Program:
Clinton Global Initiative
- Budget:
-
$655,000
- Category:
-
Education
- Population Served:
-
Other Named Groups
Program Description:
Teacher
professional development for Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, and
Rwanda. Supported by the Cisco Public Benefit Investment Group,
Teachers Without Borders is providing the TWB Toolset for members and
partners, our Certificate of Teaching Mastery (connected to each of the
national standards), and support for both local non-governmental
organizations and the Ministries of Education.
Program Long-Term Success:
LONG-TERM
SOCIAL BENEFITS OF TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
overall goals:
Correlation between TWB
activities, programs, products, services and the following:
§ Increase in student retention,
particularly of girls (coding of teacher, student, parent surveys, correlation
with demographic data,
§ Increase in teacher retention
(government and NGO sources, limited regression analysis – i.e. connection
between independent and dependent variables, factoring in culture and context)
Program Short-Term Success:
- Teacher professional
development in Kenya and Rwanda for respected and targeted teacher
leaders, education partners and local NGOs. Where appropriate, offer the TWB Toolset to
facilitate collaboration over best practices and practical content. Design
and implement a peer-support structure for local leaders (face-to-face and
online) to supervise the project locally, conduct site visits to determine
degree of classroom implementation, and participate in the formative
evaluation design
- 2.0 metrics and public impacts
beginning with TWB’s own teacher-education activities, followed by those
of partners (listed above). Design ideas for a system of open-source
formative assessment and community evaluation
§ Support for CGI’s leadership team to
enhance effectiveness of all Cisco-CGI partners
Support
Cisco-CGI with applicable research on ICTS in sub-Saharan Africa
Explore
idea of how Cisco can play a leading role with CGI by networking the
commitments
Program Success Monitored by:
FOR
THE CERTIFICATE OF TEACHING MASTERY
(self-reported/mentor
reviewed)
Quantitative and
qualitative measurements of the effect of low-cost online and offline teacher
professional development, on a global scale.
Focus:
§ Ability to model teaching strategies
and teacher expectations of student learning as applied to subject areas. In
this regard, teachers will be able to pose tasks that are based on problem
formulation and problem solving.
§ Tangible evidence (artifacts) of 11
applications in the classroom, plus six additional assessment tasks that
promote higher-order thinking skills.
Develop leadership skills within the school-site
instructional improvement in order to encourage self-reliance and a wider reach
of high-quality teacher training for larger and larger populations
Program Success Examples:
FOR THE EVALUATION OF
ONGOING AND NEW PARTNERSHIPS
overall goals
§ Deep and wide data-base of local
organizations capable of promoting, integrating, and adapting TWB products,
programs, and services
§ Reaching the people who reach the
people in order to enable local development
§ Partnership Packet designed to
facilitate adoption of those TWB products, programs, and services that meet
local needs
§ Capacity for partnership process to be
replicated and scaled
components
§ Inputting into Salesforce of
partnership inquiries, progress
§ Level of commitment to elements of MOU
§ Periodic questionnaires for progress
reports for TWB or partner regional support
§ Site-visits, where possible
Level
of promotion, by partner, of TWB programs, products, and services
Program:
China
- Budget:
-
$800,000
- Category:
-
Education
- Population Served:
-
Other Named Groups
Program Description:
Teachers
Without Borders seeks support to extend, strengthen, and scale our ongoing work
in Dujiangyan, Sichuan – China in order to support online, face-to-face, and
blended professional development and care for three areas that define our
operations:
è Science Inquiry Methods
(Middle/High School) supported by the TWB Toolset and Certificate of Teaching Mastery
è Emergency Education
(Preparedness, Safety)
èPsycho-Social Services (Teacher
wellness/student care)
Program Long-Term Success:
Provide 5 filmed inquiry-science implementations in
American Middle-School and High-School classrooms per topics to be determined by the Dujiangyan Bureau of Education and shown/discussed
using video-conferencing facilities in Dujiangyan
Develop
a white-label version of the TWB Toolset so that
the Dujiangyan Bureau can ensure clarity and scalability.
