how policy makers perceive outcomes

how policy makers perceive outcomes

by Prof. Bob Moon -
Number of replies: 2

Everyone might be interested in this article

 

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2018/02/20/6-key-insights-into-the-data-and-information-education-leaders-want-most/

 There are some interesting ideas. But one of the things that occurred to me is how we establish common ground between different 'actors' in the systems. This paper is quite complex. Could we envisage a narrative where teachers, senior teachers, local education officials, regional and national policy makers AND Ministers unite around the same terms and analyses? If you take one of the major global challenges, improving the learning outcomes in primary schools , in Sub-Saharan Africa,parts of Asia and elsewhere, do teachers have a professional language around which the problem can be discussed. Having worked on development programmes in all parts of the world I've become a great believer in the less means more' concept. If we could give teachers just a few well focussed targets in literacy and numeracy we could organise school=based teacher development around these. For the present teacher education is too vague and general. But who would lead on reform?

In reply to Prof. Bob Moon

Re: how policy makers perceive outcomes

by Prof. Muhammad Junaid -

The "less means more" concept is key to  successful e-Learning course design. It brings to mind Christopher Pappas' piece on content chunking for e-Learning herewith attached as a resource for the various groups.

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Re: Chunking

by Tekaribwa Boota -

Thank you Prof. Muhammad Junaid for sharing this resource.

At the Kiribati Teachers College,  we are currently developing new diploma courses for our pre-service as well as in-service teachers.

With in-service teachers, the idea of chunking as explained in the article that you shared and micro-learning stated in the guidelines and standards for the design and integration of micro content that was shared by Melisa, are very appropriate in planning for the upgrading courses for our in-service teachers given that they have already got full teaching load plus other commitments.