spent time observing Kindergarten teachers and students before they attended their first inservice teacher training.
How do you supervise classrooms?
The programme team conducts school visits and class observations three times a year. This includes time for teachers to discuss their students’ progress.
Officers from the District Education Office also make annual school visits.
How do you evaluate students’ progress?
Kindergarten and Grade 1 teachers conduct informal reading assessments in Rajbanshi and oral assessments for other subjects.
The programme team assesses students’ reading and writing progress in all three school languages and other academic subjects twice a year, beginning in Grade 2.
Grade 2 student demonstrates her reading ability in the MT. © SIL International, Nepal
What results have you seen?
Rajbanshi parents and community members clearly appreciate having this MLE pilot programme in their language. Parents are happy that the programme helps their children learn from their own culture and also helps them gain knowledge from outside.
Besides academic achievement, parents report that their children love going to school. They talk about school experiences with their families and tell the stories that they learned. They are more independent and polite as well.
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