📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P173978
Region: South asia
The government program comprises of Samagra Shiksha14, multiple state-level initiatives, and support to government-aided schools. About 75 percent of the education budget is being used to support teacher salaries, and about 11 percent of it is being used to fund infrastructure maintenance, school meals, and student entitlements. This limits the funding available for investments in initiatives directed at improving the quality of education. To address this deficiency, the government has envisioned the AP-SEIP as an operation for transforming government schoolsinto vibrant and competitive institutions15. The boundary of the proposed program has been defined to focus on foundational learning, teacher professional development, assessment systems, remedial education, and school leadership development. 20.Result Area 1 (RA-1) –Strengthened Foundational Learning: The proposed operation seeks to improve the quality of foundational learning in government schools by supporting the co-location of Anganwadis on government school premises, with the DoSE taking a lead on the ECE services provided by these centers. Strengthening teaching-learning interactions in the early grades is a priority. Under this result area, the state will invest in a few basic facilities (furniture for age appropriate seating, lights and fans for classrooms, and a smart television to facilitate use of digital content) and Teaching Learning Material (TLM) that directly impact the quality of the learning environment.The procurement/contracting for these crucial inputs and facilities will be managed and supervised directly by the community. It also supports teacher professional development, preparation of teacher guidebooks, and training of BRCCs, CRCCs and school principals on academic management and monitoring. The SCERT will be the nodal institution for development and roll-out of TLM, learning resources, and teacher training. It will act as a technical unit that will support the DIETs with the delivery of professional development support for teachers. Result Area 2 (RA-2) –Improved Quality of Teacher-Student Interactions: The state has introduced curriculum reforms to adopt a new competency-based teaching-learning approach. The proposed operation will focus on the provision of blended teacher professional development opportunities (on-site teacher training, on-site and remote individual coaching, and online repository of training materials) to accompany the curriculum transition, and the studentlearning assessments and teacher subject knowledge assessments16that the state leverages to develop these opportunities. The SCERT and the DIETs are faced with the task of quickly building internal capacity to deliver quality teacher professional development programs. Where required, the
