This first phase of this Teacher Guide Uptake Study (TGUS I) examines teachers’ use of TGs and application of student-centered teaching strategies to provide targeted feedback for the revision of the TGs. The second phase of the TGUS will continue to examine the adoption of the new ICT and EFL teaching materials as part of the pilot process. PURPOSE- The purpose of this first phase study is to determine what changes and adaptations, in terms of content, classroom instruction, and design, should be made to ICT and EFL TGs.

The Uzbekistan Education for Excellence Program (the Program) is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by the Ministry of Public Education (MoPE) in partnership with the RTI International Consortium, including Florida State University and Mississippi State University. Between May and October 2021, the Program conducted the Status of Instruction Study—Phase 2 (SIS2) to answer the following research questions: -- What resources do teachers use, and how much time do they invest in lesson planning? -- What resources are available at the school and in the classroom to support instruction in the subject areas under study? -- What instructional techniques are commonly used by Uzbek teachers for questioning, student engagement, student grouping, and student formative assessment and performance feedback? -- Do teachers engage in school-based community of practice activities? What opportunities and support are currently available to teachers

The Uzbekistan Education for Excellence Program funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), conducted the Teacher Support System Study (TSSS) to examine the existing teacher support system in Uzbekistan and identify teacher support challenges and opportunities. The Program is implemented by the RTI International Consortium, which includes Florida State University and Mississippi State University.

The Uzbekistan Education for Excellence Program (the Program), funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), designed the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Teacher Guide Uptake Study (TGUS) to determine teachers’ uptake of new teacher guides (TGs), teachers’ application of student-centered strategies, and the appropriateness of the design of the TGs themselves. The Program used the results and ensuing recommendations to inform the development and finalization of its teacher professional development efforts and TGs, respectively.

The conventional ways that new pedagogies are taught and supported in low- and middle-income countries rarely leverage the social networks and relationships that are paramount for individuals to shift their beliefs and make positive decisions about adopting new methodologies, and for them to sustain these behavior changes in the long run. The purpose of this study was to apply social network analysis (SNA) and qualitative inquiry to understand the composition and structure of primary school teacher social networks to inform policy basic education programming about how to improve the diffusion and support for implementation of new pedagogies through these social networks. This study used a mixed model design to study the compositional and structural properties of teacher social networks in sub-district administrative areas or “wards” in Tanzania. Using data from completed socio-metric inventories, separate teacher social networks were generated for Mbawala, Madimba, Milangominne, and Nitekela wards in the Mtwara Region of Tanzania. Researchers used SNA to calculate quantitative measurements and generate teacher sociograms (i.e., network graphs) for each of the ward-level teacher social networks. We combined these data with data from teacher informant interviews that described the content, context, and benefit of educators’ interactions in the different wards and to help explain the SNA findings.

In French, with an English Executive Summary. Senegal is embarking on an ambitious reform program with the objective of improving learning outcomes for all students by more systematically using regional mother tongues as bridges to proficient literacy in French. The Renforcement de la Lecture Initiale pour Tous (RELIT) activity made possible by the American people through USAID is supporting the National Education Ministry (MEN) in the development of the materials, pedagogy, assessments, and teacher training needed to implement the MOHEBS. The institutional capacity development elements of RELIT are by design meant to complement these other interventions. RELIT is approaching institutional capacity in terms of the knowledge and skills of actors in key positions at each level of the system, but more importantly also in terms of how those levels relate to each other and the institutional environments within which all the concerned actors operate. This relates to how their jobs are defined, how their responsibilities are assigned and resourced, and what explicit or tacit incentives or disincentives they encounter in the day-to-day fulfillment of those responsibilities. Additionally, RELIT recognized from the beginning that investments to improve institutional capacity are dependent on the engagement and willingness of the actors involved to identify their needs and, on the basis of those needs, jointly plan with RELIT the actions that will best address them. Therefore, RELIT has taken the participatory approach described below to assessing and addressing institutional capacity development needs in the education system in Senegal. This report describes the result of institutional capacity self-assessment activities in the regions involved in RELIT.

The information and communication technology (ICT) baseline assessment measured current competency of grades 9, 10, and 11 students on the Program-developed materials that include standards, teacher guides, and use of the ICT student textbooks (STB). The Program customized the STB for Uzbekistan from an internationally sourced series of ICT materials originating from Cambridge University Press. The assessment was conducted with students across these three grades in two distinct regions (Namangan and Sirdaryo) of Uzbekistan.

Developing the standards for EFL education is a major step towards the Uzbekistan’s vision of an English-speaking nation by 2030. MoPSE experts and Program technical advisors developed a set of EFL standards as the basis of a standards-based curriculum. This brief provides an overview of the development and review of EFL student learning standards for grades 1-11

Uzbekistan’s education reform envisions a competency-based curriculum consisting of standards, a scope and sequence (S&S), textbooks, and teacher guides that align with an assessment system. The scope is the vocabulary, grammar, and skills that are taught over the course of a school year, and the sequence is the order in which those skills and content are presented. The S&S is an important element of a national curriculum and serves two primary purposes. First, it elucidates the curriculum, detailing the constituent elements of the standards or competencies, thus breathing life into the national curriculum framework. Second, it provides a blueprint for national textbooks, detailing content and its order. As a blueprint for the textbook, the S&S becomes the assessment framework as it identifies the skills, grammar, and vocabulary taught at any point in the academic year.

Wanting to support effective learning in the early grades of school in a linguistically diverse country such as the Philippines it is important answer some basic questions, such as: • What languages do children come to school speaking? • Do children have more than one language that they can use when they start school? • What languages do teachers speak? • And how well do students’ and teachers’ languages match? Data from different sources is used to answers these questions.