Guidelines of learning activities for improving competencies of out-of-school teachers

Abstract

To help the out-of-school teachers who took part in the project funded by the Equitable Education Fund (EEF) build their competencies, this article intends to provide the outcomes of learning exercises and offer advice. The implementation included two training workshops with participation from 3,161 out-of-school teachers. These workshops included instruction to advance out-of-school teachers’ abilities in psychology and learning management. As a research tool, questionnaires were employed to gather the data. The results revealed that essential content for out-of-school teachers comprises inspiring out-of-school teachers and children; educational psychology for different ages; creating a learning plan; designing a proper learning process; enhancing the facilitation skills; information about laws, regulations, and guidelines for helping children; network building; and networks and professional learning communities (PLC); preparation of teaching materials; and assessment and evaluation, respectively. The activity pattern is a workshop. The overall event results show that those participants reported high satisfaction with different management and training activities.