PAISE-STP
Integrated Support Programme for Sao Tome and Principe’s Education Sector
Sao Tome and Principe
An integrated intervention in 3 components:
- Initial Teachers’ Training;
- Continuous and on-the-job Training of Secondary School Teaching Staff (grade 7 to 12);
- Support the Portuguese and Mathematics teaching in the Autonomous Region of Principe.
OBJECTIVES:
- Improve Sao Tome and Principe’s education system;
- Develop Secondary School Teaching Staff’s skills and qualifications;
- Promote the development of institutional competences of the University of São Tomé e Príncipe (USTP) and the Ministry of Education and Higher-Education (MEES);
- Improve Sao Tome and Principe’s education system, especially regarding the school administration and management.
BENEFICIARIES:
- Directors and Technical Staff from the central and district services of the Ministry of Education and Higher-Education (MEES)
- Pedagogical Supervisors
- Subject Coordinators
- School Managers
- Education Inspectors
- Secondary School teachers
- University of Sao Tome and Principe (USTP)
- USTP teachers involved on the Initial Teachers’ Training
- Continuous and On-The-job Training of teaching staff Office
- Secondary School and Technical-Professional Education Authority (DESTP)
- Educational Innovation and Planning Authority (DPIE) and Internal Education Service (IGE)
- Students from the Initial Teachers’ Training for Secondary School teachers
- Students from Sao Tome and Principe (grade 7 to 12)
ACTIVITIES:
- Reviewing the Initial Teachers’ Training;
- Updating the didactic training component;
- Reviewing and updating the supervised pedagogical practice component;
- Supporting the pedagogical implementation and supervision of teaching internships;
- Promoting USTP’s Teaching Staff professional development;
- Improving labs, library and long-distance learning classrooms’ resources and tools;
- Developing research regarding the project’s activities;
- Supporting USTP, specifically the academic and administrative services and the professional development of its staff;
- Supporting the development and consolidation of the Continuous and On-The-job Training of teaching staff Office;
- Reviewing and/or elaborating guidelines for the Continuous and on-the-job training;
- Supporting technically and logistically the secondary school pedagogical supervision sector;
- Providing continuous training, concerning didactic, pedagogical and scientific aspects on the following subjects: Portuguese, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Biology and English, with close monitoring of subject coordinators and teachers, with the development of pedagogical materials (regarding the training scope);
- Supporting quality, efficacy and efficiency development of school administrative and management processes;
- Supporting the Internal Education Service (IGE) in implementing the school internal and external evaluation;
- Developing an evaluation system proposal for the teacher’s performance;
- Supporting Portuguese and Mathematics teaching in the Autonomous Region of Principe;
- Providing and implementing an innovative program On-the-job training of high-school teachers in the Autonomous Region of Principe, in collaboration with the USTP.
NEWS:
05/02/2020 | New Education Project in São Tomé and Príncipe

Duration
- 35 months: from November 2019 to September 2023
Financing
- Camões, I.P (Portuguese Cooperation)