Democracy Education Exchange Program
DEEP Uzbek Delegation
In addition to workshops and planning sessions, the teachers spent a day at
Chicago area schools partnered with
local teachers
.
The first scheduled event is a roundtable for stakeholders of the four target
schools and key governmental policymakers to inform and "consolidate efforts of
the community towards the development of democratic reform in the schools." The
next event is a training workshop for school administrators and a few
government representatives with the goal of developing a plan to support
democratization of the schools. Two five-day teacher training workshops (one
for Russian-speaking schools, one for Uzbek-speaking schools) on interactive
teaching methods and civic content will be held prior to the start of schools
with a one-day follow-up workshop scheduled during the fall break in early
November. The team plans to provide resource materials and consulting services
to support the teachers and administrators throughout the fall term. The fourth
component of the plan is the development of student self-government in the
pilot schools which will be initiated by five-day training workshops for
students, parents, and teachers of the pilot schools also held during the fall
break. A central component of the student government project is initiation of
service learning projects connecting the schools and the community. The team's
long-range plan calls for this Tashkent-based initiative to be adapted in other
regions of the country where team members are based. To facilitate this, all
team members will participate in development of the Tashkent model.
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