Country Director

• Jul 2021 - Present

International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (HETL) is a US based non-profit organization. HETL Country Delegates are educational leaders who represent their countries/regions to the global higher education community. HETL's collective mission is to transform higher education both globally and locally. Country directors’ role in HETL is informal and intellectual. • Collaborated and contributed identifying various educational issues/challenges along with organizing relevant initiatives and promote effective solutions. My recent contribution to this effort, a short essay that got published in HETL frontiers, title: Educational Institutions and Their Commitment to SDG: A Private University Perspective from Global South. In this short commentary I discussed the need for curriculum (re)mapping/planning and thus (re)design teaching-learning practices that specifically contribute to SDG agendas Show less

Senior Project Management Officer

• Jan 2021 - Dec 2022

ERASMUS+ HARMONY is a collaborative project of six European and Asian universities. This is a four-year project based on the Internationalization at Home concept and geared towards kids who lack access to global knowledge and skills. As the senior project management officer some of the key duties I performed: • Extensively reviewed and analyzed curriculum and good practices across the globe to identify the scope of work for further the internationalization strategies for the supporting universities in the project. • As a part of establishing an innovative mechanism for further internationalization, we as a team came up with the idea of establishing a virtual student hub aiming to create space for internationalization activities where students would be able to share their knowledge and practices of sustainability and entrepreneurship with their peers across the globe Show less

Director

• Feb 2019 - Dec 2022

The Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh is responsible for research and training academics and closely works with the senior leadership team (Vice Chancellor and deans) for making various policies, and strategic plans for the University. As the director, I: • Led system analysis to develop multi-level models for strategic teaching practices at ULAB, resulting in the creation of a policy brief for strategic development. • Collaborated with faculty and administrators to design and develop educational programs and courses that meet specific learner needs while aligning with institutional goals and standards. • Trained academics on how to handle students' use of online tools while offering original responses when tested. During the pandemic, academics sought CETL's help to enable students to use online content and create original responses while writing assignments. Show less

Associate Professor

• Feb 2019 - Dec 2022

Job Responsibilities: • Undertake teaching, facilitation, examination and coordination of undergraduate, honors, and/or postgraduate coursework students in General Education Department. • Contribute to the curriculum by supporting the development of programs offered in the School, including course design, preparation of teaching materials and assessment. • Coordinate facilitators and provide tutorial assistance if necessary. Provide high quality service to students, including academic consultation and advice • Undertake scholarship of teaching, including dissemination of teaching innovation through workshops, case studies, publication, etc. • Maintain and improve the quality of courses as measured through evaluation instruments to meet industry and educational standards. Show less

Consultant-Curriculum: planning and design

• Jul 2021 - Dec 2021

BRAC is an international development organization based in Bangladesh, also renowned as the largest NGO (in terms of the number of employees) in the world. BRAC Education Programme (BEP) works to make Education for All (EFA) in Bangladesh. Currently BRAC education program runs 13,800 BRAC pre-primary, 22,791 primary schools. At my roles as the consultant I: • Designed some interim teaching-learning strategies (using work sheets and a specialized learning app for example) and materials for the children to use at home. Such initiative helped BRAC to sustain their teaching-learning for the disadvantaged children at home Show less

Tutor

• Jul 2017 - Sep 2018

Course Tutor (Casual Academic position)

• Jan 2017 - Dec 2017

I taught an undergraduate education major course called “Digital Technologies in Contemporary Classrooms” (DTCC) that focuses on the use of technology for teaching and learning for Pre-Service Teachers (PSTs). Since 2011 the course received dissatisfactory review by the students and hence was in order for review. Two coordinators and 5 tutors (myself is one of them) were engaged to improvise the course curriculum and teaching-learning practices through a flipped classroom model. Reviews were much positive compared to the earlier semesters along with findings for further improvement. At the end of the semester we published our findings as a journal article. The title of the paper is, “Enacting Smart Pedagogy in Higher Education Contexts: Sense making through Collaborative Biography” and it could be found here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10758-021-09495-5 Show less

Senior Lecturer and Coordinator-Academic Affairs

• Jul 2014 - Dec 2014

Teaching Assitant

• Jul 2012 - Oct 2014

Taught "International Education" as a teaching assistant.

Project Development coordinator-Global Horizon

• Mar 2012 - Mar 2014

Global Horizon was specially designed by the Centre for International Education, UMass to collaborate with the local schools to support them in their teachers’ professional development. As the project coordinator I, • Collaborated with community school teachers to assess their professional development needs, for example, how to make schools more inclusive or create better access for all sections of children and further offer various pieces of training as per need. Organized various professional development workshops exploiting the university's expertise.• Reported their feedback as a details research report in relation to how such PD sessions were impacting teachers’ day-to-day teaching. Show less

Senior Research Associate

• Nov 2011 - Mar 2012

Researching various issues related with school, children, leadership, school improvement and effectiveness. Researching various issues related with school, children, leadership, school improvement and effectiveness.

Senior Program Officer

• Apr 2009 - Sep 2010

Save the Children International at that time Save the Children USA had an informal primary education program called SHIKHON (English meaning Learning) which had roughly five thousand schools. These schools were run by local Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) supervised, monitored and supported by Save the Children USA. As the Senior Program Officer I, • Conducted various need assessment and learning assessment studies both qualitative and quantitative to identify avenues for further improvement. For example, I conducted a number of learning assessment surveys to identify competencies where students needed more support. Learning materials such as teachers guide were prepared on the basis of the findings. • Build and maintained relationships with key stakeholders, including funders, partners, and community leaders through solving various technical and project relent resource relevant issues. Regularly collaborated with them through sharing knowledge from various end that promises to improve the outcome of the project. • Lead, supervised, and trained program staff, providing guidance, mentorship, and performance feedback. Show less

Young Professional and Junior Research associate

• Jun 2007 - Apr 2009

I worked to develop and implement an efficient Teacher Education Program for Secondary School teachers I trained teacher educators who carried out training of Secondary School teachers I developed research design to evaluate the Teacher Education Program I provided technical assistance to develop a curriculum for multimedia based learning materials. I worked to develop learning materials for secondary science students. I worked as a training team member for government officials for preparing useful materials. I worked for reviewing different level of curriculum. I worked as junior research officer to conduct a year long study for the quality education for the ultra poor children. Show less

Teacher-intern

• Jan 2004 - May 2004

Professional Training Certificate Course on Effective Teaching jointly organized by High land University of Canada and Institute of Education and Research (IER) University of Dhaka. Training on Community Mobilization: It was a five day training held in Sylhet. The training covered some of the vital strategies and methods what would help to deal with the community people. Training on Facilitation: ( International trainer) The Three day training was conducted by Astrid, a South African Professor which includes different techniques and styles of facilitation. It was an international training. Strengthening Skills related to Child Friendliness: A Venture for Promoting Child Friendly Researcher jointly organized by inner force and BU-IED where the facilitator was Farida Akhtar Chief Executive INNER Force, Dhaka. Action Research: Principles, Practice & Methods Application organized by BU-IED from July 31 and September 22-24, 2008, which was facilitated by Dr. Mary Monica Gomes, Senior Education Faculty BU-IED. Qualitative research methodology and techniques- organized by Show less