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The International Institute for Education for Development
Education contributes to Development
Innovative and quality education contributes to growth
The International Institute for Education for Development (The Institute) has as its mission to
promote inclusive, quality education for development at all levels from a global perspective.
Through our programs, we contribute to individual and institutional capacity strengthening with an
end to defining or redefining education policies at all levels. We do this by bringing international
experts with many years of knowledge and experience in the US, Europe and Latin America to work
on inclusive, sustainable programs in partnership with governments and institutions throughout the
region.
Our programs promote the use of technology in education, research and inquiry-based education
and science and technology in education to strengthen critical thinking and collaborative problem-
solving skills.
Professional Development That Makes a Difference
A disturbingly high percentage of students drop out of school or repeat grades. Too many students
lack basic literacy and numeracy skills and are ill prepared to meet basic job requirements. While
there are a number of economic and social factors that have an impact on these issues, teachers’
ability to engage a diverse body of students and provide them with the skills they will need tosucceed in the 21
st century is key.
Not only in Suriname, but worldwide, students need teachers who can guide meaningful learning.
To do this, teachers deserve and must receive quality initial preparation and engage in ongoing
professional development.
We, in the International Institute for Education for Development (The Institute), recognize that high-
performing teachers and high-achieving students share one fundamental characteristic: an
openness to change.
To nurture that sense of curiosity,the Institute’s newcourses and degree programs assist teachers,those who want to become teachers, and those who want to work in technology for education to
update their skills and acquire specializations using innovative pedagogy and technology
appropriate to the country and its culture.
Research-driven models of teacher preparation and development share much in common. The
best amongst them:
• Enable educators to use their classrooms as laboratories from which they can collect and
analyze research evidence and create adaptive measures to differentiate their instruction.
• Provide credit for intensive, blended learning experiences rather than isolated courses so
that students can benefit from face-to-face interaction, accessibility to global experts,
consistent interaction with local mentors, and the ability work on their classroom projects.
• Encourage collaboration and risk taking. Allow teachers to build communities of practice thatoperate along the lines of a café, a free library, and marketplace of ideas. The café elicits the
power of transformational conversations between teachers in a safe atmosphere conducive
to problem solving, innovation, and subject-matter mastery. The free library leverages the
social network of the café by offering an interactive repository of shared content and lessons,
rapid feedback loops, and a cycle of ongoing improvement. The marketplace stimulates
breakthrough thinking and the development of educational applications that meet local
needs.
• Encourage participatory teacher research based in research evidence gathered from their
primary and secondary classrooms. Professional development for teachers in researchmethods can be integrated into the national curriculum in order to foster a spirit of curiosity
and guide innovative and collaborative projects such as science fairs and service learning.
• Provide release time for teachers to participate in new professional development training
programs and to observe each other’s classrooms.
• Support mentorship programs that ensure new teachers experience those with demonstrated
excellence in three areas: (a) content-level mastery, (b) results-driven and creative teaching
practices, and (c) their effectiveness in adult learning.
• Reduce the dependence upon textbooks to transmit the national curriculum. Immune fromimprovement and outdated the moment they are published, textbooks can be supplemented
by open educational resources, curated locally in a continuous improvement cycle, and
shared broadly.
• Examine policies regarding teachers and ensure to include all stakeholders. Pre- and in-
service teacher training and other interlinked aspects should examine mechanisms for
selection, hiring, promotion and the evaluation of teachers. At the same time, these
mechanisms cannot succeed unless there is an equal commitment to a stakeholder
agreement about salaries, a classroom-based professional development structure,
mentorships, and rapid feedback loops so that the effort is a truly common enterprise.1
• Allow directors to adjust schedules and create homegrown, flexible solutions that allow them
to accommodate student work schedules and family obligations; provide multiple
opportunities for curriculum designers and pedagogy experts to collaborate directly with
classroom teachers; and connect after-school teachers to classroom teachers in order to
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Enrollment, withdrawal policies follow those of IOL.
Grounds for Dismissal from Program
As mentioned above, all students are expected to abide by the policies and expectations of the IOL.
We keep this section very clear. You are a professional in your classroom and within your local
community. You represent the very best of what it means to be a teacher and so your behavior in
speech and action honors yourself, others, and the teaching profession.
We have only THREE distinct policies, but we reserve the right to take action to ensure that this
program maintains the highest standards if there is :
1.Consistent evidence of academic dishonesty. Plagiarism, manipulation of data,
misrepresentation of classroom applications are examples. We reserve the right to
recommend dismissal based upon our assessment that a student is not working in good faith
or actively harming our collective motivation to build a robust community of practice.
2.Anyone who strikes a child (inside or outside of class) will be immediately removed from
this program. The IOL will make its own determination of disciplinary action. We promise a
fair and impartial hearing, but reserve the right to make the final decision.
3.Anyone who engages in any type of harassment or inappropriate behavior towards
students or colleagues (online or offline) will be considered a likely candidate for removalfrom this program. Here, too, we promise a fair and impartial hearing, but reserve the right
to make the final decision. The IOL will make its own determination of disciplinary action.
Our Approach
“ICT4E is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
(Adapted from Edsger Dijkstra)
The International Institute for Education for Development’s (The Institute) programs promote the use
of ICTs in education, strengthen critical thinking, collaborative problem-solving skills,and inclusion.It is our aim to reach all teachers regardless of where they are professionally in their careers or
whether they teach in the city or in a rural area.
The Institute’s methodology takes into account the teachers’ considerable knowledge, particularly
about the local environment, and gives them some new tools to make the teaching experience even
better and to assist them in managing innovation. The curriculum is relevant to the needs of the
teachers and respects and celebrates their culture. We work with teachers to develop and manage