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USAID Program Improves Education in Morocco

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February 5, 2008
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Washington, D.C.- In support of a three-year, $110 million initiative by the Government of Morocco to equip over 8,600 of its approximately 10,000 schools with multimedia laboratories, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing crucial technical assistance to integrate these Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) fully into classroom instruction.

Through its Advancing Learning and Employability for a Better Future (ALEF) Project, USAID developed and piloted in an initial group of 16 middle schools a comprehensive package of strategies to ensure the effective management and comprehensive use of the labs to derive maximum educational benefit.

In collaboration with the Moroccan Ministry of Education, civil society and international private sector partners, USAID facilitated the training of 110 teachers, school directors and inspectors as ICT Peer Coaches from four of Morocco's 16 regions. These coaches are responsible, in turn, to train, support and supervise other teachers throughout their respective regions to implement effectively the ALEF ICT models of lab management and teaching applications of ICT. At the end of January 2008, 1,500 teachers from 450 schools were trained. The Ministry of Education is presently planning to repeat the experience in three additional regions, before proceeding to a national adoption of the strategy.

The USAID program has also helped the Ministry of Education to create and pilot an Internet-based distance-learning program for teacher training for which the Ministry is also now preparing to employ as a national strategy.

For more information about USAID and its other programs in Morocco and the Middle East, visit www.usaid.gov.

The American people, through the U.S. Agency for International Development, have provided economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide for nearly 50 years.

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