VVOB is very proud to have been selected for the HundrED Global Collection 2024. Each year, the Global Collection highlights 100 of the brightest education innovations from around the world. For the second year in a row, VVOB’s process-oriented child monitoring (POM) was recognised as one of the leading innovations in education.
Developed in Belgium and taken up in Vietnam, process-oriented child monitoring is a formative assessment system used in professional development programmes for early childhood education teachers. While many other child monitoring systems focus on developmental outcomes, process-oriented child monitoring offers a way to assess children’s learning by focusing on their well-being and involvement in daily activities.
Process-oriented child monitoring is a deeply reflective process. Teachers systematically observe and assess all learners' well-being and involvement using a simple paper-based or app-based tool. With this assessment, teachers identify children at risk of not learning, reflect on their own teaching practice, and on what withholds children from learning and meaningful participation.
Currently, VVOB is supporting teachers to use process-oriented child monitoring in language rich learning environments for children from ethnic minorities. We are also experimenting with a process-oriented child monitoring app to simplify and improve the observation as well as data analysis process.
With its approach, process-oriented child monitoring follows the key trends in education innovation as identified by HundrED for the Global Collection 2024:
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EdTech and Artificial Intelligence: School closures during Covid-19 meant that governments turned to EdTech solutions, accelerating the expansion of technology as a means of bridging the learning gap.
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Developing Teacher Agency: Teacher empowerment and ownership of their professional development are critical to innovation uptake.
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Future Skills: Focusing on 21st century skills, ICT, and Preparedness, remain a primary motivation for education innovation.
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Inclusivity: Many innovations focus on gender equality, bullying prevention, student voice and agency, rural education, displaced children, special education and diversity.
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Wellbeing: Taking care of the individual and their community is essential to supporting welcoming and productive learning environments.
Download the HundrED Global Collection report here.
