Technical Support for School Leadership Module Development

1. Introduction

The MEC was established in early 2013 to support the provision of education services for marginalized, under-served children. With an updated strategy in 2021, MEC continues to adopt a ‘systems-strengthening’ approach, to provide support for the development of ethnic and monastic complementary education. The programme works with established education providers to place an emphasis on developing the quality and inclusivity of education in Myanmar, including improved learning outcomes; and with a broader range of diverse stakeholders to address key policy barriers for the achievement of an equitable education system.

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2. Background information/context

MEC provides funding, coordination, technical assistance, and research support across different education systems to promote continuous improvement of education services and facilitate a supportive operating environment for ethnic and monastic education. MEC works to identify and promote sustainable solutions that address systemic barriers to education for hard-to-reach children. In order to ensure that quality learning is available for all children in Myanmar, through its third phase, MEC is committed to improving learning outcomes for all students through improving teacher professional development, creating a safe and inclusive environment, access to quality teaching-learning materials in relevant languages, and school improvement and leadership development. MEC works with partners in developing their operational capacity to deliver relevant and contextualised education programmes for the children in their system. The areas of technical support include developing training modules, policy reviews, curriculum and assessment standards through the integration of child safeguarding, gender, disability, and social inclusion frameworks in education.

3. Objective / Purpose of the Work

School leadership is critical in establishing a sustainable foundation for a safe, inclusive, and quality learning environment for students. Leaders at the district, township, and village/ward levels of school administration are responsible for the daily operations of the schools, including managing teacher performance, ensuring student learning and wellbeing, creating a safe learning space, and generating community support and parent involvement. MEC puts an emphasis on leadership development as it is one of the key areas of system strengthening and works with partners in providing training and professional development for school leaders at various levels. While approaches and modalities vary among education providers, the core competency areas of school leadership focus on understanding principles of educational leadership, theories of student learning and development, teacher professional development, strategic planning, human and financial management, parental involvement, and community engagement. The proposed project is to develop a new leadership module, inclusive of key competency areas and integrating the GEDSI lens, that could be contextualised for MEC partners’ education systems and adaptable to both in-person and online deliveries.

4. Services the Supplier will provide / Scope of Work & Deliverables

The project will be designed in collaboration with both MEC and partner representatives to have a common understanding of current practices in leadership development within the ethnic education systems and learning from the past modules. The supplier will bring knowledge of industry standards and experience in school leadership training and work with MEC and partners to determine the scope and structure of the module. Ideally, the module will have 30 contact hours with additional self-paced lessons for each competency area.

The objective of the School Leadership Module is to

1. Serve as onboarding training for individuals transitioning into school leadership from diverse professional backgrounds.
2. Serve as continuous professional development for current school leaders as guided and self-paced learning.

Deliverable number: 1.

Deliverable title: Leadership Module Outline

Description: This will include a module layout with key competency areas, the structure of the training, and an outline for each session of the module.

Timeline: July 2023

Deliverable number: 2.

Deliverable title: Draft School Leadership Module

Description: The draft will have completed sessions by key competency areas, with each session including an introduction to the targeted concepts, relevant, interactive activities for further reflection and understanding, instruction for facilitators, and additional self-paced activities.

Timeline: August 2023

Deliverable number: 3.

Deliverable title: Final School Leadership Module

Description: Copy-edited finalised module incorporating feedback from MEC and partners after a 2-week review.

Timeline: September 2023

Deliverable number: 4.

Deliverable title: Training on the module

Description: Co-facilitate training of the module for lead trainers (online option available)

Timeline: September 2023

5. Experience and skill set required

The successful consultant will have:

• Demonstrated expertise, skills and experience with research and writing of training modules and leadership training in education
• Demonstrated experience working in teacher education in Myanmar a distinct advantage and ability to contextualise the content for ethnic education partners
• Clear demonstrated understanding of adult learning, continuous professional development and education leadership principles
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and provide well-organised module professionally written in English.
• Ability to speak ethnic languages of Myanmar or Myanmar language a distinct advantage.

6. Location and official travel involved

Remote

7. Payment information

Total cost payable within 45 days of satisfactory completion of deliverable number or according to the proposal and contract agreement.

All suppliers and vendors are responsible to comply in line with Government’s existing Tax Law, Regulation and Policy which means Save the Children will take the contracted value as NET and will not be responsible for any Tax related payments (i.e. Commercial Tax, Withholding Tax VAT, etc.)