PIIMA and Action Group partner to improve teachers’ skills

    Education 4 January 2021 1019

    The Agency for Development of Presidential, Creative and Specialized Schools (PIIMA) and the NGO Action Group (Edu-Action) signed a memorandum of cooperation.

    Within the framework of cooperation, the parties plan to carry out systematic work and implement promising projects in the field of education, information technologies, as well as to support youth. In particular, the parties intend to cooperate in the field of professional development of teachers and the organization of international exams.

    According to the memorandum, the parties will take measures to organize IELTS and CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH ASSESSMENT exams at the Agency’s schools, as well as to train qualified teachers and specialists in this field.

    In addition, Edu-Action will assist the Agency’s subordinate schools in obtaining educational materials and publications from Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Macmillan and Collins.

    The parties will hold various educational seminars, master classes, conferences, round tables and carry out promising projects for students and teachers of the Agency’s subordinate schools with the participation of international experts and Edu-Action staff.

    Edu-Action will assist in the organization of training courses for teachers of subordinate schools to obtain international Cambridge English Qualifications (CELTA, TKT and TKT CLIL).

    Within the framework of cooperation, it is planned to increase the knowledge and skills in foreign languages of students and teachers of schools of the Agency for the Development of Presidential, Creative and Specialized Schools in Foreign Languages.