1. Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization

2. Reaching the Unreached Collaborative Projects
Project 1: Transition support for learners with disabilities (Malaysia)
Project 3: Conference to promote awareness of education for women and girls (Malaysia)
Project 5: Preschool Programme for All (Brunei Darussalam)
Project 6: Multigrade teaching (Lao PDR)
Project 7: Development of CLCs (Thailand)
Project 9: Project on HIV and AIDS (Thailand)

3. Reaching the Unreached Collaborative Projects
Project 2: Tracking system for students at risk of dropping out (Philippines)
Project 4: Tracking mechanism for unreached populations (Vietnam)
Project 8: Inter-country schooling (Indonesia)
Project 10: education in emergencies and disaster preparedness (Indonesia & Philippines)

4. Phase 2 THE USE OF THE MOTHER TONGUE AS BRIDGE LANGUAGE
OF INSTRUCTION IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTRIES: POLICY, STRATEGIES AND ADVOCACY
Phase 2

5. Enhancing awareness and building the capacity of SEAMEO in establishing mother tongue-based MLE programs in Southeast Asia
(2010)

6. Goal
To assist the SEAMEO Member Countries in establishing mother tongue-based MLE programs effectively by providing opportunity for further knowledge sharing, skills training and exposure to actual program implementation in Southeast Asia and beyond.

7. Objectives
To enhance knowledge and skills of officials and representatives from Ministries/Department of Education in planning, advocating and setting up mother tongue-based MLE programs based on existing policies and context of their respective countries
To train trainers from SEAMEO Centres on the principles and methods of developing and using curricula and teaching-learning materials for non-dominant languages
To develop a set of generic technical guidelines on the principles and methods of developing and using curricula and teaching-learning materials for non-dominant languages
To provide exposure and hands-on activities on actual implementation of effective and sustainable mother tongue-based MLE programs to officials and representatives from Ministries/Department of Education and SEAMEO Centres
To produce advocacy materials on mother tongue-based MLE programs that highlight experiences and case studies in Southeast Asia
To advocate project activities and project gains at SEAMEO meetings, network and inter-organization working group meetings

8. SEAMEO MLE Team SEAMEO Regional Centres Ministries of Education
Teacher
Education
Institutions
Partners

9. Activities Intensive Regional Study National training training Tour
A & B B
A & B B
Regional
training
Workshop
6-8 July 2010
West Java
Indonesia
(SEAMEO QITEP
In Language)
Intensive
training
for trainers/
MLE team
23 Aug-3 Sep 2010
Manila
Philippines
(SEAMEO
INNOTECH)
Study
Tour
20-25 Sep 2010
(SEAMEO SPAFA)
National
Training
Workshops
Oct & Nov 2010
Philippines
Thailand
Malaysia/Indonesia
Participants:
Group A – high-level education officials
Group B – experts

10. www.seameo.org/2010PressAward Hard news and feature articles
Reporting and documentation of new and bright ideas and practices that improve education
Professional journalists, student journalists, and education communicators
Published and unpublished articles
Last day of submission of entries: 1 December 2010

11. Early Childhood Care and Education in Southeast Asia
2010 SEAMEO Jasper Award
Early Childhood Care and Education in Southeast Asia
Recognizing exemplary research in Southeast Asia
Last day of submission of entries: 30 November 2010

12. SEAMEO Meetings
SEAMEO Centre Directors Meeting July 2010, Bangkok, Thailand
SEAMEO High Officials Meeting November 2010, Bangkok, Thailand
SEAMEO Council Conference Jan 2011, Brunei Darussalam