Romanian Educators travel to Washington with the Training of Writers Program on Economics

On February 2nd, 2006 a group of Romanian, Ukrainian and American teachers visited the Embassy of Romania to present the Training of Writers Program of the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE). For five days, U.S. faculty met with the international co-faculty trainers from Ukraine and Romania to review and critique post-workshop lessons, to provide feedback, and to meet with representatives of U.S. government.

Visitors at the Romanian Embassy included:

Alin Cercea (Deva, Romania), School Inspectorate of Hunedoara County in Deva, Romania

Georgeta Georgescu (Bucharest, Romania), Director of the Bucharest Center for Economic Education Director; Teacher at the Ion Creanga High school in Bucharest, Romania

Yulia Lelyuk (Poltava, Ukraine), Director of the Ukrainian Council for Economic Education and the Poltava Center for Economic Education at the Poltava State Agriculture Academy, Poltava, Ukraine.

Elena Reshetnyak (Kharkov, Ukraine) Program Director of the Ukrainian Council for Economic Education at the National Technical University in Kharkov, Ukraine

Co-Faculty Trainers for the Training of Writers Program
Bonnie Meszaros (Newark, DE) Associate Director for the Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship at the University of Delaware.

Mary Suiter (St. Louis, Missouri) Director for the Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Education at the University of Missouri.

NCEE Representatives (Washington, DC)

Patricia K. Elder, Vice President, EconomicsInternational

Laura Oldanie, Associate Director for Outreach, EconomicsInternational

Amee Jankot, Program Administrative Coordinator, EconomicsInternational

NCEE has conducted the economic education component of the Cooperative Education Exchange Program. Legislation for the CEEP grew out of the conviction that economic and civic education are critical to the economic health and political stability of the emerging democracies of the former Soviet Union and eastern and central Europe. The program promotes educational reform through training, materials translation and development, study tours, conferences, and other forms of exchange.

As NCEE's international partners have begun to deliver their own economic education programs, there has been an immediate need for new instructional materials developed in-country. The Training of Writers program meets this need through the implementation of one-week workshops that bring together economic educators from eligible countries and the United States for systematic training on writing economics lessons for K-12 teachers. In September 2005, four exemplary bilingual graduates of the Training of Trainers program joined U.S. faculty as Co-Faculty for a workshop held in Bucharest, Romania. In this way, the Co-Faculty are developing the necessary skills to deliver the Training of Writers program in their own countries in the future.