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Over 100 Grade 4 English animated audio tracks have been uploaded to the ໂອສໍາລັບການພັດທະນາຄູ Teacher Development Videos YouTube channel

On this occasion, Australia hands over equipment of a value of LAK 476,000,000 (AUD 40,400) to the E-learning team to produce more teacher development videos.

Australia strengthens its support to the Ministry of Education and Sports on quality of primary teaching improvement with the establishment of BEQUAL offices in three target TTCs

Australia and the Department of Teacher Education are working in partnership to build the capacity of target TTCs to provide teacher continuing professional development.

Australia through the BEQUAL program will provide more support to the Ministry of Education and Sports on teacher professional development and training

This is the final year of the primary curriculum revision endeavour that started in 2018 with the support of Australia

On the occasion of the International Day of People with Disability, MoES and Australia organized a two-day workshop on inclusive education for Master Trainers and Provincial Trainers.

Australia, through the BEQUAL program, and the Department of Teacher Education are working in partnership to build the capacity of target TTCs to provide teacher continuing professional development.

Australia’s support to primary education through the BEQUAL program will amount to AUD 28 million over four years (2022-2026)

On Teachers’ Day, the Vice Minister of Education and Sports and the Australian Deputy Head of Mission officially handed over the new grade 4 materials to the teachers

On this occasion, Australia and Ministry of Education and Sports visited the Information Media Centre studio and congratulated the team for their progress in Gender Equality and Inclusive Education

With this new training video, teachers can learn 5 basic techniques for supporting students from non-Lao speaking backgrounds

Teaching of the new Grade 4 Lao Language curriculum, developed by the Ministry of Education and Sports with the support of Australia, starts nationally this September.

The new primary Science and Environment curriculum focuses on active learning through experiments that help students relate science to their daily lives and local contexts.

The new sound recording system will enable the Ministry to enhance the quality of their radio program as well as their audio teaching and learning resources production.

The media team from MoES travelled to Xiengkhouang to interview a passionate and dedicated teacher who is an inclusive education role model

A Spoken Lao curriculum has been piloted for two years in 80 remote schools and is now being revised to be ready for roll out in additional provinces

Flashcards are a very useful learning and teaching tool for teachers to encourage their students to participate actively and engage

The Master Trainers Training marks the beginning of an extensive series of cascade training to get over 9,000 Grade 4 teachers and pedagogical advisors ready to implement the new curriculum nationwide in September.

Australian Government, through its BEQUAL program, works with key counterparts at all levels of the Ministry of Education and Sports of Lao PDR to encourage and promote messages of gender equality and opportunities for women in implementation of program activities

A total of over 100 audio tracks will be available to Grade 4 Lao students and teachers to learn English in an entertaining way while being exposed to the diversity of native accents in English spoken language.

The aim of this initiative is to develop trainers’ skills and confidence in using Zoom to participate in and deliver online workshops and provide continuous support using blended online and face-to-face methods

They congratulated the Department of Teacher Education and the Provincial Education and Sports Services for selecting diverse and more gender balanced teacher training teams

Ministry of Education and Sports national and provincial stakeholders and Australia discuss the recent progress and plan for the development and implementation of the new primary curriculum

For Grade 4, Australia supports the development, production, distribution, and training of teachers for Lao Language, Science and Environment and English subjects.

Those modules are addressing most common challenges faced by primary teachers

This year a gender equality target was identified for each province with the aim of increasing the number of female team members to 50% or as close as possible

Despite the on-going COVID-19 challenges, Grade 3 teachers are trained, and new textbooks and teacher guides are delivered nationwide.

In celebration of International Day of people with disabilities, the Australian-funded BEQUAL program organized a fun and interactive session to learn basic Lao Sign Language.

The curriculum writers successfully adapted the way they were developing lessons to continue working online in an even more collaborative process.

New grade 3 materials are in schools, teachers are trained, grade 4 curriculum is in development. However, concerns were raised about schools still being closed.

Due to travel restrictions and local lockdowns, training has commenced last week online, taking this opportunity to develop participants’ skills for using online meeting platform.

A new video demonstrating the 21 Grade 3 sounds as well as over 100 English audio tracks have just been released in the ດີໂອສໍາລັບການພັດທະນາຄູ Teacher Development Videos YouTube channel.

