Capacity building of MoA in delivering the new BT program specifically at a hybrid learning approach

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Date: 3/2021 – 8/2021

Educational Services and Planning:

  • 50% curriculum development
  • 40% professional development
  • 10% strategic planning

Partner: FAO

Description:

With emerging COVID-19 impact MoA capacity needed to be built in digital skills and offering of the new BT curricula at hybrid learning approach (combinig on-line and face to face learning and training

The value of this support activity was to integrate a new landscape in educational technology where physical and virtual environments are improved and blended to support learning in the new BT program.

School teacher’s and Education and Extension Services (EES) staff digital capacities are enhanced for implementation of the new BT curricula and program for blended hybrid learning (face to face learning in school using digital materials in class or virtually by remote learning).

  1. Conduct training sessions to support 50 EES staff and school teachers to plan and deliver blended learning program for plant and animal major for 120 days of teaching at “Hybrid learning” in the scholastic year 2020-2021.
  2. Creation of “Digital Teacher Corps,” a prepared team of at least two master technology teachers in every school (for a total of 15 teachers). This group of teachers will be trained as curriculum designers who teach teachers how to integrate technology tools into lessons to gain leverage on topics that are traditionally difficult to teach and learn.
  3. Conduct refresher courses on Microsoft Teams for teachers for use a platform for online learning.
  4. Train 65 teachers on class management subjects, lessons plan and practical assignments for new BT curricula, using Microsoft Teams.
  5. Train 50 educators to improve their digital skills for production and use of Open Education Resources (including Digital Learning Object DLO). 
  6. Train 20 teachers to deploy technology to increase rigor and strengthen outcomes by: redesigning existing lessons of the new curricula that are grounded in text and practiced on worksheets and digital presentations for the production of at least 33 DLOs.
  7. Train 25 EES staff, school directors and teachers on the implementation and management of the new system; namely the application of the new school constitution.
  8. Train 25 EES staff, school directors and teachers on the evaluation reference of the new school constitution for assessing students based on CBA (competency-based approach) using the “Problem situation” methodology.
  9. Train 15 teachers and EES staff in order to elaborate at least 120 “problem situation” related to the competencies of the first- and second-year theoretical courses.
  10. Support to AVSI and MoA on the development of the Landscape program, elaboration of competency and job referential and 5 courses curricula (garden history, green and garden design, plant’s identification, special entomology, special phytopathology) to be in conformity with the new BT curricula elements.