Stakeholder Forums: May - June, 2018

Stakeholder Forums: May - June, 2018

by Betty Ogange -
Number of replies: 13

Dear Team,

I will begin by saying that I have just checked and confirmed that the word 'forums' does indeed exist! I can now proceed with a clean conscience :-)

We welcome everyone to the Programme Team Space for the May 2018 forum. We would like to particularly welcome the consultants and other resource persons who will be supporting the upcoming stakeholder forums for project design in The Gambia,  Sri Lanka, Kenya and South Africa in the coming weeks.

The intention of the stakeholder forums is to support participatory project design with partner institutions, to realise a consensus project strategy for COL's support towards technology-enabled school-based teacher development in respective countries for the  3-year period beginning July 2018.

I request those who will be joining for the first time to begin by introducing themselves in the Who's Who Forum.

My colleague, May Li and I will shortly be sharing resources in this forum for reference and engagement ahead of the stakeholder forums.

We hope that the in-coming consultants will use this opportunity to exchange ideas with other consultants who have conducted similar (or near-similar) forums in other countries.

Feel free to ask questions, engage with us and above all, engage with one another!

Kind regards,

Betty

 

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Re: Stakeholder Forums: May - June, 2018

by Prince Brainard -

Dear Dr. Betty

Thanks for your email and invitation to participate in the Forum.  Surely I will engage our consultant Prof. Junaid.

Waiting for sharing collaboratively new experiences from sister countries.

Have a blessed Weekend.

Best Regards

Brainard

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Re: Stakeholder Forums: May - June, 2018

by Betty Ogange -

Dear Brainard,

The work you have done so far in Sierra Leone is impressive. You are a great team leader and we hope you can share your experience with the other resource persons and project contact persons as they come on board.

 

Kind regards,

Betty

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Re: Stakeholder Forums: May - June, 2018

by Betty Ogange -

Hi Team,

Here are some resources for your reference as preferred during the Stakeholder Forums. Included here is a presentation titled: Teacher Futures: The Concept, which you can use as-is or amend as desired.

I will attach more resources to the next post.

 

Best regards,

Betty

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by Dr. Abdurrahman Umar -

Hi Betty,

These are very useful resources. We will review them and see how they can be used by our GT team members.

Many thanks for Sharing.

Abdurrahman

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by Betty Ogange -

Hi Team,

Here are additional resources.

Best regards,

Betty

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Re: Stakeholder Forums: May - June, 2018

by Dr. Abdurrahman Umar -

Rich and useful stuff that admirably suit our purpose at GT.

We will review and share with colleagues. Will get back to you soon.

Many thanks,

Abdurrahman

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by Elizabeth Mbasu -

Hi Betty,

Thank you for sharing these resources.

I find some handy for Kenya and the Gambia e-workshop starting tomorrow the 13th June.

Best regards,

Elizabeth

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by Donna Rodney -

Hello,

I successfully facilitated a 4-day Stakeholder Forum in the Gambia, resulting in a Results Based Management proposal presented to COL.  30 delegates were invited to participate, representing the Ministry, Gambia College, head teachers, lecturers from University of the Gambia and Gambia College, INSET and the Curriculum team.  The group worked tirelessly to identify current good practice and a strategic way forward for introducing Teacher Future's Program.  

All delegates are in support of this teaching and learning intervention and look forward to supporting the program (led by Gambia College - as the lead TEI).  We are in the first week of Ramadan.  Refreshments were available in the morning to those participants who did not fast.  

Overall - a renowned success, resulting in a comprehensive, realistic and timely RBM that will guide and influence our project strategy.

Donna

 

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Re: Stakeholder Forums: May - June, 2018

by Betty Ogange -

Hi Donna,

Congratulations on successfully facilitating the Stakeholder Forum in The Gambia. We are currently looking at your reports.

Are there some lessons that other consultants could learn from your experience as they prepare for a similar activity in Sri Lanka, South Africa and Kenya?

Anything that turned out differently from what you had planned?

Betty

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by Janet Thomson -

Hi Donna and Betty 

Well done on facilitating a successful forum Donna.  I am interested in Betty's question about things that might have turned out differently - and whether you have any advice for us in South Africa who are still to hold our forum in 2 weeks time.

kind regards

Janet 

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by Bimali Indrarathne -

Dear all

I finished the 4-day stakeholder forum in Sri Lanka last evening which was very successful. There were participants from the Ministry of Education, National Institute of Education, Teacher training colleges, provincial education ministries, and school principals etc. 

What we realised is that Sri Lanka already has a well-established SBTD programme implemented in all schools. All of them have SBTD committees in schools who also receive a grant every year for SBTD activities within the school. However, currently they do not have streamlined, well-defined guidelines on what aspects to focus on. There's also no online platform. 

The two main points that we are going to focus on in the new project are:

1. How to make the current programme more systematic, so all schools will have proper guidelines on what Teacher Professional Development is - we are moving from SBTD to SBPTD (professional added)

2. How to make professional development programmes online - both a central platform and school-based platforms

I will be writing the report soon and will discuss both the existing programme and new proposals in detail. 

Best wishes

Bimali

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Re: Stakeholder Forums: May - June, 2018

by Janet Thomson -

Dear Bimali 

Congratulations on your successful forum  - it sounds as if you were not expecting to learn that Sri Lanka already had a successful SBTD programme in all schools.  Our forum in South Africa is due to happen as from June 18th so I am very interested in whether you might have further advice for us.

kind regards

Janet 

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Re: Stakeholder Forums: May - June, 2018

by Bimali Indrarathne -

Hi Janet

Sorry for the late reply, I hope it's not too late. I've almost finished writing the current situation analysis and the proposal, so have a better idea of what to focus on. 

What we have learned from the Sri Lankan experience of current SBTD is that there is a properly designed administrative system of SBTD in place: SBTD committees in schools and a system to offer financial assistance to schools for SBTD tasks. However, lack of information flow from top-level to bottom-level has made different stakeholders implementing the programme according to individual understanding (this is due to lack of systematically designed guidelines). Lack of systematic monitoring/evaluation makes it extremely difficult to measure the outcomes. What we understood is that it has become an administrative procedure and teachers seem not to receive the expected benefits. So, things to consider if you are designing a new programme is: how to spread information to all stakeholders, how to give emphasis to teacher learning and how to monitor the activities. These are the things we are focusing on in the new SBPTD proposal, e.g., we are proposing a teacher awareness raising module, online platform, outcome measures, micro-learning modules etc. 

Hope this helps a bit. 

Best wishes

Bimali