Educational systems across the region have experienced unprecedented disruptions during the last three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the pandemic has helped us witness many vulnerabilities and weaknesses, especially the unpreparedness of schools and educational institutions for massively shifting from the traditional face to face instruction classrooms to online/virtual teaching practice, it has obviously shown a strong solidarity and resilient response among leaders, teachers, parents and different stakeholders in society in coping with challenges and their negative effects to sustain educational activities, retain quality of teaching and learning, and rebuild remarkable learning experiences for students during and after the pandemic.
With the purpose of updating and introducing innovative practices in this area among institutions in the region in the renewal of education in the post COVID pandemic, SEAMEO RETRAC is going to convene the Educational Forum on “Practices and solutions to sustain the quality of education in the post-COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast Asia” on September 29, 2022. The forum, which is conducted back to back with SEAMEO RETRAC’s 25th Governing Board Meeting, will provide a professional platform for RETRAC Governing Board members who are policymakers, professional educators, educational leaders from SEAMEO Member Countries to share best practices and innovations that have been successfully implemented or currently practiced to enhance educational quality, advance students’ participation and capabilities and mitigate the impacts of the pandemic in education. The forum will also serve as a mutual platform for collaborations in education among educators and educational leaders while practices in sustaining educational quality will be updated and lessons learned from Southeast Asian countries will also be exchanged so that key principles, expectations and requirements can be outlined to shape the development of a “New Normal” for education to prepare for the next phase of educational challenges in the post crisis.
Details about the Forum are as follows.
Theme of the Forum
The theme of the Webinar is “Practices and solutions to sustain the quality of education in the post- COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast Asia”.
The Forum will focus on introducing and discussing policy innovations and best practices that have already been implemented or currently practiced in order to sustain and enhance the quality of education among countries in the Southeast Asian region to mitigate the educational disruptions and fulfill the needs of learning quality in the post-COVID-19 pandemic, including, but not limited to, the following subthemes:
- Current practices and solutions to challenges in education in the post-COVID-19 pandemic;
- Opportunities and challenges faced by schools and institutions in Southeast Asia in the post-COVID-19 era;
- Critical solutions or strategies, best practices and initiatives that help to transform crises into opportunities to promote hybrid delivery of curriculum, speed up educational reforms and build resilient education systems; and,
- Policy changes regarding leadership, curriculum, assessment, pedagogy, and technology to ensure support for educational quality.
Purposes
- To update the Governing Board Members with current practices to confront challenges in leadership, management, teaching and learning worldwide;
- To create an opportunity for the Governing Board Members to share good models and practices in this area as effective responses to critical challenges and their negative effects in the post-COVID-19 pandemic;
- To promote dialogues and collaborations among scholars, ministry-level administrators, and practitioners on the creation and adoption of educational innovations to meet ‘New Normal’ educational challenges; and,
- To create chances for transferring experience and strengthening coordination between education ministries and relevant institutions in Southeast Asian countries to stimulate innovative activities and cooperative actions in education.
Speakers
Speakers of the Forum are RETRAC’s Governing Board Members who are from the Ministries of Education or educational institutions in Southeast Asian countries. A country report which is presented by each Governing Board Member will focus on introducing current practices and/or innovations in sustaining and enhancing the quality of education at his/her country.
Participants
The Forum will be conducted in a blended mode (i.e. combination of face to face and virtual platforms) and open for all participants in Southeast Asian countries who are interested in the aforementioned topics. Participants of the Forum may include:
- RETRAC’s Governing Board Members;
- Educational administrators and researchers;
- Educational staff and governmental officials in different national and international institutions/organizations, and those who are interested in the topics.
Date, Time and Venue
- Date: September 29, 2022
- Time: 13:30 – 17:00
- Venue: Zoom platform
Language used
English will be the only language used for the whole Forum.
Format
The Forum will be conducted with two plenary sessions. Each session will involve the country-report- presentations RETRAC Governing Board Members from the Ministries of Education or educational institutions in the Southeast Asian countries. After each session, there will be followed by discussions and Q&A sessions and moderated by an invited moderator.
