June 12, 2017
MORE than
one million first grade schoolchildren will receive new textbooks starting this
month based on a curriculum developed by the Ministry of Education (MOE) and
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) since 2014.
The joint
MOE-JICA project, called the project for Curriculum Reform at Primary Level of
Basic Education (CREATE), is the first major reform of Myanmar’s first grade
curriculum in about 20 years.
The
textbooks are colorful with many pictures and designed to be accessible and
attractive to young children. The textbooks will be delivered with detailed teacher’s
guides for each subject. The CREATE project was developed by 40 Japanese and overseas
curriculum experts and more than 60 Myanmar academics.
The
textbooks were reviewed and approved by the National Curriculum Committee formed
by the National Education Policy Commission.
The new
primary education curriculum includes 10 subjects: Myanmar, English,
mathematics, science, social studies, morality and civics, life skills, physical
education, performing arts and visual arts. The national curriculum will be
taught alongside a local curriculum, which will be developed by each State and
Regional Government.
JICA
prepared for the introduction of the curriculum by organizing a series of MOE trainings
for township, district, state and region education officials. Union ministry
officials also attended trainings. Following these managerial sessions, the
educational reformers hosted in-service trainings for teachers across the
nation from 23 January to 26 May.
These
trainings were offered at the Union level, the state and region level, the
township level and school and family level training. The in-service trainings reached
teachers from all categories of grade one schools including monastic and
private schools. The reform group also organized curriculum trainings at Myanmar’s
education colleges so that it is the basis of teacher training programs in
academia.
Ref; The
Global New Light of Myanmar
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