This is the first time that the Ministry of Education and Sports has organized a workshop on the implementation of the 9th ESSDP 2021-2025 with participation at central ministry level with support from the Government of Australia.

The media team from MoES travelled to Luang Prabang to interview the first role model, a passionate teacher and active learning expert who explained how this new practice helps children learn better

9,645 Grade 3 teachers and 366 pedagogical advisors are being trained across the country. The workshops are designed to ensure COVID-19 prevention measures.

The Representatives from relevant departments of MoES and Senior Management teams of all TTCs meet to review the development and implementation of each subjects and to approve the results of the Primary Pre-Service Diploma Curriculum trial.

A new teacher development video to introduce English Phonics has just been released by the Ministry of Education and Sports, with support from Australia.

The delivery of this massive nationwide cascade training was designed to fully ensure COVID-19 prevention measures

Tetra Tech work on COVID

When filming and editing studios are relocated at home

The new video explores different techniques of the new Grade 2 Lao Language curriculum and are for the first time dubbed in Sign Language

All future teacher development videos to train teachers on the new improved primary curriculum and the new pedagogical approach will be dubbed in Sign Language.

Celebrating International Women’s month, the “Inclusive Image in media” workshop explore how to promote gender and inclusive education in the imagery produced by the Ministry of Education and Sports.

The newly established in-service curriculum writers team attended their first writing workshop to produce high-quality teacher learning resources for primary teachers

Last week, the Information and Media Center team was filming a TV spot to remind students and parents to return textbooks on time and in good condition at the end of the schoolyear

Technical staff from the Ministry of Education and Sports will visit a total of 21 districts in 8 weeks.

Last week, BEQUAL program organised a 1.5 days’ workshop on the basics of management theory for local BEQUAL and LAI managers in Laos

The purpose of the workshop is to revise the 18 Provincial Trainer teams responsible for the in-service training on the new improved primary curriculum and continuing professional development support for primary teachers.

More than 100 participants gather to share information and lessons learned on the development and implementation of the new improved primary curriculum

During the meeting, Australia hands over equipment to the Research Institute for Educational Sciences for the layout of curriculum materials and the production of teacher development videos

The audio material will enable Lao students to learn English in an entertaining way and expose them to the diversity of native accents in English spoken language

Future teacher development videos to train teachers on the new improved primary curriculum and the new pedagogical approach will be dubbed in Sign Language.

Grade 1 students from non-Lao speaking backgrounds will receive up to an additional hour of instructions a day to improve their ability to read and write Lao language

Curriculum writers received guidance on how to promote active learning and integrate the multigrade strategy in the development of the new teaching and learning materials

Last week, Department of Teacher Education monitored remotely primary classroom observations by provincial trainers and provided live guidance via Zoom conference

In a joint event, MoES and Australia reflect on Inclusive Education with a series of testimonies and panel discussions from people living with disabilities and inclusive education experts.

The videos explore different techniques to assess and support students’ learning

All curriculum subject teams including writers and layout staff from the Research Institute of Educational Sciences (RIES) attended a weeklong workshop to finalise the editing of the teaching and learning materials.

Acknowledging the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia also handed over videoconferencing equipment to the Ministry to facilitate online workshops, meetings and trainings

18 of the Ministry’s priority districts will receive extra support from Australia to strengthen the implementation of the revised primary curriculum, out of a total of 34 districts supported by Australia

7 districts took the initiative to use savings made through efficient management of Education Support Grants, to reinforce Grade 1 teachers’ professional development

While teachers are being trained nationwide on the new Grade 2 curriculum, the Research Institute of Educational Sciences is producing new videos to train teachers on how to assess and support students’ learning

10,304 Grade 2 teachers and pedagogical advisors are being trained across the country. Delivery of the workshops has been modified to ensure COVID-19 prevention

Champasak Provincial Education and Sports Services (PESS) and its 10 District Education and Sports Bureaux have organised the training of 833 participants including all Grade 2 teachers and Pedagogical Advisors in the province implementing strict COVID-19 prevention measures.

