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Discover ALiVE Academy: What You Need to Know.

 ALiVE ACADEMY (AA) is a capacity-building arm of the Action for Life Skills and Values in East Africa (ALiVE) initiative. AA is designed as a growth space for local experts developing assessments of life skills and values. The ultimate aim of the AA is to produce a critical mass of experts who can equip assessment institutes, education systems and the education community at large, with the capacities needed to nurture and foster these skills and competencies in children and youth across the region and continent.

AA is a space for learning, capacity building, and production of tools and tasks (resources) to be open for use by interested stakeholders.

AA is composed of four main cohorts:

    • Cohort 1: A framing series which include exploring and digging deeper into understanding the formation of different frameworks; the purpose of focusing on skills; matters of assessment of skills as part of daily life and as part of curriculum; approaches to developing and adapting tasks; and considerations of the ethical and educational implications of assessment of life skills and values.
    • Cohort 2: School/classroom based assessments: This cohort takes AA members through the process of development
      or adaptation of assessment tasks and tools for use in the school/classroom. Assessments are developed for both the
      younger (6-12) and older (13 to 17) age groups as requested by the participating jurisdiction include education systems in Uganda,Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar.
    • Cohort 3: Household based assessments: This cohort involves AA members generating additional assessment tasks for the 13 to 17 age group specific to the skills developed in ALiVE Phase 1, namely problem solving,collaboration, self-awareness and respect. AA members are divided by country groups to focus on an assigned skill or skills. The teams would then share their developed tools to test and administrate pilots of all skills in each country to allow for regional use. The development of more tasks for this cohort allows for the tools to be used to assess and score individual adolescents rather than for producing large-scale results for comparison across different categories.
    • Cohort 4: Data analysis/statistical methods: This cohort involves taking participants through the analysis process of data generated from young people responding to the assessment tasks, once tools have been piloted (with data generated from cohort 2 and 3). Members from each jurisdiction participates in conducting analysis of the data gathered from their respective locations.

All interested members of ALiVE Phase 1 technical team from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are invited to participate in the
cohorts of the ALiVE ACADEMY. Enrollment in each cohort is contingent on engagement in previous cohorts. The
AA also invites interested teachers, curriculum development and assessment experts as well as teacher trainers from
the education systems ALiVE is working in. Additionally, AA invites identified and interested members from University and Teacher Training Colleges in each participating jurisdiction as well as members of the RELI/VALI communities.

Given the complexity of conducting training across different countries and at times, different time zones, AA modules across all cohorts will are delivered in a hybrid fashion.While many of the theoretical or framing sessions are done virtually, the more practical and hands on sessions will are delivered on site, face to face (or hybrid) to facilitate participation. This is particularly true for the school/classroom based assessments where task development and validation involve field work activities in classrooms.

 AA cohorts are conducted at different intervals throughout the year starting September 2023 up to December 2025. Cohort 1 is delivered on a regular basis (likely monthly) with different topics covered based on topics of interest or relevance to the participants.
Cohort 2 took place over a period of between 6-12 months depending on spacing of workshops and when the respective systems needed to finalize tools. Cohort 3 took place starting in October 2023 and required a period no less than 3 months to complete; Cohort 3 is repeated in 2024-2025 should more tasks be needed for the repository. Cohort 4 follows cohort 2 and 3 and took place over a period of no less than 3 months.

Participants are expected to be available for all scheduled sessions, and to complete individual and group tasks and activities between sessions. The ALiVE capacity-building is based on collaborative learning and so relies on inputs from all participants. Information about each cohort and its estimated commitment will be available for potential participants prior to their enrolment so that a realistic evaluation of inputs can be made by each individual.

AA courses are provided free of charge for those participants invited to participate in the various cohorts. Participants are also supported with relevant costs associated with travel, accommodation and other logistics necessary when members are meeting for hybrid/face to face workshops or when required to go to the field to develop, test or pilot tools.

Most of the courses in the ALiVE ACADEMY are delivered by Professor Esther Care from the University of Melbourne in the first instance. Increasingly members of the Academy co-facilitate learning sessions drawing on their local experience. In the peer learning sessions, interested members facilitates topics they have researched. Where necessary and relevant, other teachers will be sourced based on area of expertise

AA provides all participants with certificates of completion of the respective cohort they completed. Participants may be awarded certificates for more than one cohort. Certificates, in the first instance, will be awarded by RELI Africa.

 

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