In an interview with the Director of School #1 I, she indicated that her school was one of 20 pilot schools selected by the World Bank and that it was slated to be refurbished soon. They have already received new first grade textbooks, and their teachers in grade one took their retraining course last summer. She staled that the course was very effective. She felt that the local control over inservice education in Naxeivan resulted in trainers being well prepared with high standards and that teachers found their courses to be effective and useful. She recommended increased exposure to more progressive educational strategies from western countries.
Apart from the interview with the principal, the investigator was able to interview one teacher from School #11. She staled that her last experience with inservice education was before the reforms began and that it was satisfactory, but redundant. She stated that she and her teacher colleagues found few opportunities to learn new ideas because of their isolation and that the training they received was almost incestuous. She added that the trainers in Naxcivan were 14 only teachers," not the experts they would expect from Baku.
