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National Institute of Teacher Formation and Competence (INAFOCAM) - english information

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Dominican Republic

The National Institute for Teacher Formation and Competence (INAFOCAM) is a decentralized organ subordinate to the ministry of education. Its function is to coordinate the education offer, the competence, the actualization and the perfection of the educational staff on national level. The INAFOCAM is a counselling agency of the ministry of education in relation to the formulation, the application and the evaluation of policies, careers, education programs and projects, of competence, the improvement and the actualization of the teaching staff prescribed by the Dominican education system on different educational levels and modalities. Its task is furthermore to guarantee the formation of the teaching staff needed by the Dominican education system in an adequate quality and quantity through a system which enables the education demanded by the society through an integral development which raises a claim for ethical, democratical, humanist, critical and equal education.

Keywords

teacher education; demand for teachers; teacher training; in-service teacher education; teachers role; educational materials; teaching method; educational policy; ministry of education; counselling; democratic education; humanistic education; institution;