The PAT, financed with resources from the WB (75 million dollars) and the Angolan Government (5 million dollars) began to be implemented in Angola on June 16, 2014 with the aim of improving the skills of Angolan teachers.
According to the project manager, Irene de Figueiredo, initially the PAT, implemented by the Ministry of Education of Angola, trained 15,000 primary school teachers and managers of 942 schools across Angola.
"Over the seven years of effective implementation, 20,929 teachers were trained in the 164 municipalities of Angola where 38 percent demonstrated effective improvement in their skills," said the official this Wednesday.
Irene de Figueiredo, who spoke this Wednesday, in Luanda, at the opening of a training cycle for trainers, which plans to train more than 40,000 primary and secondary school teachers by December 10, said that this will be the last action of the first phase of the PAT.
This training cycle "will be the last to take place at PAT 1, considering the project ends on February 28, 2022. For which we expect commitment, dedication from everyone, trainers and trainees, so that we have positive results", she stressed.
The training cycle that started this Wednesday in the Angolan capital, with a training of trainers, is aimed at school directors, primary and secondary education teachers, class, discipline, course coordinators and members of the educational community.
Strengthening the skills of trainees in relation to the pedagogical practice of Portuguese Language and Mathematics, the skills of teachers and managers for the functioning of schools in accordance with the safety guidelines in the context of covid-19 are some of the objectives of this training.
Angola's Secretary of State for Secondary Education, Gildo Matias José, said, at the opening of the meeting, that the ministerial body he represents considers training as a "central axis for improving the teaching performance of all teachers".
"We are also aware that improving the quality of education involves, consequently, an improvement not only in initial training, but also in the creation of opportunities for improvement during the exercise of the teacher in his competent teaching mission", underlined the government official.
