ERIC Number: EJ903210
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Dec
Pages: 9
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ISSN: ISSN-1990-3839
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Ensuring Quality during Monitoring of the Learning Environment of Government Primary Schools Achieved through the UEI-PDP for Teachers and Head Teachers
Goderya-Shaikh, Fehmida; Madden, Margaret; Saad, Ismail
Educational Research and Reviews, v1 n9 p328-336 Dec 2006
A positive change in the learning environment in schools is visible through ongoing professional development of teachers and administrators. Monitoring the professional development program and providing support to teachers and administrators to transfer their learnings into the school environment ensures some measures of quality. Quality issues led to the launching of the Professional Development Program (PDP) for Primary School Teachers (PSTs) of Sindh by the United Educational Initiative (UEI), a consortium of five Governmental and Non-Governmental Organizations, working under the supervision of Education Sector Reform Assistance (ESRA). Implementation of the UEI-PDP in four districts of Sindh, is ensured by a team of professionals in each district. Recognising that capacity building of district education employees would improve the educational system in the country, 130 Master Trainers were selected, on merit, from the District Education Office for the training of 17,000 teachers and 3000 Head teachers/administrators over a period of two years. This paper developed the design of a Monitoring Process for a Professional Development Program for Primary School Teachers and Administrators. Data was collected through Pre/Post-observations, Interviews, Questionnaires and Reports. Such tools make it possible for the monitoring teams to observe, to inquire further, and, along with the Managers, Master Trainers and School Support Team, seek to explain the progress of the program and take corrective action where indicated. Both formative evaluations as well as summative evaluation techniques are utilized for evaluating the program. The monitoring process that assisted in formative evaluations is described. In order to assist in summative evaluation, data collected through the monitoring process was further developed to categorize the schools where teachers and head teachers are trained. It is hoped that the categorization of the schools may lead to further improvements in those schools which fall in the group for need improvement. It may also initiate further research as to reasons behind why some schools are in the good category and why others fall in the average category. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Program Design, Program Administration, Educational Quality, Institutional Cooperation, Consortia, Summative Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Data Collection, Classification, School Support, Educational Environment, Inservice Teacher Education, Teachers, Instructional Effectiveness
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Pakistan
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