Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi

Week-long Teacher Training in Ghotki and Shikarpur!
A comprehensive five-day teacher training workshop was held simultaneously for TARL/ Chalo-Parho-Barho (CPB) camps.  95 para teachers/volunteers were trained by ITA-Senior Manager Academics Fida Hussain and Training Coordinators the Learning Recovery of children to mitigate learning losses through the Combined Action for Maximized (CAMAL) methodology- embedded in regular assessments to track learning outcomes.

The Para teachers conducted the baseline survey of the first cohort of 3200 students that have been enrolled in the Learning Recovery Camps.

90 Learning Recovery CAMPS of cohort have been rolled out in January 2023 to address foundational literacy and numeracy with social emotional skills brimming with stories and play based learning for 30,000 in-school children at risk and out-of-school children (drop-outs & never enrolled) ages 6-13 years in the districts Ghotki and Shikarpur. We sincerely hope this will lead to new conceptions and practices for positive learning practices.

ITA in collaboration with Meta, is providing the youth of Gilgit Baltistan with specialized sensitization trainings on online hazards and digital safety measures to meet the unmet digital citizenship needs across the 10 districts of Gilgit Baltistan.

Currently ongoing, the We Think Digital Phase 6 has trained 31742 students, 193 teachers and 90 schools across GB. Under this phase program approach also includes community trainings along with teachers training to increase the diversity of the community group who are informed about the content, impact, and scope of the initiative.

The South-South Programme is an initiative under ‘What Works Hub” that aims to provide a platform for education leaders from the Global South as Fellows of powerful cross-sectoral coalitions to exchange evidence and  best practices for improving foundational learning.
The Pakistani Cohort has set the objective of their coalition as
All children from Pakistan  achieving foundational learning by the end of grade 3.
For this, they have demarcared some prototype territories where the pilot will be launched and the coalition is focusing on 5 clusters/UCs of 1 village each, in 4 provinces;

1. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Sadri Jadid (Swabi);
2. Sindh: Moomal Ji Maari (Ghotki); Mahmoud Panhwar (Shikarpur)flood affected
3. Punjab: Ali Pur Shumali (Muzaffargarh);
4. Balochistan: Killi Yar Muhammad (Khuzdar)

The main startegies on which the coalition will be focused on within each cluster will be;

1. Establish local village councils/cluster for localization;
2. Baselines- Evaluate gaps in foundation learning;
3. Leadership Trainings for Headteachers/Teachers  & village councils;
4. Foundational learning recovery interventions/TARL and others 
5. Demonstrate & advocate for system-based reforms and financing 
6. Local, national, and international learning collaborative.

The coalition is structuring an innovative type of distributive governance through village councils. The village councils are local groups formed to support  ‘All Children Learning Laboratory’ in each of the village clusters across districts/provinces
The key ojectives of these village councils/local gorups is;

1. To develop evidence based FL (Literacy & Numeracy) interventions;
2. To ensure that interventions build vision and capacity within local contexts; and
3. To create sustainable governance arrangements (demand/supply side)
   

   The members of these village councils/local groups will be Influencers, elders, CBOs, youth volunteers headteachers, teachers, reps SMCs/PTSMCs/PTCs, SCs and officials. The structure of the councils as units will be formed by the Fellows present in the government side. The formation of the councils to ensure local ownership, legitimacy, authority and sustainability of the initiative and its targets
   Of course, it will begin through conducting the village baseline assessment to ensure evidence on the gaps on foundation learning

   1. Survey /tools approved by govts. is focused on:
   1. ASER HH & FLN assessment (grade 2  tool)
   2. Household sócio-economic profile

   The current status of the village clusters is;

   1. Village/learning profiles collected from 4 locations 100% HHs
   2. Data Analysis completed of Moomal Ji Maari, Mahmoud Panwar and Ali Pur Shumali- Sadri Jadeed in process; Killi Yar Mohd (TBC)

   Once the basic surveys are delivered, the task of the Fellows will be to develop a training module/toolkit on leadership & FL-Pedagogies for:

   • the local Village Councils, local level action
   • head-teachers and teachers for engagement with department/local officers/District Officers/ local government
   • Nuts and bolts of Foundational Learning and Literacy, routines. regular assessments-for public accountability 
   • Conducting training sessions and implementation