National focal person
National focal person for GEQIP I & II in the Ministry of Education's Mother Tongue and English Language Education Development Directorate: planning…
Ministry of Education (Mother Tongue and English Language Education Development Directorate); regional education bureaus; colleges of teacher education; universities
Curriculum development expert; READ TA expert member and trainer
Desk review, field supervision, syllabus revision, scope and sequence, and revision of student books and teacher guides for Ethiopia's Grades 1–8…
Ministry of Education; USAID READ TA project (RTI International)
Trainer
A 96-hour national training programme for secondary school English teachers on teaching reading, speaking, listening, writing, grammar and…
Ministry of Education; Kotebe University of Education
National focal person and task force member
Contributed to the preparation of Ethiopia's five-year education sector plan, from the write-up process to the final document, including capacity…
Ministry of Education; UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)
Coordinator (Senior English Language Development Expert)
Coordinated the Ministry of Education's English Language Improvement Program, managed the English Language Improvement Centers (ELICs) and led…
Ministry of Education, Ethiopia
Module developer (team member)
Took part in developing a Classroom English module for teachers who teach their subjects in English in secondary and preparatory schools.
Ministry of Education, Ethiopia
Lead trainer
Practice-oriented training of trainers in Assosa for middle and secondary school English teachers on mentoring skills, reflective teaching and peer…
Ministry of Education; Benishangul-Gumuz Regional Education Bureau
Trainer
Training for public school teachers on classroom assessment, classroom management, responding to COVID-19 in schools, student discipline and…
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Principal investigator (doctoral researcher)
Quasi-experimental, mixed-methods study showing that teacher educators' mediation improved first-year students' cognitive and metacognitive reading…
Bahir Dar University; Kotebe University of Education
Co-researcher
Questionnaire and interview study of how English teacher educators at six Ethiopian colleges of teacher education use computer-assisted language…
Cluster head
Led a cluster during the administration of the national examination at Mattu University and was recognized with a certificate for exceptional…
Mattu University