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Objectives and Justification » Up

The main objective of this program is to ensure an efficient supply of basic cycle and upper secondary school teachers to accommodate system expansion, including training and upgrading of TTC and NIE trainers and education managers. A second objective is to ensure that TTC intake and subsequent trained teacher deployment responds to growing demands in rural/remote and difficult areas through recruitment of new teacher trainees from these areas to address teacher posting difficulties. A third objective is to improve the quality of teaching through expansion of in-service teacher training provision and trainers in NIE.

Scope and Coverage » Up

A flexible and responsive pre-service and in-service teacher development system is critical for assuring equitable access to primary and secondary. Matching the supply and demand for trained and qualified teachers, taking account of agreed 5,000 new TTC recruits per annum, will require close collaboration with the Departments of Personnel and provincial/district authorities. The Teacher Training Department will also review TTC rationalization strategy (e.g. the proposed merging of 6 RTTC/PTTC) and consider level of operational budget for these institutions.

The pre-service program will cover eighteen PTTCs, six RTTCs, one PSTTC and NIE. The continuous teacher development/in-service program will cover targeted groups of the current teaching service, with emphasis on re-training of primary teachers for lower secondary schools. The management training component will continue to focus on school directors, but also extended to education managers at all levels.

Summary of Main Activities » Up

The priority activities will fall into five main areas:

1. TTC and NIE operating budgets aim at improving the quality and efficiency of the pre-service teacher education programs. A new priority for TTC is training of basic cycle grades 1-9 teachers to enable more flexible response to changing enrolment patterns in the coming years

2. TTC, NIE trainer/staff Development Program aims at establishing common levels of competence for all TTC staff and NIE trainers, including training of trainers. The program will provide formal accreditation as a foundation for the rapid development of the national teacher education system. Five training modules will be developed and produced under these activities.

3. Education Management Training Program aims to equip primary and secondary school directors to take up active leadership in their schools and be responsible for implementing quality and efficiency measures and managing resources. The training is delivered through a modular program during school year through a combination of distance learning and residential workshop. This component will be considered to extend to other education personnel.

4. Continuous Teacher Development/INSET Program: First activity: focuses on multi-grade teaching, especially for remote/incomplete schools. The primary target group is teachers currently receiving multi-grade teaching incentives. Second activity: an emerging high priority is to upgrade primary school teachers into lower secondary/basic cycle teachers to meet the projected lower secondary enrolment increases. A third activity is re-training of non-teaching staff as teachers for re-deployment back to the classroom, linking to PAP 1. A fourth activity is textbook and new curriculum orientation, which aims at enhancing student learning through maximizing the effectiveness of teachers in using new teaching materials. Fifth activity: to train teachers in using ICT in teaching and learning, which aims to improve the education service.

5. NIE Capacity Development including: (a) science research and testing, (b) instructional materials program, (c) training module development, (d) capacity building program for trainer, and (e) education managers training program.

6. Monitoring and Evaluation aims to decentralize the role of the TTD from centralized planning and control to monitoring and support of the national teacher education system. Monitoring will identify examples of innovation and good practice which regional monitoring teams from the TTD will collect, share and disseminate. The strategic objective is to enable greater delegated authority and operational autonomy to provincial and regional teacher training colleges.

Program Management and Monitoring » Up

The Committee on Continuous Teacher Development (CCTD), within the TTD will be responsible for overall planning and monitoring, including providing allocations under agreed guidelines. CCTD will be linked to PTTC/RTTC planning committees at provincial levels. Each PTTC/RTTC will be required to prepare an annual development plan and quarterly progress reports each year for review and approval by CCTD.

Funds allocated to PTTCs and RTTCs will be managed by BMCs set up in the Provincial Department of Education. The institutional BMCs will plan allocations and be responsible for accounting for and reporting on the use of funds. Commissions entitled to make use of funds at PTTCs will consist of the Director, Deputy Directors, two staff representatives, two student representatives.

Program monitoring activities will be the responsibility of the TTD, including financial monitoring. The TTD BMC also will be responsible for the design and management of any specialist surveys and audits contracted out to other MoEYS departments or private organizations. PDEs will assist with progress monitoring and financial reporting. The DGE will arrange sample technical audits and IG will arrange sample internal financial audits.

Financing Plan » Up

The financing plan below is only indicative and specific allocation for each activity will be based on an annual needs assessment by TTD, including adjustment on specific target groups.

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