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Empowering School Communities for Inclusive Education

This project focuses on enhancing policy, infrastructure, learning environment, community engagement, curriculum, and best practices to promote inclusive education. It addresses issues like teacher recruitment, school management, rigid calendars, and gender sensitivity. By promoting flexible systems, empowering communities, and ensuring quality education, this initiative aims to create a conducive learning environment for all students.

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Empowering School Communities for Inclusive Education

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  1. Group Work 4

  2. Issues • Policy and school management • Teacher recruitment • Teacher Development • Salaries, benefits , incentives • Monitoring • Promotion policy • Rigid school calendar • Reaching the un reached • Addressing the drop out scene

  3. Infrastructure • Proper school building with child friendly classrooms • Water and sanitation facilities • Safety • More schools within reasonable distance • Early childhood/pre school centers

  4. Learning environment • Teacher/student ratio • Resource centers • Learning with dignity proactively promoting girls’ leadership • Joyful teaching learning methods • Flexible school calendar based on local requirement • Adequate contact hours • Discrimination against children from disadvantaged background

  5. Community engagement • Ownership • cultural and social issues detrimental to girls • Monitoring teacher attendance and behaviours • Contribtions in cash and kind

  6. Curriculum and learning materials • Gender-sensitive curriculum and materials • Teaching methodology linked to engendering students, teachers and parents • Pre-service programme • Transformative learning/teaching

  7. Best practices • Policy and school management • Flexible calendar (BNG) • Recruitment (60 per cent female teachers) • Make it possible for children to learn in their own mother tongues (NEP) • Mainstreaming of madrasas • New buildings equipped with ramps for children with special needs • Circular about at least one bench for children with special needs

  8. Infrastructure • SMC takes responsibilities for protection and maintenance of schools (AFG) • Building boarding schools in hill tracks (under consideration)

  9. Learning environment • PEDP2 documents teacher/student ratio should be 1/40 • Learning with dignity • Government circular against corporal punishment • As part of continuing education, provide materials for learning (resource) centres • Provision of free textbooks • Flexible school calendar • Change from double shift to single shift under consideration

  10. Community engagement • Receive and distributes grants from governments to schools • Negotiate with religious/ political leaders to resolve conflicts • Protect school building • Prevent early marriages, dowry etc

  11. Curriculum and materials • Revised curriculum ensuring gender sensitivity mostly done by NGOs • Make learning/teaching transformative so that gender sensitive curriculum helps girls’ positively change

  12. Recommendations • Facilitate civil society-led review and revision of curriculum and materials to be gender-sensitive • Facilitate engendering educational managers through field visits to other countries • Facilitate documentation of best practices (e.g., audio visuals)

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