Guyana Education Sector Program Project

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The proposed Project would support the Government’s efforts to address longer-term structural constraints in early childhood level, primary education and education sector management, while also supporting continuity of learning and learning recovery in the short- and medium-term. The Project would achieve its development objective through the implementation of three components: Component 1: Improving Learning Conditions at the Nursery level. This component aims to improve teaching and learning conditions in both schools and homes to increase school readiness. This will be achieved through three subcomponents: teacher training at the Nursery level to improve pedagogy and delivery of the new curriculum, provision of accompanying materials to support learning in class and at home, and caregiver education to support home-based learning. Methods of delivery will be adapted as the health crisis unfolds, and activities can be delivered at schools, in the home, online, or through phone as required. Component 2: Promoting Technology-Assisted Learning at the Primary level. This component aims to increase access to technology at the primary level to supplement teaching and support student learning in foundational skills in mathematics and literacy. This component has two subcomponents: implementation of tablet programs and smart classrooms. The design of the tablet program will be adapted to the current context as needed, by assigning tablets to students to use at home, exclusively or as part of a hybrid distance/in-person model. The software on the tablets will also include offline capability to ensure ability to use in areas with low connectivity. Smart Classrooms will be equipped with smartboards, tablets, and projectors, and can be used to support a hybrid distance/in person model by linking teachers in classrooms to students at home, as well as provide support to in-person learning once physical schooling resumes. Component 3: Strengthening Institutional Capacity and Project Management. The aim of this component is to strengthen the management of the education system and support Project management. The component has two subcomponents. The first supports scaling up OpenEMIS to the national level in the nursery, primary and secondary, to enable the MOE to more efficiently manage education sector data and use information for more effective planning and policymaking, and allow principals to inform decision making at the school level. The second subcomponent would finance project management, monitoring and evaluation, and auditing activities.