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Post-Primary Basic And Continuing Education (PACE)

Secondary School Support Teachers’ Training Multipurpose Community Learning Centre

Computer Aided Learning

Students’ mentoring

Promoting Academic Talent

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Major components of PACE

Post-primary Basic Education (PBEn)

Goal: Improve overall quality of secondary education

Continuing Education (CE)

Goal:Establishing a Learning society promoting reading opportunities and easy access to technology

PACE

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Major Components of PACE

MajorMajorComponentsComponents

MajorMajorComponentsComponents

Institutional Capacity Institutional Capacity Development & Learning: Development & Learning:

Holistic Child Holistic Child

Capacity Building: Subject Teachers’Capacity Building: Subject Teachers’Training& School Management: Training& School Management:

High PerformanceHigh Performance

Students’ Students’ MentoringMentoring

Computer AidedComputer AidedLearning (CAL) Learning (CAL)

ChhatraChhatraBandhuBandhu

((Volunteer Tutor) ) Medhabikash Medhabikash

Uddyog Uddyog ((Promoting

Academic Talent)

Gonokendro Gonokendro ((Multipurpose Community

Learning Centre)

Gonokendro Gonokendro ((Multipurpose Community

Learning Centre)

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Objectives: Post-primary Basic Education

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Modalities of Edn ManagementOrientation/Workshop

• Beneficiaries: HT, AHT & SMCs

• Duration: 3 days

• Contact hours: 19.5 hours

• Residential

Education Management and Development

• Beneficiaries: Head Teacher

• Two modular course (5 days each)

• Contact hours:78 hours (39 hours each)

• Residential

• Assignment based

School Activities Plan (SAP)

• Beneficiaries: Head Teacher

• Duration: 3 days

• Contact hours: 19.5 hours

• Residential

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Subject Based Training Subjects areas: English, Mathematics,

Science, Bangla & Computer

Category: classes 6-8 and classes 9-10

Trainees : Teachers of relevant subjects (Math & English: 3 Teachers, Science: 2 Teachers & 1 Teacher from Bangla & Computer from each school

Modality : Two modular Course; 20 days each; followed by 5 days refresher for Math, English & Science

12 days course for Bangla & Computer

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Continuing Education (CE)Objectives:

•Maintain literacy skill and mobilise rural communities by engaging them with libraries, develop financially sustainable learning centre.

•Develop right values and voluntarism among students to bring changes in society.

•Revival of volunteerism and skill development among community people especially youth.

•Reaching out to underprivileged meritorious students and provide financial and skill based support

•Provide rural citizens with access to information to develop their capacity and competency.

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Students’ Mentoring

Objectives:• Increase academic cycle

completion and reduce dropout• increase attendance of students

in school and classes• Develop leadership potentials and

raise involvement in co curricular activities

• Develop a demand for quality education among students

• Increase practice of moral values among students

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Attendance; classroom

participation & performance

Involvement in co-

curricular activities

Support fellow

students as needed

Competent students, advocates for social

change and responsible citizens

Develop new skills;

competence; habit & values

Students Mentorship Cycle

3

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Computer Aided Learning (CAL)

Computer Aided Learning Programme was initiated to make text content easy, interactive, interesting and stimulating adding visualization.

Objectives:

To improve teaching skills in:•making classes more learner centered, joyful and interactive•delivering lessons with conceptual clarity and better understanding

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Medhabikash Uddyog

• Medhabikas provide poor talented students with stipend to continue higher education.

• The stipend is provided at higher secondary and undergraduate level.

Selection criteria:• GPA 5 in SSC without additional

subject; Family income not more than 3000/- & Land size maximum 50 decimals, parent’s profession mostly day laborer.

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Chhatrabandhu (Volunteer Tutor)

Chhatrabandhu programme provides tuition support to the poor students of grades VI to VIII organizing the local educated people to teach voluntarily.

Goal:

To Ensure 100% pass rate at SSC examination of the underprivileged students who admitted or will get admission in class six.

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Objectives

• To encourage and engage the community based educated persons into the voluntary works for the development of the poor students.

• To ensure 100% participation in all examinations

• To ensure regular attendance in school of

underprivileged students

• To assimilate / involve school for the development of the underprivileged students.

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Collaborate and Complement

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Gonokendros

Gonokendro in brief•Opened with the financing of both BRAC and the community•Located at the union level/ secondary school premises•Located in a space donated by the community

Gonokendros are multipurpose learning centers, which create access to a wider range of learning, skill development and cultural activities.

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Gonokendros in brief (cont…)

• Has an average of 400-500 member

• Operates by a part-time librarian (usually a woman)

• Open for 4-6 hours a day and 6 days a week

• Provides reading materials including books, newspapers and magazines. There are 1,000 books and 1-2 dailies.

• Children’s Corner with 150 books and 2 magazines

• Becomes self-financing within 2 years by forming trust

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Services related to students

• Students’ hour• Readers’ forum• Best reader award• Wall magazines• Computer: Children and Students’ Package• Textbook lending• Paper (newspaper, magazines)• Reference books for students and teachers

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Major activities of Gonokendros

Library Library MobileMobilelibrary library

Readers’Readers’Forum Forum

Socio-Socio-CulturalCultural

activities activities Children’sChildren’s

Corner Corner

ICT ICT

SkillSkilldevelopmentdevelopment

trainingtraining

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Services to wider community

• Computer: General package

• Mobile and Micro library

• Multi-media presentation

• Socio-cultural activities

• Youth development training

• Internet facility