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.
