student-teachers to stages in their study;
• a more or less competence based curriculum model that connects the frameworks mentioned before;
• the Educational Workplace as a learning environment in which designing, developing and training are the active ways in which student-teachers are learning their profession.

In developing the professional profiles and curricula the Ungandan counterpart (KYU) is gaining professional quality in developing these products. The project lasts about four years. The Dutch consultants were visiting Uganda about four times a year, mostly for a week. The Ugandan projectteam and the Vice-president of KYU visited the Netherlands several times for training, planning and excursions to Dutch Educational Workplaces, Teacher Training Colleges and Primary Schools.In the meantime the Ugandan Minister of Education and Sports has approved the Teacher Professional Profile and has ordered to implement this document in the 12000 Primary Schools in Uganda.

Funding:

HOB-program (Dutch governement)