BRAC Institute of Languages (BIL) has conducted a threefold training programme in August as a part of module development for teacher training. The first two parts of the training were organized to develop a pool of trainers and primary school teachers in Kustia and in Meherpur, and these were followed by a workshop with National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) and Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) in Dhaka.
From 9-13 August 2015, a five-day long training of trainers (ToT) session, titled “Infusion of ICT in Education: Training of Trainers (ToT) on English Basic Pedagogy and Using Audio Visual Material” was conducted at the Primary Teachers’ Training Institute (PTI), Kustia. The training session, facilitated by BIL faculty members, Mohammad Aminul Islam, Mohammad Golam Mohiuddin, and Md. Mahbubul Islam, was organized by Save the Children. The participants for this session were assistant teachers and head teachers of government primary schools, instructors of Upazilla Resource Centres (URC) and PTI, Kustia. During the sessions, the facilitators shared the training manuals with the participants and obtained feedback and comments for further development of the module.
The second phase of the training programme was a five-day long teacher training at Upazilla Resource Centre (URC), Sadar, Meherpur, from 16-20 August, 2015. This session, again, was facilitated by the BIL faculty members and was organized by Save the Children, Meherpur. The participants were 25 teachers of government primary schools of Meherpur district. The objective of the session was to give the participants hands on training on how to use digital content in English classes with basic pedagogy of teaching and learning.
Finally, BIL faculty members conducted a workshop with the representatives of NCTB and DPE in Dhaka on 27 August 2015, once again, organized by Save the Children. In the workshop, BIL faculty members Md. Mahbubul Islam and Moshiur Rahman, shared the background and objectives of the project as well as the steps of module development process. The training manuals were also shared with the experts with a view of receiving some more feedback that would help with the final development of the modules.