With the help of our donors, we have been able to make the further training to become a state-certified teacher at the Institute for Open Learning possible. In other projects of steps for children and in our partner projects, we also support teacher training and further education so that our steps children are cared for in the best possible way. In 2021, we can look back on a total of 12 training courses financed by us<\/strong>, some teachers are currently active and are still completing their modules.<\/p>\n Even during the pandemic, the training courses, which last up to four years and consist of a combination of in-person, online and self-study phases, were able to continue.<\/p>\n Through training and further education in the areas of early childhood education and development, we want to strengthen our carers<\/strong> and thus sustainably improve the education of the steps children. The training courses provide sound knowledge of caring for children in their various stages of development, safety, health, hygiene and nutrition, as well as specialist didactic knowledge for the school subjects English and Mathematics.<\/p>\n Already now, all teachers bring aspects from their further training into their daily lessons and into their work with children in the projects.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Now Santiago is a teacher at the state primary school in Gobabis in the mornings, which has rented a few classrooms in the steps buildings, and in the afternoons he continues to look after the Schutzengel and steps homes children together with his steps colleagues.<\/p>\n In some cases, it is difficult to retain the teachers - because as soon as they have completed the additional training, they are sometimes poached by the state. We see this with both joy and sorrow: on the one hand, it is a great loss for the children in our nurseries and preschools, on the other hand, we can be proud that we are enabling such a good education and that the state also employs our teachers without a university degree. We are delighted for the staff, who then receive a higher salary. Nevertheless, of course, we try to counteract the departure of our teachers: by handing over more responsibility, higher salaries and further incentives after the training. In any case, we would like to continue making a major contribution to training and further education in this area<\/strong> \u2013 education as the key to change.<\/p>\n The cost of further training can vary \u2013 tuition and course fees differ depending on the training and travel costs to the course locations. <\/strong><\/p>\n For 1 year per teacher at Headstart Montessori<\/a> Training College, at <\/strong>NamCOL<\/a> Namibian College of Open Learning or at<\/strong> IOL<\/a> \u2013 Institute for Open Learning the fee is between \u20ac500 and \u20ac2,100.<\/strong><\/p>\nTraining continued even during the pandemic<\/h3>\n
Santiago is staying with us<\/h3>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\nA big compliment to steps<\/h3>\n
CONTINUING EDUCATION<\/h2>\n