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Textbook Publishing Program
Program Coordinator: Turgut Mustafayev
Mission statement
Textbook Publishing Program promotes the use of democratic procedures in the publishing of textbooks through open competition and involvement of teachers in the development and testing of new textbooks.
Program directions/components
- OSI will promote team-based approach to textbook publishing by creating teams that consist of publisher, teacher and designer.
- The Assistance Foundation will also provide simultaneous support and training to publishers and authors.
Achievements
1999 saw many milestones accomplished:
- The program created and trained a team of teachers and authors, including workshops held by external experts, and a study tour at the International Textbook Research Center.
- The History Teachers Association was created and submitted to the Ministry of Justice for registration.
- Teachers started testing chapters of two textbooks linked to Associations of History teachers in Europe and countries of CIS.
Activities
- An autonomous Textbook Approval Board (TAB) has been established to organize an open competition, to provide for evaluation of competition entries, to announce the results and to provide for high quality both in development and printing.
- Subject Panelists have been selected for the following subjects: ABC, Math, English, French and Biology; they will be responsible for objective evaluation of samples.
- Competition has been launched for the above-mentioned subjects and results have been announced.
Future Plans
- To run a series of training courses for subject panelists and potential authors in order to provide them with innovative methods;
- To run workshops for designers and publishers in textbook design and evaluation;
- To make arrangements for other competitions.
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