Educational Change Unit
In addition to in-service teachers’ education, through the long term educational innovation projects, Almawrid offers short term training courses (30 hours meeting/each) in order to meet specific needs for teachers, principals, and school counselors.

The structure of Almawrid is based on the working units, which works separately and as a team in order to achieve the ultimate goals headed by Almawrid. The units are educational bodies able to accomplish change, these are:

• Environmental Educational & Awareness
• Civic Education (Democracy and Human Right)
• Cultural Heritage
• Research Unit.
• School Culture’s Change Unit
• General Trainings (School Subject Matters)

• Environmental educational and awareness
  • Local environment as teaching resource
  • Field trips as educational tools

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• Civic Education (Democracy and Human Right)
  • Integrating Human Rights in daily teaching
  • Democracy for its use at schools
  • Youth leadership

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• Cultural Heritage
  • Story Telling

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• Research Unit

  This unit aims at conducting specific studies, mainly for improving the quality of Almawrid’s activities. Therefore, this research unit focuses on:

  • Evaluation Reports.
    “Education for Sustainable Development” A paper presented by Almawrid at the First Palestinian Word Youth Forum Conference for Sustainable Development held in Ramalleh, July – 2005.

  • Impact Assessment:
    • “Doing Democracy and Human Rights Education in Palestine”, March – April 2005
    • “Education for Citizenship”, October 2005

  • Case Studies

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• School Culture’s Change Unit
  
  • Effective Educational Leadership
  • Managing Change
  • Democratizing Your School
  • School Cultures’ Change

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• General Trainings (School Subject Matters)
  • Learning Concepts and Theories
  • Creative Teaching Methods:
  • Active Learning
  • Cooperative Learning
  • Problem Solving
  • Case Studies
  • Effective Teaching Methods for different school subjects:
    • Math
    • Science
    • English

  • Civic Education
  • Managing the Classroom
  • Teaching Thinking
  • Managing Students’ Behaviors
  • Counselors for Improving the Quality of Education
  • Teaching in Crises