In Manbu, a remote village in Gorkha 24 selected lead teachers from 10 schools in took part in the a mentorship training to lead classroom observation and feedback session in their respective classrooms. The lead teachers were also provided a refresher in Best Teaching Practices.
The sessions were lead by PHASE Trainers Sumati Shakya , Lokendra Giri and Anita Acharya. The team was also accompanied by Ms. Alison Sharvill an experienced teacher from the UK and a long term supporter of PHASE education project. With her more than 20 years of experience in teaching, she supported PHASE team in enhancing the course content with her core skills such as children engagement, storytelling and mathematics teaching to best adapt at Nepali rural context.
"I really enjoy PHASE trainings. I now use best teaching practices in the classroom all the time and I have found it works wonders. I am pleased that I am selected to receive this mentorship training. The best thing I learned in recent sessions is to be able to give feedback in a very constructive and non-resenting way", shares a participant teacher.
PHASE is running a series of intensive teaching training and school development in different villages of Gorkha, an earthquake affected district to revive the hugely affected school sector.
PHASE has been working in 3 remote villages of Northern Gorkha to improve health, education and livelihood opportunities and support these isolated mountaneous communities. Here is the short summary of the education activities accomplished in this quarter.
Manbu
In May, PHASE education team had successfully facilitated a 10-day training event titled "Child Friendly School" for 62 teachers from 10 schools. In this quarter PHASE trainers performed classroom observation and feedback session to all the participant teachers. The constructive feedbacks were well appreciated by the teachers. In the coming quarter a group of aspiring 30 teachers will be provided mentorship training to run school mentorship programme in a peer to peer model.
Similarly, PHASE also plans to create a model school in the village by supporting additional physical infrastructure and follow up trainings.
" I really enjoy the feedbacks provided by PHASE educators, they have appreciated my efforts and added to the room for improvement. I am committed to use child friendly and interactive methodologies in my classes as I have felt that we are facilitators of classroom activities not the lecturers.
-Sher Bahadur Neupane, Teacher
Siddhartha Banasthali Basic School,Shyamchet, Manbu.
PHASE has been working with 10 schools of Manbu to instils child friendly environment in these remote schools.
Kashigaun and Keraunja
Similarly in the villages of Kashigaun and Keraunja several education projects are running as follows.
The PHASE supported 5 computer lab has been expanded to 9 computer lab with the help of community support. The rural children are having computer education right in their villages.
School garden programme has also started in the secondary school of Kashigaun with the installment of plastic green house, seed and technical support by agriculture technicians. With this, children are expected to learn vocation skills regarding improved vegetable farming and spread the knowledge and skills with their parents. The programme is planned to be expanded in Keraunja and Manbu.
PHASE aims to improve holistic school environment and access to education in all of these remote villages in the coming years.
PHASE Nepal has successfully supported 181 out of children in gaining and retaining access to schools in coordination with local schools, district education office and the local government with a series of trainings, social mobilizing and logistic support in Humla. The supported children are the residents of Maila, Melchham and Jair villages of extremely remote and mountaneous district of Humla in Mid Western region of Nepal.
These villages are reachable only on foot by walking at least 3 days from the nearest road access in Bajura District or Mugu District. Humla District itself does not have a road access and the only access to its headquarter Simikot is by mountain flights or at least 5 days of walk from Mugu or Bajura.
When this education project was designed it was estimated that about 120 children would be out of school in PHASE Project villages, Maila, Melchham and Jair. After the actual survey was conducted, 181 dropouts were identified and verified by the local authority revealing a more disadvantageous situation of children in the region.
A summary of project activities adapted to bring these children back to school is presented below.
Logistics Support to the children
Throughout the project period, the children were provided with essential logistic materials such as exercise books, school bags, pencils, pens, erasers and mathematics instrument box in the installment of 6 months. The parents were also communicated accordingly. PHASE Local mobilisers and EDF Anita Acharya monitored the attendance of the children in co-operation with the School Principals.
This proved to be a very effective strategy and all the children to came to school regularly. After getting all the necessary school supplies for their children, the parents felt less burdened and the children felt motivated.
In Humla where everything has to be carried by either mules or porters, everything is of high value. The provide materials were found to be used with good care.
Follow up visits at School and at Homes
PHASE EDF and Local mobilizers regularly followed up with the parents and students at homes and with students and teachers at schools to ensure regular attendance, to motivate children and to motivate parents. Parents were regularly oriented about the importance of education and how useful it is, for the future of their children. These efforts eventually started garnering increased awareness level and commitment from Parents to send children to schools.
Improving School Environment- Training Teachers and improving classrooms
To support this back to school children with better school environment, PHASE provided training and basic material support to the teachers and schools of the project to upgrade elementary classrooms.
Training on Child Friendly Learning Environment
114 teachers of the project villages teachers took part in different sessions of child friendly education training. In these training the teachers learned about the following skills :
This fiscal year 2017/18 PHASE was successful in supporting 43 different mountainous schools with training, classroom upgrading and supporting school retention with the support from several international partners and individual donors.
As a part of PHASE Nepal Teacher Training Programme, 58 Teachers of Manbu recently received a training on Child-Friendly and Interactive Teaching strategies. The 5-day long training was completely activity based and was conducted by PHASE education team who now have more than a decade of experience in practicing best teaching strategies.
During the training, primary and secondary school teachers learned to make and use low cost and no cost teaching materials as well as strategies for effective questioning, critical thinking, and collaborative learning.
" I have taught for more than 20 years but yet I feel I have to learn a lot. The activities I have learned from this training are practical enough to replicate in my classroom", says Thakur Pudasaini, Principal, Sitala Basic School, Manbu
PHASE is working with 10 schools in Manbu village, a remote village in Lower North Gorkha to instill child-friendly environment in the schools.
PHASE's practical teaching curriculum is both liked by the teachers and school supervisors and is often reached by other charities in Nepal seeking training consultancy in their education projects too.
Enhancing Schools with New Technology in the Remote
To supplement its teacher training programme, PHASE has also been supporting basic learning materials and classroom setup materials such as white boards, flooring, furniture , visual charts etc to upgrade the schools in its project areas.
During this course, PHASE has established a first ever computer lab in the only secondary school in the remote village of Keraunja, North Gorkha.
Keraunja lies at a two day walking distance from the nearest road access and is highly deprived in health, education and livelihood opportunites. In addition, the area was hugely affected by the 2015 earthquake. PHASE has been supporting the community with its integrated project to enhance health services, school education and income generation in the people.
The new computer lab which only has now 5 computers from PHASE's support is first of its kind in the village. Although it is not sufficient, it is good start to provide the ethnic gurung children with an opportunity to experience computer technology. Government of Nepal curriculum has computer education as compulsory subject in the schools but the children from remote project areas of PHASE have seen a computer only in the pictures of their books. Everyone in the village is excited about learning computer in the school. This initiative was taken after identifying few computer literate youth teachers in the schools who could lead the class, based on the government curriculum. PHASE decided to buy and support these computers with the funds from its educatio project after receiving numerous requests by the school managment and the new local ward government. The lab is being set up and will be fully operational from the third week of May.
"The new computer lab will definitely make the children from our remote community, digital literate and make them ready for this new age."
-Principal, Kerauja Secondary School, Karaunja
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