Coordinate
implementation with the Bureau of Education who
will ensure that the program is implemented with large numbers of teachers in
Dujiangyan
Collaborate
with HR and curriculum teams to
assemble, supervise, and nurture teachers in each of the subject areas
Support
classroom implementation based upon seminars
led by curriculum teams, to be filmed for reuse
Observe
and document competitions of in-classroom examples
that demonstrate teacher professional learning through implementation of
science-inquiry teaching methods into direct experiences with students
Translate
and introduce TWB’s Certificate of Teaching Mastery,
to be made available to trainers and curriculum personnel in Dujiangyan
Offer
additional coursework leading to (1) specialization certificate in
science-inquiry methods for hand-picked curriculum leaders and winners of the
science competition and (2) Certificate of Teaching Mastery
Conduct
ongoing seminars for curriculum leaders/school leaders
Introduce
an ongoing local and virtual mentoring program, involving scheduled video-conferences
with experts in the field, devoted to the particular subjects and capable of
advancing science-inquiry implementation in classrooms
Support
HR/Curriculum teams to extend science training to rural
areas through similar program of example, practice, exchange, competition, and
outreach, as part of the requirement for completion of a science specialist
certificate
Evaluation metrics,
rapid feedback loops
designed to ensure viability, cohesion, purpose, stickiness. Our experience: it must fit real needs and must nurtured
Program Short-Term Success:
Technology
Integration Begun:
1.
Courses: TWB platform is ready; content can be translated by hand through spit
screen
2.
Science-Inquiry
Courses: To be tailored to meet
curriculum/grade-level needs in China
3.
Working Groups:
To be developed to create space for
adaptation/localization/translation
DotSub: integration of software available to TWB for multilingual subtitling
Program Success Monitored by:
Strategy: Provide a
practical, openly accessible, content-rich, culturally-portable, best-practice
driven, step-by-step, rapidly deployable, measurable solution of
emergency-education services.
Assumptions: The success of any such program depends upon
the engagement of school leaders, appropriate levels of access to technology,
and coordination with various governments.
We shall depend upon and solicit local feedback in order to guide the
path process along.
A
Human Network: Various cultures orient
themselves differently, creating a challenge for a consistent path to be tested
effectively in both its preparatory stage and in an actual emergency. At times of emergency, teacher behaviors
reflect the wide range of
unpredictable human responses, so the content and pathway
must reflect a range of human factors.
Program Success Examples:
Metrics, Outcomes and
Impacts: Given that, presently, there are several
emergency education initiatives available, we posit that an open-source,
community-oriented path toward emergency education content, using existing platforms, research and available resources
can provide a huge, measurable impact for communities who have little in the
way of bandwidth, platforms, safety plans, or content
Program:
Participatory Evaluation
- Budget:
-
$99,750
- Category:
-
Community Development
- Population Served:
-
Adults
Program Description:
The Problem:
Program evaluations are often top-down approaches that are disconnected from the individuals, the community and the projects. Evaluations can consist of inconsequential or missing data, produce results that are delayed and expensive, and most significantly, lack accountability, transparency, and connection to real change. Questions around community feedback must not continue to be ignored. The reality is that the evaluation of community programs is often an issue of control, one that tiptoes around the status quo of program developers, funders, and those who indirectly benefit from a positive evaluation report.
Why is this important to TWB?
Honest community-based program evaluation is both a moral obligation and a huge gap in international development work. We have to know that what we do matters. We know that if you can't measure it, it's as if it never happened. With Teacher Pulse and other evaluation tools, we hope to revolutionize the field, demonstrate real impacts, and lower costs. It's no longer enough to simply have good intentions -- we need to raise the bar by stimulating global, yet personal, involvement in program outcomes. Most importantly, we want to show that education is, truly, the key to development.
The Solution:
The community must be involved in the evaluation
. We focus on developing programs and supporting local initiatives and organizations that enable community members to share their own voices, expertise and resources. If people cannot measure and review the impacts of a program, it's absolutely unsustainable.
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Program:
Technological Improvements
- Budget:
-
$155,000
- Category:
-
Science & Technology
- Population Served:
-
Adults
Program Description:
Teachers Without Borders is committed to removing barriers to educational resources available online. In so doing, we are working with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to provide opportunities such as our TWB Toolset, as well as links to the work of our colleagues, worldwide.
Program Long-Term Success:
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