Terms of Reference (TOR) for providing Digital Skills Training to Teachers

Hilly Region Development Campaign (HRDC), Jajarkot

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HRDC Jajarkot

Terms of Reference (TOR) for providing Digital Skills Training to Teachers

Background of HRDC

Hilly Region Development Campaign (HRDC), Jajarkot is working with the partnership of Save the Children funded  ABASAR- II project which is one of the integrated project  focusing on child poverty with livelihood activities, education, child protection and child rights governance interventions in Bheri Municipality, Shivalaya Rural Municipality and Kushe Rural Municipality of Jajarkot District for the overall goal of “Children from the most deprived and vulnerable families are educated, protected and their families are economically resilient” with three outcome areas. Similarly, the objective of education theme is to increase school regularity of grade 9 & 10 children from the poor and marginalized families and develop the academic skill for them succeed.

Background of the project

HRDC in partnership with Save the Children is implementing integrated project Abasar II. Abasar II, a two years' project started from November 2022, has been planned to address issues around deeply entrenched poverty, food insecurity, school dropout and learning losses due to migration along with lack of access to safe quality education, poor child protection and governance system inefficiency to respond to the needs of the children and families in an integrated way. The three key outcome areas necessary to operationalize this integrated project is presented below.

  • Food security and incomes of poor and marginalized families increased.
  • Increased school regularity of the children from the poor and marginalized families
  • Local government systems and policies are in place for family's economic empowerment and children's education and protection.

Education interventions are targeted to the secondary education (grade 9 and 10) whose focus will be on assuring children's continuity in the classes and improving the quality of teaching and learning practices.

Context and Rationale

HRDC in partnership with Save the Children is implementing an integrated project Abasar II, which aims to increase the school regularity of grade 9 and 10 children from poor and marginalized families and to develop their academic skills for success. 

Students' retention, school regularity and learning performance of the students is very low at Jajarkot. There are many reasons of low retention, irregularity and learning performance. It seems that the school governance and teachers' involvement in teaching learning also is not good. Teachers have significant role to student's regularity and learning achievement of the students through creating the effective learning environment. So, the expert meet will be benefited to motivate and create positive vibes to teachers and the clarity on the role will be refreshed for student's school regularity and for effective teaching learning. 

Enabling Teachers seeks to develop teachers’ competencies and ensure they have the enabling environment required for their motivation and success so that children learn from a quality education. One of the key interventions of the project is to support different types of continuous teacher professional development support and enhance their skills of handling of digital learning portal, that include use of various digital devices, learning and teaching apps, platform and using its for pedagogical practices.

Implementing information and communications technology (ICT) in education in Nepal is very important in Nepal. The ICT Masterplan (2013-17) considered use of ICT in education as one of the strategies to achieve the broader goals of education. The School Sector Development Plan (SSDP) 2016-23 aims to use ICT as a significant tool to improve classroom delivery, maximize access to teaching learning materials and enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of educational governance and management. Similarly, digital skill of the teachers is one of the competencies of Teachers’ Competency, 2072.

Unless the teachers are fully comfortable and confident with new approach to teaching using ICT, the initiative will have limited impact on the teaching-learning process. It is also essential to reassure the teachers that Information and Communications Technology-based education only changes their role, rather than minimizing or eliminating their role altogether. 

There is a global shortage of motivated and well-trained teachers who are able to provide the quality teaching and learning required for girls and boys to learn and succeed. The teaching using ICT is proven as a success tool, but the teachers are not using ICT while teaching leaning process. For this, the teacher needs capacity on digital skill to support them delivering pedagogical skill. Digital skills are defined as a range of abilities to use digital devices, communication applications, and networks to access and manage information. 

To achieve the goal of the project, the project aims to capacitate the teaches through the different interventions. To capacitate teachers to facilitate teaching learning through the digital devices to cover the learning crisis, HRDC plans to organize a five days' virtual digital skill training for school teachers. 

Objective of the assignment:

The Service provider/Consultant is responsible for providing sessions to community schools teachers and project staff as: 

  • Organize five days virtual teachers’ training on digital skill linking to deliver pedagogical skills on the below mentioned contents. There will be 90 teachers/ head teachers from 16 working schools of three local levels.  There may be an additional 10-12 project staffs. The training will be of at least 2.5 hours per session/day.
  • Connect teachers in the virtual community of practice for their learning, sharing the challenges and peer/expert lead learning and application of the skill.

