Background

Save the Children, Thailand has been implementing ‘Eat, Play, Love and Read’ (EPLR) Project in Si Shakon and Reuso districts of Deep South, Thailand since 2019 with the objective to improve the foundational skills of children aged 4-6 years through implementation of ‘Ready to Learn’ Common approach. This approach provides learning opportunities to children at home and centers and helps acquire foundational skills in the areas of linguistic and cognitive development.

The early exposure of quality care and development experiences provided to children allow an opportunity to acquire foundational skills that are only possible when children are exposed to interactive, playful, safe, and protective learning environment. However, learning success of children depends upon various factors associated to them amidst teacher effectiveness is one that has been found most important predictors of children’s learning. Therefore, it has been important to develop capacity of teachers and enhance their competencies to provide necessary care and education support to younger children.

To address the learning needs of children and improve classroom learning environment at centers, EPLR project has designed five days teachers training on early literacy and math (ELM) to develop the capacity of teachers and enhance their competencies to make them enable to be an effective teacher. The training will allow teachers to understand basic concept of children’s development and learning, allow teachers to plan and design appropriate learning experiences and help to create an effective, inclusive, and friendly learning environment at centers. In addition to that it includes practical sessions associated to literacy and numeracy skills that amplify teachers’ professional practices to apply in classrooms.

Objectives

The overall objective of the training is to build the capacity of teachers by enhancing their knowledge, skills, and dispositions to deliver best possible learning opportunities to younger children. The specific objectives of the training include:

Understand the basic concept of children’s development and developmental domains for children aged 4-6 years.
Understand the ECCD curriculum expectations and basic teachers’ competencies required to be an effective teacher.
Understand about how children acquire and develop literacy and math skills.
Apply best possible approaches of early literacy and math skills at centers.
Develop and design key activities associated with literacy and math skills.
Able to explore manipulatives that can be used to foster the learning of literacy and math skills in the centers.

Deliverables and Timeline

Timeline:

The ELM training will be organized for five days since 21-25 November 2021 in Si Shakon and Reuso districts of Deep South, Thailand or online format (if the COVID-19 cases is still high)

Deliverables:

The training includes children development and learning concept, interactive learning, curriculum expectation, effective teachers’ competencies and practical sessions associated to five skills of early literacy (Talking and listening, understanding print, knowing about books, knowing about the alphabet, understanding words and sounds) and five skills of math (Number and counting, pattern, sorting and classification, comparison and measurement and geometry). The key deliverables expected to produce by consultant or consulting agency are:

SN	Deliverables	Output
1.	Training preparation	The consultant will prepare training content, schedule, activities materials, practical session guidance and training hands out in consultation with EPLR team. All those materials will be developed in local language (Patani-Malaya or Thai) in advance.
2.	Children’s development and learning	The consultant will make teachers enable to understand about children’s development, learning process, children’s psychology, developmental domains and connection between care and development. After completion of training, teachers will have good knowledge of how children learn and develop.
3.	ECCD Curriculum	The consultant will make teachers understand about Thai ECCD curriculum expectation, desirable characteristic standards across four developmental domains, age-appropriate desirable conditions, learning contents, and how these contents align with ELM activities and skills. After completion of training, teachers will be able to connect ELM activities with Thai ECCD curriculum expectations and plan and design age-appropriate learning experiences.
4.	Overview of ELM	The consultant will make teachers understand about how children acquire and develop literacy and math skills. After completion of training, teachers will be able to explain about importance of ELM and how it contributes to children’s language and cognitive development. They will also be able to develop and apply those skills in their professional practices.
5.	Effective teachers’ competencies	The consultant will reflect on key competencies of effective teachers and their values towards children’s care and development. After completion of training, the teachers will be able to identify their own key competencies and apply expected knowledge, skills, and dispositions in their teaching-learning practices to be a good effective teacher.
6.	Interactive Reading	The consultant will demonstrate practical sessions related to interactive reading and explain the key steps towards creating interactive reading skills. After completion of training, teachers will be able to promote interactive reading skills to adapt while doing reading activities.
7.	Early literacy skills in classroom	The consultant will introduce five early literacy skills and its associated activities to develop those skills. The consultant will design age-appropriate learning materials, demonstrate process steps of developing those materials, apply those materials in literacy activities, conduct practical sessions, endorse activities cards, and develop skills of teachers to design and apply such literacy activities in classrooms. After completion of training, teachers will be confident to apply theoretical and practical skills of early literacy. They will also be able to design best suitable activities and materials to create an effective, inclusive, and friendly learning classroom environment.
8.	Pre-math concept and overview	The consultant will provide basic understanding of pre-math skill and its associated activities to practice before starting math activities. After completion of training, teachers will be able to apply pre-math skills in children’s learning and will promote pre-math practice sessions before starting early math skills in classroom. This will allow children to build math concepts in advance to perform early math activities.
9.	Early math skills in classroom	The consultant will introduce five early math skills and its associated activities to develop those skills. The consultant will design age-appropriate learning materials, demonstrate process steps of developing those materials, apply those materials in math activities, conduct practical sessions, endorse activities cards, and develop skills of teachers to design and apply such math activities in classrooms. After completion of training, teachers will be confident to apply theoretical and practical skills of early math. They will also be able to design best suitable activities and materials to create an effective, inclusive, and friendly learning classroom environment.
10.	Final report submission	After completion of five days ELM at center-based training, the consultant will provide a narrative report, training materials, presentation slides and associated hands-outs and guidance to EPLR team. After submission of all necessary documents, the payment process will be forwarded to SCI finance.

Methodology

Training Design: Virtual ‘in-group in distance’ mode will be adapted to organize the training. The training will apply both theoretical and practical methods to facilitate the sessions.

Training Content: A standard training content will be provided by EPLR team, but content adaptations can be done as per context by discussing between two parties.

Training Participants selection and Venue: The training will be conducted for ECCD school teachers who will be from Si Shakon and Reuso districts of EPLR project area.

Session’s facilitation methods: Session’s facilitation methods basically will be power point presentation, group work, demonstration, role play, individual practical sessions, and audio-visual aids. However, specific session method will be defined by two parties in advance as demanded by training content and schedule.

Consultant Specification

Certified trainer or academically specialized in ‘Ready to Learn’ common approach with at least five years’ experience in technical area of early literacy and math component.
Proven track record of literacy and math experience in INGOs, universities or government agencies.
Strong facilitation and communication skill to facilitate high level trainings.
Familiar with local context, culture, and languages.

Supervision Arrangements

The training will be supervised by EPLR Project coordinator based in Patani field office, Thailand in close coordination with SC country office, Thailand. The technical monitoring and supervision of training will be ensured by Education field manager and quality assurance of training as per quality benchmarks will be ensured by MEAL unit.

Proposal Submission Guideline/Required Documents

Required Documents
- The trainer will provide full technical and financial proposal with 6 days cost estimation.
- CV(s) of the Trainer(s) with full date of birth in dd/mm/yyyy format. The date of birth is required for vetting purpose.
- For Individuals (Thailand): Copies of National citizenship certificate and PAN/VAT registration certificate.
If any documents/information is not available or not applicable, the reason(s) must be clarified in the proposal form. Save the Children will have the right to disqualify the proposals from the selection process if the proposal submission guideline has not been followed.

Proposal Submission Deadline 14 November 2021

The proposal shall be submitted via email to amran.vani@savethechildren.org, or Supply Chain Management Department Save the Children, Patani Field Office, Thailand

Contact : amran.vani@savethechildren.org

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