Creating the Rwandan National Teacher Development Framework

This quick fire talk presents the Rwandan National Teacher Development Framework, a process led by the Rwandan Education Board with technical assistance from UNESCO from early 2016 until late 2017. The Framework works to... [ view full abstract ]

This quick fire talk presents the Rwandan National Teacher Development Framework, a process led by the Rwandan Education Board with technical assistance from UNESCO from early 2016 until late 2017.

The Framework works to define the aims, actors, mechanisms and contexts of teacher development in Rwanda with people from across elements and at different levels of the teacher development system. It is informed by a view of teacher development as socially situated and contextually mediated; ultimately ‘done’ by teachers, shaped by the contexts they operate in.    

The process draws on theory and research related to teacher development, local policy and experience, systems thinking and participatory research tools to:

• Define teacher development purposes, processes and principles;

• Investigate the current situation of teacher development;

• Map an ideal teacher development system;

• Create a typology of change for different elements of the system; and

• Capture and share examples of practice.