BRAC Education Programme (BEP) team has been working to support professional development and school improvement in a number of non-government secondary schools, targeting schools serving disadvantaged communities. In 2004, BEP began a pilot program of Computer Aided Learning (CAL), to explore whether high-quality multimedia resources could be developed and used to improve the teaching of English, Mathematics and Science. Teachers were intended to be able to use these materials for whole-class teaching. Fifty non-government secondary schools were selected for the BRAC-CAL pilot, with 300 teachers participating (six teachers were selected from each school – 2 teachers per subject- to provide peer support). Pilot schools were encouraged to retrofit one existing classroom for CAL, with the BRAC-CAL program providing one computer and either a data-projector or series of ‘daisy-chained’ monitors, so all students could see and hear the multimedia curriculum materials being presented by teachers. Teachers were provided with initial training (covering: basic ICT skills; ICT troubleshooting; how to access and use the CAL materials) and several refresher training (with updates to the materials and further support to classroom use) over several years. Teachers were also visited in schools over a sustained period of time, for classroom observation and technical or pedagogic support.
Authors: Power, Tom; Babu, Rasel; Chowdhury, Tanjeeba
Type: Monograph
Year: 2017
