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INTRODUCTION
extension of education and formation of the actual Myanmar culture. After the
independence on 1948, several action for educational reform was taken based
on the new education policy, and scientific approach gradually started replacing
The latest educational reform policy is reflected in the National Action Plan of
“Education for All”(EFA) published in March 2003, in line with the Dakar
Framework for Global Action. Though this Action Plan, government of Myanmar
aim to improve the accessibility and quality of education, and as one of the
As the strategy for the implementation of the Goal Area related to the
improvement of the access and quality, EFA stated the Development and
The school structure in Myanmar is 5-4-2 and the entry age for formal school
system is 5 years old. (See Figure 1) The tertiary education vary from 1 to 7
years depending on the course. As you can observe in the table 1, the primary
teacher has to take 1 year of the Educational College course after the high school,
correspondence courses for the acting teachers who don’t have yet certification
or diploma for teaching. Primary and middle school (lower secondary) teachers
are trained in one of the 20 Education Colleges (EC), and high school (upper
secondary) teachers at one of two Institutes of Education (IOE). IOE also offer
higher degree courses such as Bachelor in Education, Master and PhD courses.
(UDNR) under the Civil Service Selection and Training Board which trains local
EDUCATION COLLE GE
The Syllabus of the EC curriculum for the primary school teacher program
T.M. of Mathematics (3), T.M. of Natural Science and Social Study (3),
T.M. of Agriculture (1), T.M. of Fine Arts (1), T.M. of Music (1), Block
teaching & Assignment (2), Myanmar (4), English (4), Mathematics (4),
Physical Education (1), Industrial Arts/Dom Sc. (1), Agriculture (1), Fine Arts (1),
tutorial sessions, (2) Students are not encourage to use library facilities, (3)
support, such as; the lack of the behaviorism and cognitive science research
Approach. Also is pointed out the lack of logical and systematic structuring of the
Based on the recent field activities in Myanmar during Feb to March 2005,
Ito pointed in his activity report (Ito, 2005) that the actual problem of the
(3) Consistency and coherence of the content and structure of the subjects.
For other side regarding the quality of the EC teachers, are pointed the
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charge, knowledge and skill of Learner Centered Approach for the teaching-
aids.
By the other hand, there are several limitation and external condition that restrict
the improvement of the actual situation, such as: (1) there are very limited
library resources to support the study of the teachers and students on the
subjects, (2) Most of the classroom are small and usually there are 70 to 80
skills for EC education, (5) There are several procedures that takes long time
Considering the reality and limiting conditions, our question is; what can
Considering the problem and limitation identified in the previous section and
Capacity building on ID skill, and (4) Promotion of the LCA concepts for the ECs.
topics, among others. During the project duration, some session with
require more time for the validation –revision process and official
approval procedures.
supportive of CCA concept. For the other hand, actual textbook shows
limited to following two points: Create one new CCA supportive chapter to
attitude and behavior usually take time, we should start the promotion
activities gradually. The first stage are planned to do through the LCA
Cooperation Agency (JICA) project in Dominican Republic during year 2004 are
the new training package, and also increase the motivation and
evaluation and revision. This will facilitate the better understand of the
(3) Because the T3 will use as exercise the actual and real case of training,
applicability and retention of the obtained knowledge and skill is very high.
In the Figure2, shows the basic flow of this model in 3 stages. Here,
already filled in the topic to be utilized on this case. Upper box includes
training and a exercise using the developed training kit, and lower box are the
Figure 3 shows more detail of the process. In this flow-chart, Stage 1 and 3 will
Stage 1: This is the first step of the training. In this step, the instructor will
develop the basic ID skill of the trainers. Should apply the level 1 assessment
The design of the training kit will be done using Training Forms developed
originally by Ito & Suzuki (2001) for the third country training program in
Stage 2: This is the first On-the-Job application stage of the learning. This
chance, instructor can monitor the implementation and give suggestion for the
(behavior) assessment.
Stage 3: This is the second ID training of the Trainers. The difference than
the first ID training is the addition of the 3-2, information gathering on the
new content. While during the first ID training, the subject and content of the
exercise used the already existing content, in this stage, instructor will provide
the subject, and some information, but the some first hand information should be
by the trainers should follow the same process of Stage 2, including the level 3
assessment.
Stage 5: While Stage 2 and 4 was just the implementation exercise, this step we
can said that is a practical test to prove if really Trainers learn necessary
program.
Stage 6: Again, this is the Stage for the application of the developed course as a
routine activity.
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CONCLUSION
consider the issue and strategy for the effective implementation of a real
training system that can be applied to many other similar teacher educational
projects.
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REFERENCES
1. Ito, T.; Aksakal, M.; Yilmaz, M.; Suzuki, K. (2001), Design and
Implementation of the Educational Information System for the International
Training Program: Development of the Curriculum for “Audiovisual
Communication in Family Health”in Republic of Turkey, ICCE 2001 Korea.
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