Shaheen, Robina, Walsh, Christopher, Power, Tom, and Burton, Sonia (2013) Assessing the impact of large-scale teacher professional development (TPD) in Bangladesh: English in Action (EIA). In: [Presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting]. From: AREA 2013: American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, 27 April - 1 May 2013, San Franciso, CA, USA.

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Abstract

English in Action (EIA) is a ground breaking 9-year project (2008–2017), being implemented through a consortium of international partners working with the Government of Bangladesh. The project aims to contribute to the country's social and economic growth by assisting 25 million people in improving their communicative English language skills. This paper illustrates EIA's innovative school based professional development (SBPD) model. This timely model is designed to achieve results at scale and is currently being used with 12,500 English teachers through 2014 and will be used with a further 80,000 English teachers and 12 million students by 2017. We argue that EIA's SBPD model—which utilises the 'trainer in your pocket' (Walsh, 2011; Walsh et al, 2013)—a low-cost mobile phone, with hundreds of teacher professional development and classroom audio and video files stored on micro secure digital (SD) cards, is timely and a pioneering intervention for international development projects which hope to achieve large scale change.

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Date Deposited:	08 Aug 2018 03:55
FoR Codes:	13 EDUCATION > 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy > 130207 LOTE, ESL and TESOL Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl Maori) @ 100%
SEO Codes:	93 EDUCATION AND TRAINING > 9302 Teaching and Instruction > 930203 Teaching and Instruction Technologies @ 100%
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