17,000 Islands, 1 Goal

17,000 islands, 1 goal

Indonesia turns to online resources to create

Community has taken on a new meaning for several school-based coaches spread across Indonesia. For far too long in developing countries, educators have been forced to rely on one-shot centralized professional development for teachers and those who work with them. A shortage of money, locally trained staff, and access to learning materials has made any kind of ongoing, site-based professional development impossible. To overcome such professional development constraints in Indonesia, last year Education Development Center (EDC) launched a pilot online coaching course to help Indonesian educators learn to become schoolbased coaches so they can then provide school-based coaching and follow-up to teachers — both firsts in Indonesia. Twenty-five participants across six Indonesian provinces were recruited by EDC to serve as schoolbased coaches. To help them

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Authors

Mary Burns

Mary Burns (mburns@edc.org) is senior technology specialist at Education Development Center (EDC). Burns leads EDC’s instructional technology efforts in Indonesia and has created and led professional development around the world.

References

Burns, M. & Dimock, K.V. (2007). Technology as a catalyst for school communities: Beyond boxes and bandwidth. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

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