Plenary: Group Report Part 1 Motivation and Teacher Education Presentation to 9th International Policy Dialogue Forum 5-7 December 2016 Siem Reap, Cambodia

1. Breakout Session Group A
Motivation and Teacher Education
Moderator: Charmaine Villet (University of Namibia) (cvillet@unam.na)
TTF Secretariat Focal Point Sonia Guerriero (UNESCO) (s.guerriero@unesco.org)
Rapporteur: Devon Wilson (Harvard GSE) (dew323@mail.harvard.edu)

2. Our Breakout Group
• Thank you our group speakers:
• Olivier Pieume (IIPE Pôle de Dakar);
• Aminudin Zhuhairi (Universitas Terbuka);
• Reinier Terwindt (STIR);
• Shunsuke Morimoto (JICA)
• Very diverse in backgrounds,
professions and the contexts where
we work.
• We worked to unify our discussions in
terms of recommendations.

3. Speaker’s Influence on Our Approach
Influence on our recommendations:
• (Not) Parallel systems → (But) Strengthen existing systems
• (Not) Strictly top down/bottom up → (But) Through the spine
We elected to look across systems on three general levels:
Macro; Meso; Micro

4. Stakeholders by Level
Macro
Meso
Micro
• Government/education bureau/school districts
• Global partners
• Teachers unions
• External interest/lobbying interest
• (Collab with) officials, business leaders, NGO’s etc.
• ICT and companies that provide this technology
• Research and research institutes
• Instructional coaches and NGO consultants
• Teachers (student teachers; full time teachers; teacher
educators.
• School admin

5. Unified Interventions by Level
(Main issues to focus on at each level)
Macro
Meso
Micro
•Advocacy for the profession
•Face issues for policy around educating teachers
•Cross sectoral approaches for development of curriculum
•Policy must include policy around ICT & policy around rewards
•Curriculum dev & collaboration to determine classroom’s future
direction.
•ICT balancing new competencies with large classroom &context.
•Research on teacher motivation (includes looking at intrinsic & extrinsic
reinforcement)
•Clear standards and competencies for teachers and teacher ed..
•Support(Mentoring; CPD; Learning Networks; Collaboration; Community
Support)

6. What do we know?
What do we need to know?
Where do we go from here?