Project News

2013-05-27~05-31

Sharing of the project future plan by Mr. Chandy, DTE Director

The third workshop was held at IT center in Kammouane Province from 27 to 31 May. In this workshop, report on the results of Endline Survey was presented at first; followed by the project future plan, making ITSME materials and the preparation for TOT. Especially, chief lecturers in mathematics and science from 6 TTCs, which are not covered by the project, were invited to this workshop in order to make them understand ITSME idea and make them introduce ITSME lesson preparation in their colleges.

1. Report on the results of Endline Survey

Japanese expert reported the results of Endline Survey. This report shows that the project contributed the improvements of teachers' attitude towards lesson preparation and mathematics teaching, and students' attitude towards mathematics. These outcomes of the project encourage the trainers to have confidence on their works. However, it cannot be seen the effect on teacher's subject knowledge yet. Some comments request the improvement of ITSME materials as well. All those comments indicate a direction of the project future activity.

After the reporting, Mr. Chandy PHOMMABOUTH, Director of Department of Teacher Education (DTE) expressed his appreciation on the project contributions, especially trainers' efforts. In terms of the points which are not improved through the project, he mentioned that this is natural consequences because the project did not train the teachers intentionally on that aspect. However, he encouraged the trainers to continue studying to teach and advise school teachers in the future.

2. Project future plan

Mr. Chandy reconfirmed the project future plan. In his explanation, it was mentioned that ITSME trainer team is maintained as the main resource personnel in order to secure the outcome of the project. In addition, he explained the enhancement of monitoring to grasp school situation and provide advice to the school teachers. Furthermore, he instructed all TTCs to introduce ITSME idea of lesson preparation in pre-service stage.

3. Making ITSME materials and selecting TOT materials

All lesson plans assigned to each trainer were presented to the others to show their actual status and improve by the comments of other trainers and experts. After all presentations, two lesson plans were selected for TOT. When trainers selected the lesson plans, they considered that those lesson plans promote teacher's understanding on the topic which teachers feel difficult. As a result, fraction in mathematics and electric circuit in science were selected.

4. Confirmation of the TOT schedule

TOT will be conducted at the end of June. Therefore, the workshop to prepare the materials for TOT will be held. All trainers are assigned to study two selected lesson plans and think about how to introduce them to the school teachers at TOT.