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Michael Garvey
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Education Consultant
, Ministry of Education Ireland and Uganda
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Navan,
Ireland
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Education project leader specializing in teacher education,inspection and evaluation, school development planning, literacy and numeracy development. Extensive experience of working in Irish Ministry of Education and in Uganda and Zambia. Available for long or short term assignments related to project implementation or evaluation. Currently assigned to Uganda Directorate of Education Standards. |
 Contact Michael Garvey
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Area of Expertise: |
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research, Analysis
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Private Sector, Social Enterprise, Corporate Social Responsibility
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Social, Education, Gender, Youth, Child
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Professional Experience: |
Key experience:
• Master of Science Degree in Educational Management;
• Extensive experience of large scale project management in the Education sector;
• Extensive experience of the design and implementation of teacher professional development programmes at both Primary and Post Primary levels and policy development in relation to teacher professional development;
• Extensive experience of supporting school leaders to develop self-help and self-sustaining in-school programmes for teacher professional development;
• Extensive experience of curriculum development, innovation and implementation;
• Extensive experience of education in an African developing country environment;
• Extensive experience of supporting school leaders in relation to school self-evaluation, development planning and the implementation of School Improvement Plans (SIPs);
• Experience with the Teaching Council of Ireland in relation to qualifications for teacher registration and renewal of registration.
Management
Sixteen years experience in senior leadership and management roles with responsibility for large teams of professional teacher educators with Irish Department of Education and Science (DES). Experience includes:
• recruitment, training and motivating of staff;
• capacity building both within the core organizations and among teams of part-time associates;
• responsibility for financial and resource management;
• establishment and monitoring of management systems;
• responsibility for strategic planning to meet the goals set by the DES;
• monthly and annual reporting to DES steering committees;
• building relationships with key stakeholders at national level and cascading to working relationships at local and regional level.
Advocacy
Building in-career development services involved significant public relations and awareness raising:
• promoting the value of these services to schools, teacher representative bodies, school management bodies etc.;
• regular networking, addressing conferences and lobbying influential decision makers within the system;
• building of relationships at national level with key players and partners.
• mediating the contributions of such partners to the system and to schools.
Years of work experience :
Inspection advisor and project leader at the Directorate of Education Standards currently, mentor to staff of a Core Primary Teacher College through 2013. National Director of professional development services to the post primary sector in Ireland for sixteen years. Ten years experience in education in Zambia (1979-1989). Total time in education as classroom teacher, in middle management and National Director of CPD: 40 years.
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Education: |
Ref. No. Institution Degree(s)
1 National Teacher Training College (1968 – 1971)
Irish Department of Education Teacher of Construction Studies
(Primary Degree Equivalent)
2 University of Swansea, Wales (Summer 1978&1979) In-career certificate courses in Pastoral Care
3 Marino Institute of Education Dublin (Sept.-Dec.1990) In-career course in desktop publishing
4 Marino Institute of Education Dublin (Sept.-Dec. 1993) In-career course in Action Research
5 Trinity College Dublin (2000-2002) M.Sc. in Educational Management
6 National University of Ireland, Maynooth (2011-2012) Certificate in Creative Writing. Level 8
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Affiliations and Achievements: |
Present position: I have recently (2010) taken early retirement from the position of National Director of the Second Level Support Service in Ireland. The service had responsibility for teacher professional development at post primary level.
Academic Year 2013: I was employed by UNICEF as a mentor to teacher educators in a Core Primary Teachers’ College (CPTC) in Uganda. My role was to support both pre-service and outreach college tutors and lead the UNICEF sponsored initiative for improvement in the quality of education at primary level in schools within the catchment. The role involved identification, dissemination and promotion of best practice strategies found to be working well in local classrooms.
The role also involved developing support systems for School Management Committees (SMCs) and Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs) in order to strengthen community involvement and enhance support for schools.
Mentoring of school inspectors at local district level to improve the quality of the inspection system and the outcomes for teachers and schools was also part of the role.
Acedemic Year 2014: I am employed by the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) Uganda in the role of Inspection Advisor attached to the Directorate of Education Standards (DES). The role involves the development of improved frameworks for school self-evaluation (SSE), school improvement planning (SIP), leadership of change processes in schools and inspection of schools. The role also includes contributing to the strategic planning processes within the DES organisation.
I have direct responsibility for the coordination of a pilot project funded by Irish Aid to improve outcomes and retention in twenty schools in Moroto and Kotido districts in Karamoja. The project is developing and testing new frameworks for SSE and SIP. The project involves close cooperation with local partners and education stakeholders.
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Available for: |
- Consulting assignments
- Job opportunities
- Internships / Fellowships
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Years of Experience:
More than 20 years |
Highest Qualification:
Masters |
Languages:
English, French |
Nationality:
Ireland
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