This internship will have two primary focuses: 1) assisting the Teaching and Learning (T&L) team in advancing their international pre-primary strategy (50%). 2) assisting the Education Equity Research Initiative’s Disability Task Team’s investigation into how select education systems are making efforts to screen and identify students with special learning needs (50%).
Focus 1: Advancing the T&L team’s international pre-primary strategy
For the first focus, the Intern will provide support to the Teaching and Learning team on researching international pre-primary programming (including teacher /caregiver professional development, parental/community engagement, developmentally-appropriate practice, school readiness assessment and special topics like integrated pre-primary programming) to feed into a toolkit for pre-primary. The intern will also support the team’s business development efforts regarding pre-primary.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct web searches and review recent research reports and presentations relative to pre-primary and integrated pre-primary.
- Develop a draft toolkit that synthesizes best practices in pre-primary delivery relative to teacher /caregiver professional development, parental/community engagement, developmentally-appropriate practice (including pedagogy and materials), school readiness assessment and special topics like integrated pre-primary programming for internal audiences.
- Support staff development of tools and guidance regarding different aspects of pre-primary proposal development processes (information gathering, staffing, budgeting, work planning, writing)
Focus 2: Supporting the Education Equity Research Initiative’s Research on Disability Screening
For the second focus, the Intern will support the Equity Initiative’s Disability Task Team’s investigation into how select education systems are making efforts to screen and identify students with special learning needs. This work builds upon the Disability Task Team’s previous inclusive education policy landscape analysis to examine and compare various approaches used in Cambodia, Ghana, India, Malawi, and South Africa. The aim of this work is to better understand (a) what forms of screening are used and what disability domains are screened for (e.g., vision, hearing, intellectual, socio-emotional, behavioral), (b) what happens once students are screened and how are teachers and caregivers informed and involved to ensure appropriate follow-up and targeted support, (c) what approaches are taken to ensure screening data is used to inform the services provided to children with disabilities?
- Conducting desk research on disability screening approaches used across target countries.
- Leading interviews with key stakeholders from relevant international and local education organizations and agencies.
- Participating in regularly scheduled Disability Task Team calls.
- Contributing to the design and development of a presentation highlighting study findings.
- Contributing to the development of a blog article summarizing study findings.
- Performing additional research, administration and outreach tasks, as needed.
- Working knowledge of fundamental concepts of preschool teaching and other areas of specialty related to international education such as reading, instructional design, early childhood development, and bilingual education preferred
- Experience teaching in preschool or primary schools preferred
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English required, including experience and competency in editing and formatting
- Ability to establish priorities, work independently, to be flexible and collaborative
- Good organizational skills, including attention to detail and ability to multi-task
- Proficiency with basic Microsoft tools such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint required
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