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Aligning the Djibouti Education System Using the Results of ALIGN
Thu, March 14, 9:30 to 11:00am, Hyatt Regency Miami, Floor: Third Level, Foster 2Proposal
A presentation on the use of the ALIGN process in Djibouti will share how the donor-funded project, a five-year program, supports the primary education system through a review of the reading curriculum and the development of corresponding TLM, teacher training (pre-service and in-service), and assessments.
At the beginning of the project, the primary education system was not well-aligned. Teacher training initiatives were not directly tied to the TLM. Pre-service and in-service teacher training were uncoordinated and did not adequately prepare new teachers for classrooms. Student assessments were not aligned with the curriculum; therefore students were not being tested on skills they’d been taught.
When the GPF was released in 2019, the Ministry of Education, with project support, sought to align their Early Grade Reading Assessments, curriculum, and accompanying TLM to this framework. To prepare teachers to teach to the revised curriculum and build teachers’ content and pedagogical knowledge, the Ministry of Education also revised the in-service and pre-service teacher training. This experience served as a case study to inform the development of the ALIGN toolkit. This presentation will discuss the project’s iterative process to assist the Ministry of Education in aligning these components for a more robust and data-informed education system. It will also present how together, the project and Ministry of Education continuously aligned and realigned the four components based on the evolving GPF and on teacher feedback and student assessment data so that the ultimate aligned components of the system worked together to maximize student reading outcomes.
Participants will learn the nuances of what it takes to align an education system, including how to garner buy-in to the process from local governments and how to make adaptations needed to better align an education system.