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TORRENTE ET AL. The integrated resource materials were developed in collaboration with the MEPSP curriculum experts and included a “Teacher Guide” and a “Model Lesson Plan Bank” for all six primary school grades. The “Teacher Guide” maps the content of foundational reading, writing, and social and emotional well-being. The “Model Lesson Plan Bank” is a guided tool that supports teachers throughout the school year to teach model reading and writing lessons that support students’ social and emotional well-being, and to create their own lesson plans. Integrated instructional materials were the main tools for teacher professional development. Teacher Learning Circles All teachers participated in an intensive LRHC initial training, and subsequently took part in continuous, long-term in-service training, which used a teacher professional development approach known as Teacher Learning Circles (TLCs). TLCs are rooted in the MEPSP’s Cellule de Base de formation et encadrement (Basic Unit for training and coaching), a practice that started in 1984 under the National Service for Teacher Training and has evolved over time to include a series of nested TLCs called Forums d’Echange Pédagogique (Pedagogical Exchange Forums). The TLCs included weekly grade-level meetings led by teachers, monthly school-level meetings led by school directors, and quarterly school cluster meetings led by cluster coordinators or master teacher trainers. 4 TLCs were designed to give teachers the opportunity to exchange information, collaborate, solve problems, and support and motivate one another in learning and implementing the new strategies, while also nurturing collegiality and an increased sense of professional self-worth (Frisoli 2014; IRC 2010). Learning circles were expected to facilitate ongoing training and coaching, and provide context-specific feedback from peers, school directors, and master teacher trainers. According to the program’s Theory of Change (see figure 1), participation in TLCs was hypothesized to increase teachers’ motivation and improve the social and pedagogical processes that occur in the classroom (Emerson et al. 2010; Frazier 2009; Gaible and Burns 2005). These changes were in turn expected to drive improvements in students’ well-being and academic performance. 4 School cluster meetings are a regrouping of primary school teachers from a group of official schools in geographic proximity. Schools are usually grouped in clusters of two to six schools. 58 Journal on Education in Emergencies
QUALITY SCHOOL INTERACTIONS AND STUDENT WELL-BEING IN THE DRC Training and Implementation OPEQ relied on a multilayered model to train school inspectors, school directors, and teachers. The program’s original rollout plan consisted of a sixday training for master teacher trainers—who were typically school directors, inspectors, or experienced teachers—on the teacher resource materials for Learning to Read in a Healing Classroom and Learning Math in a Healing Classroom, and in how to assess students’ learning outcomes and implement the TLCs. This training was to be completed by July 2011, after which master teacher trainers would train teachers at an initial workshop at the school-cluster level in August-September 2011, and provide ongoing coaching and support to teachers and school directors throughout the 2011-2012 academic year. Teachers were expected to organize weekly TLCs with their peers at the same grade level to practice and support each other in the implementation of the program, and they were expected to engage in their own professional development. School directors were expected to organize monthly TLC meetings with all teachers to provide coaching on the instructional practices. What actually happened, due to delays in finalizing and producing training materials, is that only the LRHC curriculum was rolled out according to plan. The math resources were not ready until March 2012, so teacher training on Learning Math in a Healing Classroom was postponed until the 2012-2013 academic year. Moreover, reports from the field indicated that the TLCs were not being implemented according to the timeline, with the intended intensity, or in the manner planned. Therefore, in the first half of 2012, teachers, school directors, and master trainers received additional training on how to conduct TLCs. This paper therefore examines the impact of a partial implementation of LRHC during the 2011-2012 academic year. METHODS Research Design The design of the current study is summarized in figure 2 and described in detail below. The data used are from the first and second waves of a multiyear evaluation of LRHC in the eastern DRC. The evaluation employed a cluster-randomized trial with a wait-list control design, whereby clusters of two to six schools—rather than individual schools, students, or teachers—were the unit of randomization. The use of a cluster-randomized design was driven by the intervention delivery October 2015 59
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