The USAID funded Pre-Service Teacher Education in Pakistan (Pre-STEP) program works with the Government of Pakistan, Higher Education Commission, provincial government education departments, universities and government elementary colleges to institutionalize specific reforms in pre-service education as desired by the Government of Pakistan through its National Education Policy.

Pre-STEP’s primary objective is to help the Government of Pakistan develop, introduce, and implement effective curricula for a new four-year Bachelors’ degree in education and a two-year associate degree in education. To achieve that goal, Pre-STEP also helps provincial governments create systems, policies and standards that ensure the effective execution of these degree programs.

Pre-STEP’s assistance is tailored to support pre-service education priorities as determined by each province, and to enhance capacity and strengthen systems that will remain once Pre-STEP ends. The result will be teachers graduating from colleges and universities with the knowledge, skills and dispositions required to be effective instructors and to meet Pakistan’s National Standards for Teachers.