AMAN Holds the First Training of Trainer Session on “Teaching Integrity to Youth”

December 29, 2006

As part of the activities planned for the Anti-Corruption Training Program (ACT) which aims at providing Palestinian youth with an understanding of corruption and how to combat it through transparency, accountability, and integrity, the first training session that targeted around 30 high school teachers from Bethlehem area on how to introduce anti-corruption concepts in the learning process took place on December 29, 2006 in Jericho.

Two trainers supervised and implemented the training; Dr. Salah Yassin and Dr. Omar Abu Hommos. The trainers had held senior positions at the Palestinian Curriculum Development Center and co-authored the school curriculum of Civic Education, National Education, and Contemporary Issues.

The training evolved around the following topics:

1- Definition of corruption and its areas.

2- Forms of corruption.

3- Causes of corruption.

4- Effects of corruption and ways for combating it.

5- Analyzing school books; basically, civic education curriculum and other educational material that deal with the issue of corruption.

6- Preparing educational worksheets.

A training manual was distributed to all participants. The training was able to highlight topics pertaining to anti-corruption concepts and values already incorporated within the school textbooks. It also showed the importance of strengthening integrity values and systems of transparency and accountability within the educational process itself.  

AMAN will be working on conducting four other training sessions to target other high school teachers from all over the West Bank.