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Enhancing and Advancing Basic Learning and Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Enable Bih ENHANCING AND ADVANCING BASIC LEARNING AND EDUCATION IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA – ENABLE BIH QUARTERLY NARRATIVE REPORT For the period January - March 2019 Submitted April 30, 2019, revised May 16, 2019 This document was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. It was prepared by Save the Children. ENHANCING AND ADVANCING BASIC LEARNING AND EDUCATION IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Cooperative Agreement No AID-168-16-000001 2 *For the purpose of uploading documents to the DEC, all personal information and pictures were removed and replaced with “XXX” Table of Contents LIST OF ACRONYMS ............................................................................................................................. 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................................................ 5 ABOUT THE PROJECT ENABLE-BIH ................................................................................................... 7 1. Purpose of the Project................................................................................................................ 7 SECTION I ............................................................................................................................................ 12 1. Project Activities and Results ................................................................................................... 12 a) Signing Memorandums of Understanding with the Ministry of Education and Culture of Republic of Srpska and the Faculty for Mathematics and Natural Sciences in Banja Luka, University of Banja Luka ................................................................................................................ 12 b) Printing of STEM and PPDM Documents .............................................................................. 12 c) 3rd and the last round of Training of Trainer (ToT) Training for new group of STEM-PPDM master trainers / mentors ............................................................................................................. 13 d) Equipping STEM Model Schools ............................................................................................ 18 e) ROBOKIDS Banja Luka and INTERA Mostar –Technological Parks ........................................ 18 f) STEM OTC Web-application completed and launched in BETA version ............................... 18 g) Advocacy Activities and Promotion of the Project ............................................................... 23 h) STEM Roll-out in 7 out of 12 Model Schools .............................................................. 24 A detailed and translated Plan you may find in the Annex A of the Report. ............................... 32 i) Challenges and Lessons-Learned .................................................................................. 36 2. Monitoring and Evaluation ....................................................................................................... 37 3. Project Operations ................................................................................................................... 41 a) Human resources .................................................................................................................. 41 b) Procurement ......................................................................................................................... 41 SECTION II – MAJOR ACTIVITIES PLANNED FOR NEXT QUARTER .............................................. 42 ANNEX I – Stories I ......................................................................................................................... 43 Story II............................................................................................................................................... 46 Story III.............................................................................................................................................. 48 ANNEX II – Quality Benchmarks Table ....................................................................................... 51 ANNEX III – ENABLE MEAL – Results ......................................................................................... 83 ANNEX IV – Indicator Performance Tracking Table (IPTT) ..................................................... 91 3 *For the purpose of uploading documents to the DEC, all personal information and pictures were removed and replaced with “XXX” LIST OF ACRONYMS APOSO Agency for Pre-Primary, Primary and Secondary Education of BiH BiH Bosnia and Herzegovina CCC Common Core Curricula CD Country Director CSSP Civil Society Sustainability Project ECCD Early Childhood Care and Development ENABLE Enhancing and Advancing Basic Learning and Education EU European Union EWG Expert Working Group FYR(OM) Former Yugoslavian Republic (of Macedonia) HEA Agency for Development of Higher Education and Quality Assurance of Bosnia and Herzegovina IE Inclusive education INGO International Non-Government Organization LO Learning-outcomes LoE Level of Effort MEAL Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning MIS Management Information System MoCA Ministry of Civil Affairs MoE Ministry of Education MOU Memorandum of Understanding NWB Northwest Balkans OSCE Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe OTC Operational Teaching Curricula PAB Project Advisory Board PISA Program for International Student Assessment PPDM Pedagogy, Psychology, Didactics and Teaching Methods RS Republic of Srpska SAA Same as above SAR Special Administrative Region SC Save the Children SLO Student Learning Outcome STEM Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics TE Teacher Education TIMSS Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study ToT Training-of-Trainers UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund USAID United States Agency for International Development WG Working Group 4 *For the purpose of uploading documents to the DEC, all personal information and pictures were removed and replaced with “XXX” EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In the period from January – March 2019, Save the Children in North West Balkans (SCiNWB) continue supporting STEM integration in model schools, completed establishment of STEM Laboratories in Republika Srpska, thus all 12 Laboratories (with the public and ceremonial openings of first two in Republika Srspka in March 2019, organized 3rd and the last round of Training of Trainer (ToT) Training for remaining group of STEM/PPDM (pedagogy, psychology, didactics and methodology) Trainers/Mentors from Republika Srpska and Herzegovina – Neretva Canton as well continued with the advocating/lobbing for STEM introduction and integration in the primary and secondary school curriculum, Faculties of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in Banja Luka, Mostar and Sarajevo) as well as PPDM at the University level. Towards this goal, The ENABLE-BiH project team held series of technical-consultative working sessions with Ministries/Departments of Education, management of STEM model schools, STEM-PPDM Trainers/Mentors and trained teachers in model schools (Sarajevo Canton, Herzegovina-Neretva Canton and Brcko-District) during January to March 2019 to support development of an Implementation Plan of STEM integration in regular curricula and teaching process1. Another highlight from the project’s quarter is preparation and completion of 3rd /last round of Training for STEM-PPDM Trainers/Mentors on February 24-28, 2019 (5 days). The training equipped additional 29 key educational professionals and field practitioners (Republika Srpska, Sarajevo Canton, Herzegovina-Neretva Canton and Brcko-District2) with an in-depth understanding of STEM and PPDM concepts/approaches, concrete methods for implementing and integrating STEM into the current curriculum and practical tools and guidelines to replicate STEM in the classroom environment. The training was extremely well received and accepted and like in trainings implemented in December 2018, a group of the most prominent trained ToT Trainers/Mentors (trained during summer 2018) again joined STEM/PPDM experts in training preparation and delivery bringing new group of trainees a first-hand trainers experience from realized replication trainings (end of August-beginning of October 2018) and direct mentorship experience from STEM roll-out during September-December 2018 and the latest co-training experience during third ToT training in December 2018. A general Memorandum of Understating – MoU (Ministry of Education and Culture of Republika Srpska and Save the Children) have been agreed and signed by mid-February 2019 in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska. Additionally, a detailed MoU have been signed with the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences also by mid-February 2019 in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, as well as prepared MoUs with the Faculties for Mathematics and Natural Science of Mostar and Sarajevo and Technological Park Intera from Mostar. A very detailed MoU, detailing roles and responsibilities of Save the Children, Ministry of Education and Culture of RS and Model Schools in Republika Srspka have been drafted pending last clearances and signature with responsible institutions and Save the Children in May 2019. Also, the procurement and establishing of the STEM Centers of Excellences in 3 STEM related faculties (Banja Luka, Mostar, Sarajevo) and Technological Park ‘Intera’ from Mostar that will facilitate STEM teaching and learning is underway also expected to be finalized in May/mid-June 2019. 1Coordinator on behalf
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