Monitoring and evaluation
Kaachi teacher and his pupils.( Pakistan) © Sindh Literacy and Development Program, Pakistan
When MTB MLE programmes are established within the formal education system, education officials are responsible for evaluating most parts of the programme. But since people from outside the community may not understand the students’ MT, they will depend on community members’ help in conducting the evaluations and in helping to analyze the results.
Community members also help to evaluate the quality of MT reading materials. They observe the materials that students choose to read during“ free reading time” in school and at the end of the school year they identify the reading materials that are well liked and should be re-printed and those that need to be revised or discarded.
School committees meet regularly with teachers to identify problems and mobilize the community to maintain classrooms, toilet facilities, the school grounds and teachers’ residences.
Supportive partnerships
Successful programmes have the full support of people within and outside their language communities. MT speakers create the MT reading materials, teach the classes and ensure that materials and buildings are maintained. When they identify the components of the programme that are going well, communities work together to ensure that those components are maintained and when problems arise, they solve them together.
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