Country: Myanmar
Closing date: 01 Jul 2018
National Consultant (Local Knowledge) to assist local curriculum teams in developing local curriculum materials (local knowledge) including teacher trainings for Grade 1 to 3 in 5 States (Chin, Mon, Kayin, Kayah and Kachin)
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Background
An opportunity opened up when national education legal framework, the National Education Law (NEL) (2014) and the NEL Amendment (2015) provided a chance to state governments to develop local curriculum for states/ regions in line with the Basic Education Curriculum Framework (6th version) with up to 120 hours per year of instructional time for Primary Education. Relevant local curriculum responds to many of the 13 principles of Basic Education Curriculum in Myanmar, in particular: appreciation of all cultures, customs and traditions; peaceful coexistence and living in harmony; and promoting equality, despite the differences in gender, race, language, etc. This is in line with one of the nine transformational shifts of the National Education Strategic Plan (NESP) 2016-2021 on Basic Education Curriculum: “All school children develop knowledge, skills, attitudes, and competencies that are relevant to their lives, and to the socio-economic development needs of 21st century Myanmar”. In accordance with legal framework and policy strategies, Ministry of Education (MoE) prepared local curriculum guidelines and distributed to state governments to be able to develop local curriculum as per local requirement With Ministry’s guidance, National Curriculum Team will provide technical contributions to states to make sure having harmonize approach between national curriculum framework and local curriculum development.
State governments are motivated to develop local curriculum for their children that will promote positive social norms, teach local languages, literature, agricultural and business situations, and preserve cultural and historic heritage. Local curriculum development provides an opportunity to contextualise the content of teaching and learning, toupliftself-esteem of ethnic children through their learning achievement and to promote inter-cultural respect and understanding. On the other hand, according to the NEL, this is an outstanding opportunity for the states to practice education decentralization and, state governments have prior responsibility to support local curriculum development for their states. Therefore, while taking ownership to develop local curriculum in states and regions, the state governments are seeking technical and financial support from the national government and development partners to support this process.
During the first local curriculum development workshop, five states have identified three main domains for local curriculum development. They are local knowledge, ethnic language teaching and vocation trainings (secondary). The teams requested UNICEF to provide technical assistance to the teams to develop local curriculum (local knowledge). UNICEF believes that a participative local curriculum development process has the potential to contribute to a more relevant learning among all children and therefore promote inclusion and cohesion in and through education.
Objectives of the Consultancy
To provide technical inputs to local curriculum teams in developing local curriculum (local knowledge) for Grade (1 to 3) in five states from July to Dec, 2018.
Assignment Tasks and Expected Deliverables
Task 1:
Provide technical assistance to LDC Teams in drafting and finalizing the curriculum contents (local curriculum) for Primary Level (Grade 1 to 3) by conducting series of meetings with LDC Teams
End Product/Deliverable 1:
Local Curriculum (Grade 1 to 3) drafted for states
Task 2:
Provide technical assistance in developing the Teacher Guide Books according to the Curriculum Contents (local knowledge) developing by the LCD Teams
End product/ Deliverable 2:
Teacher guides (for primary education) drafted for states
Task 3:
Provide support to conduct ToT Training (local knowledge) for selected teachers from five states.
End product/Deliverable 3:
Teacher trainings (ToT) to teachers, annexed by participants’ list and all training materials for states
Task 4:
If necessary, continue to provide support to some states (where having process delay due to political dynamic) to complete local curriculum, teacher guides and teaching trainings
End product/ Deliverable 4:
Final report summarizing outcome of teacher trainings (ToT) to teachers, annexed by participants’ list and all training materials for all states
Qualification and specialized knowledge/experience required for the assignment:
The national consultant will be expected to meet the following minimum qualifications:
Demonstrated ability to use computer effectively in both English and Myanmar;
Interested candidates are requested to submit the application with updated CV and completed EOI form.
TOR_national consultant_LCD.docxEoI template_NC_LCD.doc
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