Introduction, Preparation, Operation,Usage, Finalisation. Five words that describe the cycle of a project, an item,or a program. In this instance, that would be the ECo-C Training of its certified,highly qualified, specialized, and properly certified trainers.

In a way, the training of a trainer andteaching of a teacher is one of the deep and abiding problems of our society. Aperson can be taught how to learn, and how to be an expert in a given field.But can they really have a teacher teach them how to teach? With children, itis perhaps possible, because they must be taught how to see the world throughthe eyes of children, but can one be taught to teach adults?

Perhaps the answer is no. But any person aiming to hire andbe represented by good teacher could never accept such an answer; thus teachersare taught, not how they will teach, but what methods of teaching have in thepast shown the most success. This is known as “didactics”, which quiteliterally means “teaching” in ancient Greek; along with those, aspiringteachers learn methodology, which is to say what methods might be used in thepursuit of teaching.

We have, in the past, repeated often enough how muchimportance the IPKeurope attaches to providing a high-quality certificate, andwhy. That is why the organization has set up such a stringent Quality Assurancemechanism, after all.

Altogether, this calls for stringent training of thetrainers, and stringent controlling that they have really learned enough to beable to teach it forward.

With the recent launch of ECo-C Hungary, it is Hungariantrainers who are now participating in IIPKeurope’s certification process.  On the sixth of September, the day whenAustrian schoolchildren first returned to school, six individuals participatedin a training module, the first step to become certified ECo-C trainers andtesters.

We, at eco-c.eu, would like to wish them the best of luck inthis effort, and hope that the presentations they give in the second part ofthis seminar, to be held in October, is a credit to their already extensiveskills and knowledge.