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The Australian Government and USAID announce their new partnership to support the Lao Ministry of Education and Sports through BEQUAL Phase 2
The Vice Minister of Education and Sports, Chargé d’affaires of Australia and Chargé d’affaires from the U.S. Embassy to Lao PDR handed over storybooks for reading corners in all primary schools
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Ministry of Education and Sports and Australia hold the second quarterly meeting on continuing professional development support for teachers in target areas
3 Target Teacher Training Colleges (TTCs) and 7 Provinces share lessons learnt and discuss future activities to strengthen school-based continuing professional development
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Ministry of Education and Sports, with support from Australia and the United States of America establishes a ‘Master Gender Trainers’ team for MoES Departments
The newly created team attended a five-day workshop on gender mainstreaming and School Related Gender-Based Violence that culminated with a celebration of Lao Womens Union Day
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Australia and the United Sates Agency for International Development support the Ministry of Education and Sports with the use of ICT in the teacher professional development system
1,245 data enabled tablets and specific ICT training provided to Internal Pedagogical Support teams in 30 target districts
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Research Institute for Educational Sciences, with support from Australia and the United States Agency for International Development through BEQUAL Program launch training for Master Trainers of the Spoken Lao Program to help teachers build the Lao literacy skills of students who start primary school not yet able to speak Lao
Starting in September 2023, the revised Spoken Lao Program will be piloted in treatment and control schools in 21 selected districts across 10 provinces
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The Ministry of Education and Sport’s E-learning team, with support from Australia, releases a new teacher development video on active learning techniques
In this new training video, teachers learn how to set up and manage pair and group work to engage students in meaningful peer-learning activities
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Ministry of Education and Sports and Australia officially launched the training on the revised Grade 5 National Curriculum with a six-day training of trainers’ workshop for Master Trainers
The Master Trainers Training marks the beginning of the nationwide training cascade to prepare 13,268 Grade 5 teachers, principals and pedagogical support providers ready to implement the new curriculum in September