SEA TEACHER BATCH7th

I.  NATURE OF THEPROGRAM

a.   SEAMEO

The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) is a regional intergovernmental organization established in 1965 among governments of Southeast Asian countries to promote regional cooperation in education, science and culture in the region.

As an organization that has continued to nurture human capacities and explored the peoples’ fullest potential, the SEAMEO maintains its work and aspirations for development with peoples of the region to make lives better in quality and equity in education, preventive health education, culture and tradition, information and communication technology, languages, poverty alleviation and agriculture and natural resources.

The organisation's highest policy-making body is the SEAMEO Council, which comprises the 11 Southeast Asian education ministers. The SEAMEO Secretariat is located in Bangkok, Thailand.

SEAMEO has 24 specialist institutions that undertake training and research programs in various fields of education, science, and culture. Each Regional Centre has a Governing Board composed of senior education officials from each SEAMEO Member Country. The Governing Board reviews the Centres’ operations and budget and sets their policies and programmes.

 

         b. Sea Teacher Project

 

        SEAMEO, having harnessed vast experience in education in Southeast Asia for the past 50 years recognizes that its challenges beyond 2015 will be even more demanding, calling for greater urgency to develop a new regional agenda that will drive SEAMEO to promote excellencein education, science and culture. 

       As part of this initiative, a ministerial meeting of the SEAMEO Council was convened in Lao PDR in September 2014 as part of SEAMEO’s flagship projects, the SEAMEO College. The outcome from the meeting was the distillation of Seven Priority Areas of SEAMEO on Education to be promoted for the next twenty years. 

       The SEA Teacher Project or the “Pre-Service Student Teacher Exchange in Southeast Asia” is a project that aims to provide opportunity for pre-service student teachers from universities in Southeast Asia to have teaching experiences (practicum) in schools in other countries in Southeast Asia.  

       Based on the SEAMEO seven priority areas for the eleven SEAMEO Member countries to work together to improve the quality of education in Southeast Asia, “Revitalizing Teacher Education” is one of the priority areas in building and strengthening capacity of teachers in the region.

The SEA Teacher Project Objectivies:

1.   To enable pre-services tudent teachers to develop their teaching skills and pedagogy.

2.   To encourage the pre-service student teachers  to practice their English skills.

3.   To allow the pre-service student teachers to gain abroad erregional and world wide view.