Education Ministry seeking resource persons for developing curriculum and teacher training
The Education Ministry is looking for resource persons to offer expertise when developing curriculum and teacher training in areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), STEM education, entrepreneurship, and business communication to strengthen counselling and career guidance in the education sector.
Education Ministry Secretary M N Ranasinghe said the Ministry is currently in the process of compiling a directory of external resource persons and is looking for qualified, experienced, competent, suitable persons and institutions who can offer services to the education sector.
The spheres of work include curriculum development and teacher-related training in priority areas including science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, English, business communication, vocational skills development, ICT and AI and entrepreneurship.
Resource persons are sought to enhance career development and counselling, including aptitude testing, testing career preferences and providing counselling to students.
The Ministry is also looking for resource persons who can offer assistance in education administration including the implementation of the National Education Management Information System at schools, school boards, and zonal, provincial and national levels.
The Ministry Secretary urged professors, lecturers, senior teachers, educators, and school principals, retired education officers, consultants, professionals, entrepreneurs, public officers, officers in the armed forces, and organisations offering professional services to register with the Ministry. Those interested should apply on or before March 20.
Once registered with the Ministry, their services will be obtained on the basis of visits, assignments, contracts, projects, or invitations. Those selected will have to serve as a trainer of trainers/lecturers/ consultants in general education, technical and vocational education.
They are required to deliver their services to school teachers, principals, officers in education administration and academic staff in vocational colleges of education, staff in technical and vocational institutes.