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Group Work 4. 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. Infrastructure.
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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
Infrastructure • Proper school building with child friendly classrooms • Water and sanitation facilities • Safety • More schools within reasonable distance • Early childhood/pre school centers
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
Community engagement • Ownership • cultural and social issues detrimental to girls • Monitoring teacher attendance and behaviours • Contribtions in cash and kind
Curriculum and learning materials • Gender-sensitive curriculum and materials • Teaching methodology linked to engendering students, teachers and parents • Pre-service programme • Transformative learning/teaching
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
Infrastructure • SMC takes responsibilities for protection and maintenance of schools (AFG) • Building boarding schools in hill tracks (under consideration)
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
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
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
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)