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Through the Friendship Through Education iEARN has trained approximately 1,500 teachers on how to use Internet-based technologies to engage in collaboration with peers in countries with significant Muslim populations. This professional development took place in both face-to-face workshops and through online courses. Workshops were held in the following countries, involving a total of 929 teachers, who subsequently engaged more than 37,000 students in online educational projects with peers in the US and elsewhere in the world.

Egypt - 155 teachers - engaging 6,200 students in collaborative project work with US students
Lebanon - 123 teachers - engaging almost 5,000 students. One such workshop focused on "Civics"
Uzbekistan - 75 teachers - engaging 3,000 students
Morocco - 55 teachers - engaging over 2,000 students
Mali - 5 teachers - engaging 200 students
Pakistan - 275 teachers - engaging 11,000 students See, for example: http://www.iearnpk.org/FTE%20workshop%20highlights.htm and http://www.iearnpk.org/professional_development%20Pak.htm
Jordan - 212 teeachers - engaging over 8400 students
Tunisia - 29 teachers - engaging over 1,000 students

Each iEARN online course brings 20-25 teachers together for nine-weeks of interactive professional development on how to integrate interactive technologies in global collaborative "Project-based Learning." Information on these courses is at: http://www.iearn.org/professinal/ Through FTE, it was possible to include 451 teachers from the following FTE countries in courses together. Teachers are 'multipliers" so that each teacher that collaborates, shares that learning and cross-cultural awareness among at least 40 students each year and usually many more. In 2004, iEARN will offer an online course in Uzbek language, made possible partly through FTE resourses.

USA - 246 teachers
Algeria - 2 teachers
Bangladesh - 2 teachers
Egypt - 26 teachers
Indonesia - 4 teachers
Iran - 24 teachers
Jordan - 7 teachers
Kazakhstan - 1 teacher
Lebanon - 6 teachers
Mali - 2 teachers
Morocco - 11 teachers
Nigeria - 1 teacher
Pakistan - 92 teachers
Palestine - 1 teacher
Saudi Arabia - 2 teachers
Syria - 5 teachers
Tunisia - 7 teachers
Uzbekistan - 12 teachers

Teacher Training Workshop in Mali

The main objective of the workshop was to allow a first-time opportunity for practitioners and policymakers to share information, experiences and case studies as Africans. The workshop focused on creating links with schools in the US elsehwere and on finding solutions to the challenges that accompany the introduction of ICTs into education.

The workshop included a presentation by the African Teachers Network. The presentation was delivered by three iEARN online course participants; Salimata Sene (Senegal) , Sounkalo Dembele (Mali) and Donfack Francois (Cameroon) . Presenters shared how the iEARN online teacher training model had improved their ICT and classroom management skills - and opened their classrooms to parts of the world they never thought possible. ATN educators continue to be involved in collaborative projects with educators all around the world. A summary of the workshop is available on the WWW.

FTE Workshops held in Pakistan

A three days iEARN Teachers Training Program from 17th-19th December 2003 in Quetta in collaboration with PITE Baluchistan. The training was attended by 20 educators from public and private schools of different cities of Baluchistan.

Another workshiop March 17-19, 2003 in Pakstan trained 26 educators. A presentation of this workshop is on the www at:
http://www.iearnpk.org/FTE%20workshop%20highlights.htm