With support from Australia and European Union, the Ministry of Education and Sports is developing a new approach to teaching and learning

The monitoring visits were put on hold during the COVID pandemic when TTCs were temporarily closed but have now resumed

Their feedback will inform the development of the final versions of the new Grade 3 textbooks and teacher guides to be implemented in September 2021.

The BEQUAL Technical Meeting was organized as a hybrid online and in-person event in four different locations simultaneously to ensure social distancing, reduce travelling and other COVID-19 prevention measures.

The delivery of the training was designed to ensure COVID-19 prevention measures

Districts will now liaise with the primary schools to distribute the new textbooks and teacher resource boxes to all Grade 2 schools before the start of the new school year

Australia and European Union continues to support the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) with grade by grade curriculum development and delivery during COVID crisis

98% of the Grade 1 students observed in over 1,900 primary schools were learning with the new set of textbooks.

Today is the last day of school – Time to remember the best moments and imagine activities for the break

The Ministry of Education and Sports immediately launched a new TV/radio teaching program covering the key primary subjects in response to the schools’ closure

Last year, Coffey’s BEQUAL team in Laos decided to minimize its negative impact on the environment and to take action against single plastic use in the workplace.

The packing of 9365 Grade 2 teacher resource boxes was finished right in time before the Prime Minister’s order 06 came into effect. The trucks are scheduled to depart after the PiMai holidays to deliver to 148 DESBs for every school in the country.

A special day for Learn Together – Parents come to visit the classroom…

The new videos on the core Lao Language techniques of the new Grade 1 curriculum and on professional development activities

Come join Nok Noy, Nok Young, the storytelling team and your favourite little clay heroes for Sports Day!

Teaching yoga have many benefits; it will help improves students’ behaviour, physical health and academic performance.

3 pigs + 2 cows + 3 ducks =?
Have fun learning to count with this new episode of Learn Together

Do you remember your first poem? The first books you were able to read by yourself?
Follow the adventures of your favorite heroes and discover a beautiful poem on a special garden in this new episode of Learn Together.

What better way to celebrate International Women’s Day and promote the importance of education than meeting 3 inspirational women teachers and providing them with the opportunity to learn about the supply chain of the new Grade 2 learning materials in a refurbished Ministry’s Km3 warehouse.

Primary Curriculum Writers attended a three-day professional development workshop to strengthen their active teaching and learning curriculum writing skills

Have you ever had an argument with your best friend? How did you resolve it? And what about recess? Are you playing with you friends or do you wander alone not knowing what to do? Follow the adventures of your favorite heroes and learn about being a good friend!

Curriculum writers revise Semester 1 Year 1 materials based on feedback from teacher-trainers at the trial TTCs

Will the leaf float or sink? And the little stone? Have you ever tried to drop objects in the water to see what will happen?

A new approach to learning in Lao PDR

In preparation for the implementation of the new Grade 2 curriculum and commencement of Grade 3 writing, education stakeholders convene to discuss how to address multigrade teaching in primary school

Last month, a group of 3 Master Trainers and 25 Grade 2 teachers participated in the trial of the Grade 2 curriculum orientation training to learn about and test the new Grade 2 teaching and learning resources that will be used nationwide starting next school year

The new videos focus on the core Lao Language techniques of the new Grade 1 curriculum

Actors from the education sector are convening today to discuss results, learnings and next steps from fifteen innovative pilot projects

In September 2019, the training of all Year 1 teacher trainees in the 8 Teacher Training Colleges started with the new pre-service curriculum. As the end of the first semester approaches, the pre-service curriculum development teams are preparing for the new end of Semester 1 assessment to evaluate teacher-trainees’ understanding, knowledge and skills after this first period of teacher training.

Watch the latest episode of Learn Together and learn why going to school every day is important!

During the last 2 weeks, a selection of Grade 1 students underwent an “Early Grade Lao Language Assessment” (EGLA) test that will serve as a baseline reference for the pilot.

An iterative process of curriculum development to allow on-going learning and continuous improvement

M is for Mountains!

How can a student stay healthy when their school lacks a toilet? Inadequate sanitation is estimated to cause 432,000 diarrhoeal deaths in the world every year and is a major factor for diseases such as intestinal worms.

Follow the adventures of Kham and his friends in the latest Learn Together episode