Avelino Meneses says teachers should be involved in "constant" updating of knowledge
The Regional Secretary for Education and Culture stated in Ponta Delgada that teachers have to keep up with the "changes" in knowledge, defending the importance of continuous training.
Avelino Meneses spoke at the end of the opening session of the training course on "School monitoring and (self)regulation: analysis and projection of results in classes with analogous context. On the occasion, the government official stressed that the commitment to continuous training is nowadays extremely important as a complement to initial training."
According to Avelino Meneses, this importance is due to the fact that "we are living in an era when knowledge changes at a dizzying speed."
Nevertheless, the Regional Secretary considered that it is not possible to provide training to all teachers of the regional education system through face-to-face actions "at once and at the speed we want."
For this reason, he mentioned the existence of two alternatives; both of which are valid. One of them concerns online training insofar as the experiences carried out nationally have achieved "some success" and, in this context, teachers themselves should "take charge of their own training."
"The most experienced ones [teachers] should provide training to the less experienced and, thus, contribute to an everyday debate on issues concerning education, both from a pedagogical and scientific standpoint," stressed Avelino Meneses.
For the Secretary for Education, this is an approach to involve all teachers of the regional education system "in this constant need to update" knowledge.