Participants are required to register for attendance. After fully attending the Forum and completing the evaluation of the Forum, participants will receive an e–certificate acknowledging their participation.
|
Time |
Content |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | ❖ Introduction of Delegates and Participants
❖ Welcome Remarks Dr. Ho Thanh My Phuong SEAMEO RETRAC Director ❖ Keynote Speech Policies and Solutions to Ensure the Quality of Teaching and Learning at Basic Education in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Southeast Asia Dr. Ethel Agnes P. Valenzuela SEAMEO Secretariat Director, Thailand ❖ Group Photo |
|
COUNTRY REPORT I |
|
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Moderator: Dr. Ho Thanh My Phuong
Director, SEAMEO RETRAC ❖ Brunei Darussalam Beyond Re-Opening Schools: Navigating Education during the Post Covid-19 in Brunei Darussalam Mrs. Wong Yok Ting Special Grade Education Officer, School Leadership Unit, Brunei Darussalam School Leadership & Teacher Academy Ministry of Education, Brunei Darussalam
|
| 14:00 – 15:00 | ❖ Cambodia
How a Cambodia’s Remote School Performs Better and Becomes a Role Model: A Case Study of Pich Chenda High School in Battambang, Cambodia Dr. Dy Samsideth Deputy Director General of Education, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, Cambodia Ms. Heng Rathpidor, Entrepreneur, Cambodia ❖ Lao PDR The Response Plan to Sustain the Quality of Education in the Post-Covid-19 Pandemic in Lao PDR Dr. Lamphoune Luangxay Deputy Director General, Institute for Education Administration Development, Ministry of Education and Sports, Lao PDR ❖ Malaysia Agility in Leadership Training Throughout Pandemic Era Dr. Abd Razak Bin Manaf Senior Deputy Director (Professional Services Cluster), Institut Aminuddin Baki, Ministry of Education, Malaysia |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | Discussion/Q&A |
| 15:20 – 15:35 | Refreshment |
|
COUNTRY REPORT II |
|
| 15:35 – 16:35 | Moderator: Dr. Ethel Agnes Pascua-Valenzuela
Director, SEAMEO Secretariat ❖ Philippines Sustaining Gains Toward Quality Education in the Post-Pandemic and Beyond Mr. John Arnold S. Siena Director IV, National Educators’ Academy of the Philippines, Philippines |
| 15:35 – 16:35 | ❖ Singapore
Forward Looking Schools, Future-Ready Students Mr. Lee Yan Kheng, Director, Professional Development Branch 1, Academy of Singapore Teachers, Ministry of Education, Singapore ❖ Thailand Practices and Solutions to Sustain the Quality of Education in the Post-COVID-19 Pandemic in Southeast Asia: A Case Study of Thailand Dr. Boorapatis Ploysuwan Deputy Secretary – General, Officiate Deputy Director of Teacher Professional Development Institute, Secretariat Office of the Teachers’ Council of Thailand, Thailand ❖ Vietnam Policies and Solutions to Ensure the Quality of Teaching and Learning at Basic Education in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Vietnam Dr. Nguyen Thi Thanh Minh Deputy Director General, International Cooperation Department, Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam, Vietnam |
| 16:35 – 16: 55 | Discussion/ Q&A |
| 16:55 – 17:15 | Closing Ceremony |
An E-Certificate of Participation will only be sent to if you (1) register your participation via our Registration Form before attending the Forum and (2) complete the evaluation and certificate validation form. The link for evaluation and certificate validation form will be published at the end of the Forum and only available for 1(one) hour after the Forum.
For any inquiries regarding the Forum, please kindly contact:
Do Thi Hoai Thu, Ph.D.
