VISIENE XAIYASENSOUK

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMERY

Successful Pedagogical advisor with over 10-year experience in training trainers, teachers and teacher trainees, Curriculum developer, project/program evaluator and manager, researcher, translator/interpreter (Lao to English and vice versa), community developer and country coordinator.

QUALIFICATIONS

-Program team leadership - Project cycle management

-Facilitation - Data collection and analysis

-Program evaluation - Report writing

-Project document translation

EXPERIENCES

Country Coordinator

Pestalozzi Children Foundation from Switzerland (PCF)

Work as representative of PCF in Laos,

Coordinate and monitor the work of Operational Partners,

Provide technical and management (PCM),

Networking with relevant agencies functioning in Laos,

Making liaison with government counterparts,

Writing Quarterly and Annually reports

Interpretation/translation.

Program manager

Oxford Education Consulting Corporation

Staff recruitment

Program planning, implementing, monitoring, evaluating and reporting,

Teacher competency enhancement and improvement of their professional status,

Development of teacher education curriculum and training modules,

Coordinating with Government Counterparts and

Facilitating workshops.

Team Leader

Community development program

CONCERN WORLDWIDE, Lao PDR

Managing the program,

Establishing field office and working procedures,

Recruitment of staff and staff development,

Modification of the program proposal,

Facilitating workshops,

Coordinating with local government staff,

Setting the program strategies and

Planning, budgeting and documenting.

Teacher Trainer

Teacher Education Institution

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF TEACHER EDUCATION

Teacher of Biology

Head of extra-curriculum activities

Soccer player.

Project/Program evaluator

Early Childhood Care and Education Project

AIDS ET ACTION Lao PDR

Desk review

Tool development and testing

Interview and consultation

Data collection and analysis

Report drafting

Project/Program evaluator

Early Childhood Education Project

CHILDFUND, Lao PDR

Desk review

Tool development and testing

Interview and consultation

Data collection and analysis

Report drafting

Workshop for comments and feedback

Final Report

National Consultant

Education sector monitoring and evaluation

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SPORTS, DEPARTMENT OF INSPECTION

Developing simple, realistic tools and mechanism to monitor and follow the results of the programs in the Pre-Primary and Primary levels in the Formal and Non Formal Education Sub-Sectors

Provide training to M&E staff at all levels

Provision of technical support to the M&E network Team and M&E office staff on data base and data analysis.

Translation of project documents and interpretation during training workshops

National Consultant

Study on the strategies and factors inhibiting and promoting the program sustainability

ROOM TO READ, Lao PDR

Review of literature;

Consulting the program teams and designated NGOs to discuss the sustainability issues;

Design and test all the required tools for the research study;

Data collection and analysis through interview and consultation;

Debriefing the program teams;

Report drafting;

Workshop for comments and feedback and

Final report.

National Consultant

Study on the Impact of scholarship provision

PLAN INTERNATIONAL, Lao PDR

Preparatory planning, meetings, instruments development and testing;

Document review;

Data collection/field exercise;

Debriefing to get feedback on the findings,

Workshop to get comment and feedback on finding and

Submission of the Final report.

Freelance consultant

Laos Provincial Scholarship Program

AUSAID, Lao PDR

Assess the overall capacity of the Teacher Training Institutions (TTIs);

Based on TTIs capacity assessment, make a recommendation and justification on whether the scholarships be provided to all TTIs;

Look at fields of study and qualifications of TTIs and assess if we can focus on providing scholarship to train only pre-primary and primary teachers;

Find out how many pre-primary and primary teachers TTIs produced each year;

Evaluate what the management implication will be; and

Assess and make recommendations on other relevant issues.

Final project evaluator

Demand driven approach to education for all

SIDA, Sweden

The specific issues to be addressed in the report:

Meeting the project objectives,

Access to universal enrolment and improve retention in basic education,

Demand Driven Approach for involvement in the basic education process through strengthening of community mobilization and empowerment of women,

Quality of education,

Project management,

Education management and policies

Technical Officer

Unexploded Ordnance prevention

WORLD EDUCATION/CONSORTIUM, Lao PDR

Monitor and evaluate the project site activities,

Support technical staff in workshops, development of teaching and learning materials

Prepare teacher’ handbook on how to present UXO activities in schools.

Identify project expansion to other provinces.

EDUCATION

-Master’s degree of science specializing in curriculum and instruction, (1997-98) Oklahoma State University (OSU), USA.

-Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics, specializing in teaching of English as foreign language (1981-85), Pedagogical University of Vientiane (PUV), (Lao PDR).

-Dongdok Teacher Education Institution, Lao PDR, 1975-1978, Lower secondary teacher, section of natural science (GED).

-Champassak Teacher Training College, Lao PDR, (1971-1975), Primary school teacher program.

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