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Adapting and scaling teacher professional development approaches in Ghana, Honduras, and Uzbekistan

Strengthening systems of teacher professional development (TPD) and delivering them at scale while addressing issues of quality, equity, and efficiency, are fundamental to improving education system performance as a whole. In order to improve teaching quality, this project will address aspects of pedagogical content knowledge, quality of pre- and in-service training, and appropriate support from education leaders. The field work will be executed in diverse contexts within Ghana, Honduras, and Uzbekistan, three countries in the midst of education reforms.

The TPD@Scale project will apply information and communication technologies (ICTs) — blending online, offline, digital, and traditional teacher training modalities — to enable more equitable access to and participation in quality teacher learning experiences not otherwise possible through conventional means. The project’s main objectives are to develop a framework and guidelines for adapting, implementing, evaluating, and continuously improving upon proven TPD@Scale models; to build the capacity of ministries of education and relevant education stakeholders at all levels to design, develop, implement, evaluate, and continuously improve TPD@Scale; and to promote evidence-informed changes in policy and practice towards improved access to quality teacher professional development using the TPD@Scale approach.

The project will apply and adapt two proven TPD@Scale models at a national and subnational level in Honduras, Ghana, and Uzbekistan, where governments recognize the scale and the urgency of the challenges facing their systems and are committed to strengthening TPD as a pillar of their education reform efforts.

This project will be implemented by a consortium including the Foundation for Information Technology Education and Development, Worldreader, and SUMMA, all members of the TPD@Scale Coalition for the Global South, which IDRC is also supporting.

Project ID
109290
Project Status
Active
Duration
30 months
IDRC Officer
Florencio Ceballos
Total Funding
CA$ 2,685,600.00
Location
Ghana
Honduras
Uzbekistan
Programs
Education and Science
Knowledge and Innovation Exchange Program
Institution
Foundation for Information Technology Education and Development
Institution
United Nations Educational
Institution Country
France
Project Leader
Jan Hladik
Institution
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization/Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture/Organización des las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura
Institution Country
Philippines
Project Leader
Victoria Tinio
Institution
Foundation for Information Technology Education and Development, Inc.

Outputs

Adapting and scaling teacher professional development approaches in Ghana, Honduras and Uzbekistan

Adapting and scaling teacher professional development approaches in Ghana, Honduras and Uzbekistan

Report

‘Scaling the TPD@Scale approach in three GPE countries’ was a global 28-month project funded by KIX. The project sought to address the challenge of improving systems of teacher professional development (TPD) to contribute to improved quality classroom teaching in GPE member countries. The overall objective of the project is to identify how ICTs can be utilized at scale to strengthen equity, quality and efficiency in teacher professional development systems. Researchers would achieve this objective through studying how different groups of teachers and other actors within public education systems responded to new and adapted models of ICT-mediated TPD, described here as TPD@Scale.

Author(s): Wolfenden, Freda

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