Dean, Division of Education
SEAMEO RETRAC
Tel: (84-28) 3824 5618 (Ext: 107)
Email: dththu@vnseameo.org
- Introduction
-
Educational systems across the region have experienced unprecedented disruptions during the last three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the pandemic has helped us witness many vulnerabilities and weaknesses, especially the unpreparedness of schools and educational institutions for massively shifting from the traditional face to face instruction classrooms to online/virtual teaching practice, it has obviously shown a strong solidarity and resilient response among leaders, teachers, parents and different stakeholders in society in coping with challenges and their negative effects to sustain educational activities, retain quality of teaching and learning, and rebuild remarkable learning experiences for students during and after the pandemic.
With the purpose of updating and introducing innovative practices in this area among institutions in the region in the renewal of education in the post COVID pandemic, SEAMEO RETRAC is going to convene the Educational Forum on “Practices and solutions to sustain the quality of education in the post-COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast Asia” on September 29, 2022. The forum, which is conducted back to back with SEAMEO RETRAC’s 25th Governing Board Meeting, will provide a professional platform for RETRAC Governing Board members who are policymakers, professional educators, educational leaders from SEAMEO Member Countries to share best practices and innovations that have been successfully implemented or currently practiced to enhance educational quality, advance students’ participation and capabilities and mitigate the impacts of the pandemic in education. The forum will also serve as a mutual platform for collaborations in education among educators and educational leaders while practices in sustaining educational quality will be updated and lessons learned from Southeast Asian countries will also be exchanged so that key principles, expectations and requirements can be outlined to shape the development of a “New Normal” for education to prepare for the next phase of educational challenges in the post crisis.
Details about the Forum are as follows.
Theme of the Forum
The theme of the Webinar is “Practices and solutions to sustain the quality of education in the post- COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast Asia”.
The Forum will focus on introducing and discussing policy innovations and best practices that have already been implemented or currently practiced in order to sustain and enhance the quality of education among countries in the Southeast Asian region to mitigate the educational disruptions and fulfill the needs of learning quality in the post-COVID-19 pandemic, including, but not limited to, the following subthemes:
- Current practices and solutions to challenges in education in the post-COVID-19 pandemic;
- Opportunities and challenges faced by schools and institutions in Southeast Asia in the post-COVID-19 era;
- Critical solutions or strategies, best practices and initiatives that help to transform crises into opportunities to promote hybrid delivery of curriculum, speed up educational reforms and build resilient education systems; and,
- Policy changes regarding leadership, curriculum, assessment, pedagogy, and technology to ensure support for educational quality.
Purposes
- To update the Governing Board Members with current practices to confront challenges in leadership, management, teaching and learning worldwide;
- To create an opportunity for the Governing Board Members to share good models and practices in this area as effective responses to critical challenges and their negative effects in the post-COVID-19 pandemic;
- To promote dialogues and collaborations among scholars, ministry-level administrators, and practitioners on the creation and adoption of educational innovations to meet ‘New Normal’ educational challenges; and,
- To create chances for transferring experience and strengthening coordination between education ministries and relevant institutions in Southeast Asian countries to stimulate innovative activities and cooperative actions in education.
Speakers
Speakers of the Forum are RETRAC’s Governing Board Members who are from the Ministries of Education or educational institutions in Southeast Asian countries. A country report which is presented by each Governing Board Member will focus on introducing current practices and/or innovations in sustaining and enhancing the quality of education at his/her country.
Participants
The Forum will be conducted in a blended mode (i.e. combination of face to face and virtual platforms) and open for all participants in Southeast Asian countries who are interested in the aforementioned topics. Participants of the Forum may include:
- RETRAC’s Governing Board Members;
- Educational administrators and researchers;
- Educational staff and governmental officials in different national and international institutions/organizations, and those who are interested in the topics.
Date, Time and Venue
- Date: September 29, 2022
- Time: 13:30 – 17:00
- Venue: Zoom platform
Language used
English will be the only language used for the whole Forum.
Format
The Forum will be conducted with two plenary sessions. Each session will involve the country-report- presentations RETRAC Governing Board Members from the Ministries of Education or educational institutions in the Southeast Asian countries. After each session, there will be followed by discussions and Q&A sessions and moderated by an invited moderator.