The following will be the key contents of the training:

  • Handling digital devices
  • Google tools and drive
  • Managing Virtual Classrooms
  • Online teaching learning / pedagogical process
  • Digital library
  • E-portfolio and assessment
  • Use of virtual learning platform 
  • Safeguarding risks and mitigation strategies while taking online classes

Location and official travel involved

The consultant has to deliver the training through virtual mode for not more than 30 participants/per groups for total 90 participants divided in 3 groups. 

Services the Service provider/ Resource Person /Trainer will provide

The consultant is responsible to the following:

  • Develop a detailed workplan highlighting the key delivery dates, collect feedback and finalization.
  • Develop key contents of the training and finalize in consultation with Save the Children
  • Develop hands-out of the key interventions to share the participants
  • Finalize the list of the teacher and communicate to them in collaboration with HRDC
  • Organize teacher training to the teachers in 2 groups finalized in support from HRDC
  • Prepare training completion report and share to HRDC
  • Connect teachers in the virtual learning platform after completing the training

Experience and skill set required

  • At least Master's in education and having in-depth knowledge pedagogical skill.
  • Two years’ experience of facilitating virtual training to teachers on digital skills.
  • Two years’ experience of designing and developing training contents and manual and facilitating the teacher training
  • Having the practical knowledge to be delivered in the virtual classrooms to the teachers of the remote
  • Demonstrating skills to maintain positive relations with the teachers
  • Having skill and knowledge on the child safeguarding risks and mitigating strategy while conducting online classes

Expected Deliverable 

HRDC expects the following deliverable to be provided:

S.N

Deliverable title

Description

Timeline

1

Meeting with HRDC and Save the Children

Virtual meeting with HRDC and SCI, and discussion on workplan along with key contents, review and discussion if any changes needed

At least 3 times after agreement

2

Finalize the teacher list and groups

The list of the teachers having their name, name of school, contact number and the email address will be collected by HRDC

15 June 2023

3

Finalize the contents and training manual

Discussion with HRDC and SCI and considering the above key contents

19 June 2023

4

Conduction of training and linking to pedagogy skills

Conduction of the training- 5 days with at least 2.5 hours per day. The training is planned to conduct virtually and can be conducted both groups parallel

20-24 June 2023

5

Submission of final task completion report

Covering all the contents, deliverable, learning and recommendation

25 June 2023

Timeline 

The assignment is proposed to be completed in 10 days

Estimated Commencement Date: 19 June 2023

Estimated End Date: 26 June 2023

Out of Scope: N/A

Status updates/reporting

The consultant will report to the Education Coordinator of HRDC in close coordination with Technical Manager- Education of Save the Children.

General Assumptions and Dependencies 

The consultant will consult with SCI technical team during following deliverable 

  • HRDC will support to prepare the list of the teachers.

Budget and payment information

  • The payment will be made after the completion of all the deliverable and submission of reports.
  • The Tax on remuneration, allowances, transportation or if any heading will be deducted from Resource Person / Trainer Pay / remuneration before final settlement as per the prevailing Nepal Government taxation rate and rule

Other important information

The sub-contracting from the consultant for the services is not acceptable.

How to apply for the services

Interested team of professional experienced consultants should submit below mentioned documents 14 June 2023.

Filled out Consultancy Proposal Form (enclosed with this ToR)

  • A complete proposal stating the methodology of implementation, procedure, timeline, content of training and linking digital skill linking to deliver pedagogical skills 
  • CV(s) of the proposed consultant(s) with full date of birth in dd/mm/yyyy format. 
  • For firms: Copies of- Firm registration certificate, VAT registration certificate, and latest Tax clearance certificate. For firms that are tax exempted by the government, a copy of tax exemption certificate should be submitted.
  • For Individuals (Nepali): Copies of citizenship certificate and VAT registration certificate. 
  • An application letter including remuneration requirements (daily rate) and total cost charged by Individual or firm for the stated task and contact information for three work-related referees
  • List three relevant examples of gender norms work. Include link to website when possible.
  • Applications not including all of the above information will not be reviewed. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Note: This Terms of Reference (TOR) for Service provider/ Resource Person/Trainer, is annex part of Resource Person Hiring Contract of Digital Skill Training organized by HRDC .

Please click on the link to download the Consultancy Proposal Form:

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1J5fkHEyX0JD14oxLKNhmuqiFINVDudt8

Proposals should be submitted to the following address via email: 

to: hrdcprocument@gmail.com

CC: keshav.rukum@gmail.com

For more information and queries

HRDC Jajarkot

Tel: +977-089430332/9857852222

The deadline for responses is: 17 June 2023

Overview

Category Development and Project, Expression of Interests, Tender Notice, Bid
Position Type Contract
Experience Please check details below.
Education Please check details below.
Posted Date 08 Jun, 2023
Apply Before 17 Jun, 2023
City Jajarkot