Pre-Service Teacher Education Program (Pre-STEP)

The Pre-Service Teacher Education (PreSTEP) program has the primary objective of helping the Government of Pakistan develop, introduce, and implement effective curricula for a new four-year bachelor’s degree in education and a two-year associate degree in education. To achieve this goal, PreSTEP helps provincial governments create systems, policies and standards that ensure the effective execution of these degree programs. PreSTEP’s assistance is tailored to support pre-service education priorities as determined by each province, and to enhance capacity and strengthen systems that will remain once PreSTEP ends. The result will be teachers graduating from colleges and universities with the knowledge, skills and dispositions required to be effective instructors and to meet Pakistan’s National Standards for Teachers.

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