“Pre-service Curriculum Development workshop – Assessment” from 9 to 13 December 2019
“If you don’t have a good teacher with a deep knowledge of the topic, strong pedagogy skills and efficient teaching techniques, you will not achieve successful learning outcomes for the primary students” said Ajan Keth Phanhlack, Director General of Department of Teacher Education (DTE). Indeed, research from around the world confirms that the quality of a teacher has a direct impact on student learning outcomes.
BEQUAL Education Innovation Fund (BEIF) Learning Workshop
How can we encourage and pilot new and innovative activities to improve participation and access to primary education? How can we strengthen provincial, district, school and community capacity to manage, coordinate and implement those new education activities?
A new Spoken Lao Program for non-Lao speaking Grade 1 students being piloted in 4 provinces
In September 2019, the Ministry of Education and Sports in Lao PDR, with the support of the Australian Government and the European Union through BEQUAL, started to pilot a Spoken Lao program for Grade 1 students who start school with no or very little understanding of Lao language.
Pre-service Curriculum Revision and Development Workshop, Diploma degree from 11th to 15th November 2019 at ICT Building, MOES
Since 2015, the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES), with the support of the Australian Government and the European Union through the BEQUAL program, has been revising the primary curriculum and the primary teacher training curriculum.
New Grade 2 textbooks and teacher guides to be approved for school year 2020-21
Since 2015, the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) has been developing a new primary curriculum along with new teaching and learning materials for students and teachers. The implementation of the new curriculum started this September with Grade 1 and implementation will be progressive with one new grade per year
Preparing the training teams for the new Grade 2 curriculum
On 15-16 October 2019 the Department of Teacher Education (DTE) led a review and refresh of the Master Trainer and Provincial Trainer teams that recently provided training on Grade 1 materials of the new primary curriculum across the country