Our experience through a number of nation-wide researches conducted on Primary Schools and Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centers witnessed the need of action-based intervention to develop necessary awareness, professional and institutional capacity and action programs to empower schools and ECD centers to leverage entire ECD system in the country. There is very little result achieved despite numerous program interventions for promoting ECD system in the country. ECDs are found to be functioning more like schools rather than child development institutions. There is hardly some evidence of proper training of the facilitators on ECD systems management, child and parental counseling, as well as material development. ECD management, monitoring, evaluation and reporting system has been observed to be highly critical everywhere in each category of ECDs – school managed as well as community managed. As a result, transfer of training skills has remained questionable. The facilitators have hardly learnt the minimum concepts including development of child psychology, physical growth, rights and protection issues, and so on. Similarly, the center environment development, maintenance and promotion of child friendliness is observed to be very poor. Use of self-made, no-cost, low-cost materials needs be swiftly advocated across the nation.

In this respect, Edify International, the parent organization of Edify International School (Lab School of Kathmandu University School of Education), intends to take institutional leadership to initiate a series of training and development programs to empower overall ECD development, management, monitoring and evaluation with a vision to make the ECDs more robust in action.

For this, the organization has already designed an action-oriented curriculum of 120 hours on the job learning and development for ECD Administrators and Facilitators (teachers). The program has been tailored to fulfil the requirements of basic understanding of child growth and development, child psychology, establishing effectively customized ECD system standards across the places of implementation, development of ECD infrastructure, materials and implementation of its daily activities. Additionally, the training curriculum focuses on establishing minimum required understanding of the concept of child, parental and support staff counseling. The monitoring, evaluation and reporting system of ECD centers is expected to be additional enlightenment to the respective participants.

Edify International intends to provide management support to Edify International School to implement a series of action-oriented training programs for ECD Facilitators and Administrators in collaboration with Kathmandu University School of Education by receiving necessary financial support from interested national and international institutions with ample interest and contribution on child protection and development related issues in Nepal.

Edify International School has been promoted as a university laboratory school that has its own philosophy in education. The school’s philosophy provides with a mandate to implement a number of programs in partnership and collaboration with the community as well as civil society organizations. As a laboratory school of Kathmandu University School of Education, the school has a vision to contribute in the field of developing capacity and necessary environment for different schools and other institutions supporting for education in the communities. Research and innovation, professional development and institutional development are some of the key thrusts of working insights of Edify Approach to Lab School System.

 

 

Training Contents

SNo Contents MODULE I: ORIENTATION ON ECD/CHILDCARE CENTER SYSTEM (2 days x 10 hrs/day = 20 hrs) 1 Stages of human development 2 Physical and psychological development of a child 3 Development of a child as a social character 4 Four corners of child rights 5 Concept of ECD/CHILDCARE CENTER system 6 Forms of ECD/CHILDCARE CENTER system 7 Relevance of ECD/CHILDCARE CENTER system 8 Some misconceptions about ECD/CHILDCARE CENTER intervention 9 ECD/CHILDCARE CENTER system standards 10 Localizing the system standards 11 Maintaining cost efficiency of ECD/CHILDCARE CENTER system 12 Understanding the child protection code of conduct MODULE II: ESTABLISHING ECD/CHILDCARE CENTER SYSTEM (3 days x 10 hrs/day = 30 hrs) 13 Producing/collecting no-cost, low-cost materials 14 Establishing child learning and development centers (corners of learning) 15 Managing ECD/CHILDCARE CENTER infrastructure for in-house activities 16 Managing ECD/CHILDCARE CENTER infrastructure for out of classroom activities 17 Managing child health and nutrition at ECD/CHILDCARE CENTER 18 Managing sanitation at ECD/CHILDCARE CENTER 19 Managing child protection and security at ECD/CHILDCARE CENTER 20 20. Establishing ECD/CHILDCARE CENTER operations manual MODULE III: COUNSELING & DEVELOPMENT (3 days x 10 hrs/day = 30 hrs) 21 Understanding child learning as a socio-psychological behavior 22 Recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of a child 23 Exploring the root causes of the weaknesses of each child 24 Recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of the parents 25 Exploring the root causes of the weaknesses of each child 26 Recognizing learning deficiencies of a child 27 Recognizing mentoring deficiencies of the parents 28 Developing understanding of child sensitivity among the subordinate staff at ECD/CHILDCARE CENTER 29 Establishing progressive reward system for the child, parents and subordinate staff 30 Sensitivity awareness on counseling-based child protection issues 31 Sensitivity awareness on counseling-based adult protection issues MODULE IV: ECD/CHILDCARE CENTER MONITORING, EVALUATION & REPORTING SYSTEM (4 days x 10 hrs/day = 40 hrs) 32 Establishing child development and learning indicators 33 Measuring child development and learning indicators 34 Establishing parents development and learning indicators 35 Measuring parents development and learning indicators 36 Establishing facilitator development and learning indicators 37 Measuring facilitator development and learning indicators 38 Establishing support staff development and learning indicators 39 Measuring support staff development and learning indicators 40 Establishing center infrastructure and environment development indicators 41 Measuring center infrastructure and environment development indicators 42 Goal setting for the development of child, facilitator, sub-ordinate staff and parents 43 Establishing ECD/CHILDCARE CENTER reporting system 44 Implementing ECD/CHILDCARE CENTER reporting system 45 Performing social audit of the performance of ECD/CHILDCARE CENTER

In consultation with respective stakeholders and through active involvement of a number of experts in this particular field, Edify International will execute overall tasks on behalf of Edify International School.

We are keenly seeking support from interested institutions to join hands to materialize this dream. Detailed modalities on contents, methods, work schedules, expertise involvement, program development and delivery costing mechanism and program relevance should be worked out mutually.

Program Duration: 12 Days (Semi-residential); Program Cost: Rs. 55,200.00 per person; Nature of work: 75% practical; Proficiency required: Good command in formal English language (speaking and writing); Program participation registration: Going on and requires full payment of the fee in advance; Certification: Collaborative – by Kathmandu University School of Education and Edify International.