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 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)