UNESCO-IICBA à l’intention d’organiser une évaluation de ces politiques et programmes de formation des enseignants dans certains pays d'Afrique de l’Ouest en mettant l’accent sur le genre. Pour ce faire, l’Institut est à la recherche de chercheurs qui conduiront l'évaluation avec l'appui du personnel du siège de IICBA, à Addis-Abeba, Éthiopie. Cet appel vise, par conséquent, à demander aux chercheurs intéressés d’envoyer leurs CV et lettres de motivation à IICBA. Le plan détaillé de l'évaluation est présenté ci-dessous.

IICBA organized its first sub-regional workshop for the Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS), from July 14 to 16, 2009,in which 11 out of 15 countries participated in the Ouagadougou workshop, with the objectives of :

• Identifying the teacher competencies applicable in the African context

• Developing a framework of ICT-enhanced teacher standards for Africa

• Validating the developed framework at regional level

This workshop which was organized for ECOWAS countries as part of a series of four workshops was opened and closed by H.E Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Basic Education and Literacy, Mr. Ousseni Tamboura. The three days workshop began by a remark from Mr. Julien Dabué about the vision, mission and present activities of IICBA. This was followed by an overview of ICT-enhanced teacher standards by Mr. Temechegn Engida. The third presentation was given by Mr. Abdoulaye Barry on the state of education in West African countries.

Participants then presented a brief report about the state of ICT and teacher education in their respective countries. The major work on development of ICT-enhanced teacher standards began by breakout sessions in which participants were working in three groups to identify relevant broad standards and the respective competencies and indicators for each stage of the model proposed by IICBA. Each breakout session was followed by group report and discussion.

The sub-regional workshop has brought a number of professionals from different countries of ECOWAS, both Francophone and Anglophone.

Two pilot testing workshops were conducted in Freetown, Sierra Leone from 23-27 February 2009 and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 23-27 March, 2009.

The workshop in Freetown was officially opened by the Deputy Minster of Education, Youth and Sports of Sierra Leone, Dr. Lansana Nyalley. In his opening remarks, Dr Nyalley appreciated the good work that UNESCO and IICBA are doing in his country, and pledged to further strengthen the link established. In addition, other ministry officials and the secretary of the UNESCO National Commission spoke in the opening. The Vice Chancellor of Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, Prof. Jonas, A. S. Redwood Sawyer, gave the keynote address to the workshop. The workshop was also given media coverage as the national television and many of the newspapers published in Freetown reported on it.

The Dar Es Salaam workshop was opened by Mr. Binde, Assistant Director of the Department of Teacher Education in the Ministry of Education of the United Republic of Tanzania. The UNESCO cluster office was also represented at the opening by Ms. Florence Ssereo, Programme Specialist for Education of the Dar es Salaam Cluster Office.

The major objective of the mission was to pilot test the four training modules for the training of heads and deputy heads of teacher education institutions in sub-Saharan Africa on the management of their institutions, in an actual training situation in order to get feedback on their content, design and relevance for the intended purpose of building the managerial capacity of heads and deputy heads of TEIs in Africa.

Under this major objective, the workshops also had the following specific objectives.

•To enable heads and deputy heads of TEIs share experiences to identify what works where and why;

•To acquaint them with current thinking in the area of educational management;

•To demonstrate the usefulness of open source software and ICT for TEI management staff;

•To encourage networking with their fellow professionals.

IICBA has been engaged in the preparation of training modules for the training of heads and deputy heads of teacher education institutions in sub-Saharan Africa on the management of their institutions. The funds for the training package were secured from the Extra-Budgetary resources allocated by HQ. The project started in mid-2007, with a curriculum design workshop organised in Addis Ababa in August 2007. Following this, a team of two teacher education management experts were contracted to write two modules each with the aim of producing a set of four modules. The modules proposed were:

i) Management of Teacher Education Institutions: General Aspects,

ii) Financial Management of Institutions of Teacher Education,

iii) Academic Staff Management of Institutions of Teacher Education,

iv) Space Management of Institutions of Teacher Education.

Each of these modules has an ICT component that informs trainees on the availability of free and open source software that could be used to facilitate their work as managers of teacher education institutions.

UNESCO-IICBA is interested in conducting an assessment of teacher training policies and programmes in selected West African countries. To accomplish this, it is seeking the services of researchers who will conduct the assessment with the support of staff from the IICBA, head office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This call is, therefore, to request interested researchers to send their CVs and letters of interest to IICBA. The detail plan of the assessment is presented below.

L’Institut International de l’UNESCO pour le Renforcement des Capacités en Afrique (UNESCO-IIRCA) vient d’initier la publication d'une collection de fascicules intitulée: Principes de la formation des enseignants. La collection vise à contribuer à l’enrichissement des connaissances des praticiens, des décideurs, des planificateurs et des gestionnaires de la formation des enseignants évoluant à différents niveaux (national, régional) dans le secteur de l’éducation en Afrique.