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TEACHER MOBILITY STUDY LECTURE POUR TOUS Submitted: October 26, 2017 Revised: March 2, 2018 Contract Number: AID-OAA-I-14-00055/AID-685-TO-16-00003 Activity Start and End Date: October 26, 2016 to July 10, 2021 Total Award Amount: $71,097,573.00 Contract Officer’s Representative: Kadiatou Cisse Abbassi Submitted by: Chemonics International Sacre Coeur Pyrotechnie Lot No. 73, Cite Keur Gorgui Tel: 221 78585 66 51 Email: [email protected] [Activity Name] Activity M&E Plan [Approved or draft with date] 1 TEACHER MOBILITY STUDY Contracted under AID-OAA-I-14-00055/AID-685-TO-16-00003 Lecture Pour Tous DISCLAIMER The author’s views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development or the United States Government. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................ 4 2 CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY ............................................ 9 2.1 Context of the Study ................................................................................................ 9 2.2 Purpose and Objectives of the Study ................................................................. 10 3 METHODOLOGY .................................................................................................. 11 3.1 Definitions of concepts .......................................................................................... 11 3.2 Research questions ................................................................................................. 12 3.3 Data collection ........................................................................................................ 12 3.3.1 Data Collection Tools .......................................................................................... 13 3.3.2 Data Collection Methods and Timing .............................................................. 13 3.3.3 Data Processing and Data Entry ....................................................................... 13 3.4 Sampling ................................................................................................................... 13 3.5 Limitations ............................................................................................................... 14 4 RESULTS OF THE STUDY.................................................................................. 15 4.1 The current system of management of the teachers ..................................... 15 4.1.1 Description of the current system of management of the teachers ........ 15 4.1.2 Analysis of the current situation ....................................................................... 16 4.1.3 Management of the mobility of the teachers through MIRADOR ........... 17 4.1.4 Rules governing the assignment of the teachers that influence teacher mobility ............................................................................................ 17 4.1.5 Decision-making processes related to the assignment and the transfer of the teachers ............................................................................................ 18 4.1.6 Role of the unions in teacher management ................................................... 18 4.2 Realities of teacher management and mobility ............................................... 18 4.2.1 Profiles of the schools, of the directors, and of the teachers surveyed ... 19 4.3 Managing teacher mobility within schools ........................................................ 27 4.3.1 Management of Departures ............................................................................... 29 4.3.2 Classes Preferred by the Teachers and Difficult Classes ............................ 29 4.3.3 Needs for redeployment ..................................................................................... 32 4.3.4 Mobility as a sanction ........................................................................................... 33 4.3.5 Teachers’ Preferred Destinations ..................................................................... 33 4.3.6 Scale of the mobility of teachers ....................................................................... 35 iii 4.3.7 The most mobile teachers ................................................................................. 36 4.4 The question of language in the movement of the teachers ........................ 37 4.4.1 Consider the language competencies in national languages in the requests for teacher assignments and transfers ...................................................... 37 4.5 Retention of the teachers trained in the framework of the program ........ 39 5 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................. 43 5.1 Conclusions .............................................................................................................. 43 5.2 Recommendations .................................................................................................. 44 6 APPENDICES .......................................................................................................... 46 6.1 Bibliography ............................................................................................................. 46 6.2 List of tables ............................................................................................................. 46 6.3 List of graphics ......................................................................................................... 47 6.4 Data collection tools .............................................................................................. 48 6.5 Work schedule ........................................................................................................ 49 iv ACRONYMS APE: Association of the Parents of Students ANPE: National Association of the Parents of Students ARED: Association of Research and Education for Development CAP: Certificate of Teaching Aptitude CDF: Double shift teaching CMG: Multi-grade classrooms CFEE: Certificate of End of Elementary Studies CRFPE: Regional Center of Training for Education Personnel CI: Grade 1 CP: Grade 2 CE1 : Grade 3 CE2: Grade 4 CM1/CM2: Grade 5/Grade 6 CREM: Competitive exam of recruitment of the Student-Teachers BRH: Human Resources Office DRH: Human Resources Directorate EBJA: Basic Education of Youth and of Adults ELAN: School and National Languages in Africa EP: Educational team IA: Academy Inspection (regional level) IEF: Education and Training Inspection (district level) MIRADOR: Integrated Management of the Linked Resources on a Rational Endowment MEN: Ministry of National Education MFPAA: Ministry of Professional Training of Learning and of Trade OS: Order of Service PAQUET-EF: Programme d’Amélioration de la Qualité, de l’Equité et de la Transparence dans l ’Education et la Formation [Translator’s Note: Program of the Improvement of Quality, Fairness and of Transparency in Education and in Training] PASEC: Programme d’Analyse des Systèmes Éducatifs de la CONFEMEN [Translator’s Note: Program of Analysis of the Educational Systems of the CONFEMEN] SNERS: National System of Evaluation of the Scholastic Yield PDEF: Ten-Year Program of Education and of Training TICE: Technology of Information and of Communication at School 1 ACKNOWLEDGMENT We would like to thank all the participants of this study. The following participants were met in an individual or group interview, in addition to the directors and the teachers who responded to the questionnaires. IA/IEF First name and LAST Function NAME IA KAOLACK Khadidiatou DIALLO Inspector of the Academy of Kaolack Thierno Haby BA Chief Inspector of IEF Kaolack Commune Assane BADJI Chief Inspector of North District, IEF Kaolack Commune Sidy GNINGUE Responsible for monitoring-evaluation IEF Kaolack Edouard NDAO Head HR Office IEF Kaolack Com. IA BIRKILANE Maba Diakhou BA Inspector of the Academy of Kaffrine Ndeye Diarra Mbaye Chief Inspector of IEF Birkilane Youssoupha MAR General Secretary IEF Birkilane Alioune MAKINTAYE Head HR Office IEF Birkilane IA FATICK Papa Gorgui NDIAYE Inspector of the Academy of Fatick Sidy FALL Chief Inspector of IEF Fatick Absa Ba ATHIE Head HR Office IEF Fatick, responsible for teacher planning Abdoulaye Adama DIALLO Focal point Program AT-PNLSen Mamadou Lamine SOW General Secretary IEF Fatick General Secretaries of Teacher Unions First name and LAST Unions NAME Souleymane DIALLO SELS Awa WADE UDEN Sewrou SENE SAEMS Abdou FATY SELS/A 2 Representatives HR Directorate (MEN) First name and LAST Function NAME Mamadou Seydi LY Coordinator Seydou DIALLO Head Office Mobility Mamadou SONKO Head Office MIRADOR Ibrahima Abdoulaye WATT Head of estimated Management Division of Employment and Skills Yeya LY Head of Recruitment Office Samba DIAGNE Head of Statistics Office We would particularly like to thank the MEN for its support to the study. 3 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The USAID/All Children Reading Activity in Senegal, referred to as Lecture Pour Tous, aims to greatly improve reading levels for students in Grades 1-3 (CI – CE1) through an effective, sustainable, and scalable national program. This technical assistance program targets three outcomes to achieve this goal: improved early grade reading instruction in public primary schools and daaras, improved delivery systems for early grade reading instruction, and improved parent and community engagement in early grade reading. The government of Senegal is launching the National Reading Program in the context of nationwide