Report Card
Professional Development in Africa
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A text-book for sharing Evidence Based Methods of
Instruction (EBMI) is being prepared by
World Literacy
Initiative.
It is ~80% complete and it is anticipated
that it will be ready for
publication
and distribution to Africa by the end of September .
*** 392 Deans, Teacher Educators, Ministry Staff, and
Regional Education Bureau
Directors introduced
to
Evidence Based Methods of
Instruction
(EBMI)
in Ethiopia.
*** 395 Teachers now fully skilled in Evidence Based
Methods of Instruction
(EBMI), including 3 Lead
EBMI teachers and 2
teacher-trainers (Malawi and
Namibia).
*** Paper on how
EBMI can help improve academic
achievement in Africa
presented at the Kenton at
Mpekweni Conference sponsored by Kenton and Rhodes Universities
(RSA) held in
Mpekweni, South Africa,
October 2005.
*** Professional development workshops
held at Caprivi College of
Education and Montfort
Teacher
Training College & all-indigenously produced ones in Malawi.
Awards, Achievements, & Acknowledgements
» Outstanding Teacher Awards from the
International Foundation for
Education and Self-Help
(Malawi [2002-3] and in Namibia [2005-6]).
» Support from a variety of
professionals working in education in Africa
- for instance the Ministries of Education
in Malawi, Namibia and Ethiopia, primary & secondary school
principles & headmasters, two
college presidents (Malawi and Namibia), support from Namibia’s National
Institute for
Educational Development: Office of Professional Development (NIED),
and the International Foundation for Education and Self-Help.
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Student teachers trained and coached by World Literacy Initiative swept 1st and 2nd place prizes in Namibia’s National Lesson Plan Writing Competition 2005 |
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| Happy Winners Andrew Inambao (1st Place) & Justina Angula (2nd Place) |
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» World Literacy Initiative successfully participated as a lead member of a small group of professionals responsible for planning the Teacher Development Program component of the General Education Quality Improvement Program (GEQIP) in Ethiopia. Also, responsible for a number of overall planning activities that were made in order to incorporate modifications and provisions required by European donor nations and the World Bank. In these and other substantive ways, World Literacy Initiative helped achieve the final $417 million funding packaged that has been dedicated to improving the quality of education in that developing country over the 3 ½ year period beginning JAN 2009. |
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Efforts to Guide & Sustain Educational Reform
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14 Primary Term-Subject Exhibitions plus 24 Teacher College Term-Section
Exhibitions completed (Malawi and Namibia).
» Significantly improved academic performance in
ten different grade-subject
areas from January 2003 – May 2008 (Malawi)
including great improvement in girls across all subject areas.
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1 Volunteers for Academic Excellence Program exhibited successfully in
Malawi for one complete
academic
year.
Special Needs Education
Since early 2003, World Literacy Initiative has gladly made professional contributions to the development and implementation of policies in Malawi, Namibia, and Ethiopia that address the special educational circumstances and needs of special needs learners. This has particularly been true of this organization's contributions as these pertain to the mainstream classroom.
This assistance been made in broad terms through input into
ministry-level policy document development and implementation, but more particularly
it has been made by advancing
truly effective teaching methods that make mainstreaming all
learners a greatly more achievable goal by those nations adopting the
regular use of these methods. These same
Evidence Based Methods of
Instruction (EBMI) likewise make it also
more achievable for girls and learners from disadvantaged backgrounds to
compete on equal footing with boys and learners who are healthier, who may
be more privileged, or who are from
more stable home environments.
Commemorative Gift from the students and faculty of Caprivi College of Education Katima Mulilo Namibia, 2006 |
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Commemorative Gifts provided from the students and faculty of Montfort Teacher Training College Nguludi Malawi, 2004 |
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