Armenian Human Rights School hosts summer session of course for 2010-2011 school year

PanARMENIAN.Net - On July 26-August 15, the Armenian Human Rights School (AHRS) hosted a summer session of the 15th course for 2010-2011 school year. The event brought together 29 teachers from 10 regions of Armenia, the press service of the Armenian Constitutional Right-Protective Center (ACRPC) reported.

The aim of the AHRS course is to raise the level of teachers’ theoretical knowledge who teach Human Rights, Civic Education, State and Law and Ethics in Armenian schools, as they are components of Social Sciences, and also to improve the methodological teaching skills in these subjects.

Teachers studied 12 topics: Human Rights Notion, Classification of Human Rights, International Legal Documentation, Community and Society, Democracy, The United Nations system, Electoral Law, Collaborative Teaching Methods, basic provisions of Moral Philosophy, the Role of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Protecting Human Rights, Children’s Rights and International Humanitarian Law. These topics were studied using the Collaborative Teaching Methodology, which is based on mutual learning, teaching, participation and cooperation among course participants.

The course was run by the AHRS training team (AHRS top graduates of different years were also invited as trainers) and involved special guest speakers, methodologists and specialists from the Evaluation and Testing Center of the Armenian Government, the National Institute of Education of the Armenian Ministry of Education and Science, the OSCE, UNICEF and the ICRC Delegation to Armenia.

The one-year training program will include two supplementary 5-day meetings and 11-months of distance learning.

The program was supported by the Interchurch Organization for Development Cooperation (ICCO).