Participants are required to register for attendance. After fully attending the Forum and completing the evaluation of the Forum, participants will receive an e–certificate acknowledging their participation.
- Agenda
-
Time
Content
13:30 – 14:00 ❖ Introduction of Delegates and Participants ❖ Welcome Remarks
Dr. Ho Thanh My Phuong
SEAMEO RETRAC Director
❖ Keynote Speech
Policies and Solutions to Ensure the Quality of Teaching and Learning at Basic Education in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Southeast Asia
Dr. Ethel Agnes P. Valenzuela
SEAMEO Secretariat Director, Thailand
❖ Group Photo
COUNTRY REPORT I
14:00 – 15:00 Moderator: Dr. Ho Thanh My Phuong Director, SEAMEO RETRAC
❖ Brunei Darussalam
Beyond Re-Opening Schools: Navigating Education during the Post Covid-19 in Brunei Darussalam
Mrs. Wong Yok Ting
Special Grade Education Officer, School Leadership Unit, Brunei Darussalam School Leadership & Teacher Academy
Ministry of Education, Brunei Darussalam
14:00 – 15:00 ❖ Cambodia How a Cambodia’s Remote School Performs Better and Becomes a Role Model: A Case Study of Pich Chenda High School in Battambang, Cambodia
Dr. Dy Samsideth
Deputy Director General of Education, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, Cambodia
Ms. Heng Rathpidor, Entrepreneur, Cambodia
❖ Lao PDR
The Response Plan to Sustain the Quality of Education in the Post-Covid-19 Pandemic in Lao PDR
Dr. Lamphoune Luangxay
Deputy Director General, Institute for Education Administration Development, Ministry of Education and Sports, Lao PDR
❖ Malaysia
Agility in Leadership Training Throughout Pandemic Era
Dr. Abd Razak Bin Manaf
Senior Deputy Director (Professional Services Cluster), Institut Aminuddin Baki, Ministry of Education, Malaysia
15:00 – 15:20 Discussion/Q&A 15:20 – 15:35 Refreshment COUNTRY REPORT II
15:35 – 16:35 Moderator: Dr. Ethel Agnes Pascua-Valenzuela Director, SEAMEO Secretariat
❖ Philippines
Sustaining Gains Toward Quality Education in the Post-Pandemic and Beyond
Mr. John Arnold S. Siena
Director IV, National Educators’ Academy of the Philippines, Philippines
15:35 – 16:35 ❖ Singapore Forward Looking Schools, Future-Ready Students
Mr. Lee Yan Kheng,
Director, Professional Development Branch 1, Academy of Singapore Teachers, Ministry of Education, Singapore
❖ Thailand
Practices and Solutions to Sustain the Quality of Education in the Post-COVID-19 Pandemic in Southeast Asia: A Case Study of Thailand
Dr. Boorapatis Ploysuwan
Deputy Secretary – General, Officiate Deputy Director of Teacher Professional Development Institute, Secretariat Office of the Teachers’ Council of Thailand, Thailand
❖ Vietnam
Policies and Solutions to Ensure the Quality of Teaching and Learning at Basic Education in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Vietnam
Dr. Nguyen Thi Thanh Minh
Deputy Director General, International Cooperation Department, Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam, Vietnam
16:35 – 16: 55 Discussion/ Q&A 16:55 – 17:15 Closing Ceremony - e-Certificate
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An E-Certificate of Participation will only be sent to if you (1) register your participation via our Registration Form before attending the Forum and (2) complete the evaluation and certificate validation form. The link for evaluation and certificate validation form will be published at the end of the Forum and only available for 1(one) hour after the Forum.
- Contact
-
For any inquiries regarding the Forum, please kindly contact:
Do Thi Hoai Thu, Ph.D.
Dean, Division of Education
SEAMEO RETRAC
Tel: (84-28) 3824 5618 (Ext: 107)
Email: dththu@vnseameo.org
