Sustainable English Language Teacher Development at Scale

Ian Eyres is Senior Lecturer at The Open University, UK and former Head of both the Primary Teaching Programme and Research, Monitoring and Evaluation, English in Action. Tom Power is Senior Lecturer at The Open University, UK and Director, English in Action. Robert McCormick is Emeritus Professor of Education at The Open University, UK and Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor to several DFID-funded projects.

• Introduction: Effecting Change Within and Across a National Education System, Tom Power, Ian Eyres and Robert McCormickPart I: Context 1. The Educational Context of Bangladesh: An Overview, Sonia Burton, Ian Eyres and Robert McCormick2. The Status and Economic Significance of English in Bangladesh: Perceptions and Consequences, Elizabeth J. Erling and Masuda Khatoon3. The Bangladesh Context: Critical Comments, Fauzia ShamimPart II: Teacher Professional Development in Low-To-Middle-Income Countries 4. Approaches to Teacher Professional Development in Low-To-Middle-Income Countries, Tom Power5. The EIA Approach to Teacher Development, Tom Power6. The Role of Mobile Technologies in Transforming Teacher Professional Development (TPD) at Scale in Bangladesh, Clare Woodward, Bikash Chandra Sarkar and Christopher Walsh7. The Organizational Imperative: Sustaining Locally Appropriate Ecologies of Innovation at Scale, David PedderPart III: English Language Teaching 8. Empowering Teachers and Learners through EIA’s Approach to English Language Teaching, Clare Woodward, Malcolm Griffiths and Mike Solly9. Raising Standards of English: Questions of Proficiency, Ian Eyres and Rehnuma Akhter10. English Language Teaching: Critical Comments, Amol PadwadPart IV: Strategic Issues 11. Research, Monitoring and Evaluation (RME): Foundational Cornerstone or Luxury Addition?, Robert McCormick and Rama Mathew12. Ensuring Sustainability: Collective Ownership, from Project Implementation to Institutionalization, Sharmistha Das and Marc van der Stouwe13. Ensuring Value for Money, Claire Hedges, Kirsten Zindel and Bikash Chandra Sarkar14. Strategic Issues: Critical Comments, Ahmed ShamimFinal Reflections: Lessons Learnt, Marc van der Stouwe, Ian Eyres and Robert McCormickGlossaryReferences Index

This book provides, at long last, a working model of innovation that stands to inspire work in low-to-middle-income contexts, which is, in fact, the main characteristic of most countries involved in this kind of endeavour.