They congratulated the Department of Teacher Education and the Provincial Education and Sports Services for selecting diverse and more gender balanced teacher training teams

Ministry of Education and Sports national and provincial stakeholders and Australia discuss the recent progress and plan for the development and implementation of the new primary curriculum

For Grade 4, Australia supports the development, production, distribution, and training of teachers for Lao Language, Science and Environment and English subjects

Those modules are addressing most common challenges faced by primary teachers

This year a gender equality target was identified for each province with the aim of increasing the number of female team members to 50% or as close as possible

Despite the on-going COVID-19 challenges, Grade 3 teachers are trained, and new textbooks and teacher guides are delivered nationwide

In celebration of International Day of people with disabilities, the Australian-funded BEQUAL program organized a fun and interactive session to learn basic Lao Sign Language

The curriculum writers successfully adapted the way they were developing lessons to continue working online in an even more collaborative process

New grade 3 materials are in schools, teachers are trained, grade 4 curriculum is in development. However, concerns were raised about schools still being closed