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Experience Exchange between ECA and Latin America: Learning Across Regions

 QUALITY: Poor outcomes in relative and

absolute terms

• 57% of 15 yr olds functionally illiterate, compared to

18.8% in OECD and 17.4% in the Russian Federation

• Rural students 2 full years behind urban peers

 EFFICIENCY: Decreasing school age population

 Education reform tackling quality, efficiency

and relevance

• Strengthened quality measurement tools:

modernized student assessments; joined PISA (2009 Plus and 2015); consolidated EMIS

• Promoted transparency in access to information:

school report cards

• Introduced per capita financing and decentralization

 promoting consolidation of school network

 Partner supporting education sector for over 5 years

through multiple instruments

 Education Reform Project supports:

1. implementation of quality assurance standards for receiving schools 2. establishment of teachers’ and school directors’ training and remuneration programs 3. improvement in student assessment systems 4. strengthening efficiency of the sector improvement in the quality of data and management systems

 Disburses against set of indicators (actions, outputs

and outcomes) focused on education quality and efficiency

 Project designed to disburse USD 6 million once:

• Training program for teachers and directors is updated and

approved

• Agreed percentage of teachers and directors are trained under

the updated program

• New remuneration program for teachers and directors is

adopted

 Brainstorming session

rainstorming session between key Ministry

• fficials and Bank’s experts focused on teachers’

recruitment, career, remuneration, incentives, and training.

 SABER-Teachers 2014

SABER-Teachers 2014 country report identified the strengths and weaknesses of the teacher policies in Moldova and pinpointed areas for improvement.

 Grant financing

Grant financing from South to South Facility to promote learning exchange on teacher issues (U$47k)

 Increase knowledge base as a first step stone to

devising policy reforms

 Replicate success; avoid same mistakes  Bonus: Participation of officials from Georgia,

promoting intra-regional exchanges

 How? Meeting key policy makers, lectures and

debriefings from officials and local experts on specific topics, visits to government offices/agencies and schools

 Among countries with biggest PISA improvement

(2000 and 2012)

 Solid assessment systems providing tools to measure

and monitor quality

 Have tackled various aspects of improving the

teaching force, including recruitment, performance evaluations, deployment, accountability and incentives

 Chile was the first country to introduce a teacher

bonus program (1996)

 Brazil provides opportunity to learn interventions at

various levels of the system (federal, state and municipal)

 Enhanced knowledge, skills and implementation

know-how

 Establishment of an informal peer network that could

function as a sounding board

 Enjoyment of the host cities