Dear Angelika and other neighbours

We need to cover three sides of curriculum for the tutorial class children aged 5-10 years.

one- what is the local context (Physical, humanetarian,academic and others)

two- what are the posibilities of their future life?

three- what is the minimum stander determined by the government?

Then we can develop curriculum.

Best regards
min

Dear Min,
Based on the project proposal maybe you can already develop a draft and then ask concrete questions to Sabina, our Local Representative. She will be happy to answer them :)

Since this programme is not sponsored by the government and is not a classical school education but an innovative tutoring programme I don't think that there are any government standards.

It would be great if you would take responsibility for the task by clicking on the above link :) Already that you know the right questions shows that you know a lot about the topic and your support will be very valuable!
Kind regards, Angelika

Dear All:

So good to see development in Yoshinkel! I know it will take time to solve problems but a little step at a time will definitely bring us there!

Best regards,

Junjun

Dear Min,
It would be great if you could make a draft for discussion, what do you think? It would be of great help!
Kind regards, Angelika

Hi!

Here attached daily schedule of activities which I prepared.

With based on these activities , we need to train tutors.

Pls advise if anything to be modified.

regards
Sabina

Schedule of Activitie.doc

Pre-school children how to learn a foreign language?
First, we should develop pre-school children interested in learning foreign languages, and the initial simple life and daily activities exchanges ability to use language. Focusing on the large accumulation of listening experience, the basis of this preliminary development verbal expression, and recitation of the letters, spelling words, memorize the sentence should not be the main contents of learning. At this point, teachers should keep a clear head and enough patience, tolerance children's silence, the children accept the delay copycat acts, not from the beginning of a press or to force their children to "ah", "acknowledged being the word" and "quick to write letters" to avoid damage to the learning initiative , foreign language learning as a grind burden.

Secondly, the pre-school children to learn foreign languages and children's daily lives and play activities should be together. One aspect, the content must be of interest to children, and familiar with children, such as paint, and eating ice cream; The learning process can be fully mobilized to children's vision, hearing and physical activity.

Hello Sabina,
Greetings and congratulations for joining the pioneer villages.

About the subject matter, Issues to do with curriculum development are very sensitive and have to be handled with care. Sabina I am wondering if your country has an official curriculum for preschool children and tutors and whether there is a gap we need to discuss and address here.

Otherwise any thing we propose here have to be in line with the government of Nepal preschool curriculum for tutors

If there is no official curriculum then our proposals will be very timely.

Thanks
Jessica

Hi Everyone,

This is the first chance I've had to look at this aspect of the project. I work fulltime for a Training company in Sydney, so just from my perspective the first step obviously is training the tutors to be trainers themselves. In schools here in NSW we all have a do a program called "peer support" which is basically older students (yr 6 in Primary and Yr 11 &12 in Secondary) taking a group of younger students for a 8 weeks program each year to assist them both assimilating into the new school year and helping them to benefit most from the larger school community. I participated at both ends as a young student and later as a leader of my own group. I have attached some really basic info from the Department of education. The most important aspect I see in effective training is not in the material you teach but in the deliver and relationship between tutor and student. We hire our training staff based on raport, communication skills and empathy becuase we find that those skills once learnt enable you to teach any subject effectively.

I have also some sample Pdf of their program I can email as there are too many to post.

Simone.

Peer Support.doc

Hi,

I would like to help, have doubt though which ages you want to address with the curriculum first. I would suggest to

1) define age groups to individualize curriculum
2) check the governmental requirements (they eventually should fit into the system, shouldn't they?)
3)define topics (like sabrina did in her document - for each age group)
4) structure topics into smaller details - here a great example webpage: http://www.cstone.net/~bcp/BCPIntro2.htm, http://www.coreknowledge.org/CK/resrcs/lessons/Prek.htm

5) define how to help the elder brother/sister to teach/help the child to achieve this skill - trainingmanual could be written by myself if wanted

How do you feel about this?

Dear Nicole,
For the age group question and the model please have a look at the project proposal which can be found under resources of this task (on the right hand side of the screen). Students from 15 to 20 should mentor students from 5 to 10.
Best,
Angelika

Curriculum and Lesson Plan

Here a suggestion on what is required for children to learn in schools. This might not adapt to the proiject at hand, but still might give an overview from where to start to develop a more specific and realistic curriculum and to break it down into more handable parts…

Dear Nicole,
Thanks for your contribution - I saved the long text in the Wiki: the online document we can all work on. You can find the link on the right side. It is a very long scroll down otherwise if you go through the discussion items.
Best, Angelika

Dear Angelika and Nicole, I have just joined as a volunteer and am really excited about getting involved, particularly with regards to the development of a curriculum for the tutors.

I have just begun reading through your correspondence as well as the business plans etc. I do have a couple of questions though, are there any education requirements (Curriculum objectives) in Nepal that we can get hold of that way we can adapt the Curriculum to match what the children will　be learning in schools?

If not,the curriculum on the wiki document provides a good place to start from. Obviously now it needs to be adapted to a Nepalese setting. IS anyone doing this yet?

Thanks

David

Hi Sabina and Angelika,
My names Anu from Singapore and I work as teacher with children wirh special needs.I am also trained in early childhood and in conduct courses for teachers in preschool settings.

Firt and foremost,we need a basic curriculum for all your trainers.What we want to teach,how to teach when to teach are all important questions to ponder over.Another thing is the cultural background of all your students.Is English the main language or a foreign language?These are factors to consider I believe.

I am willing to conduct online training for your trainers.With that we will be able to work out a suitable plan that will be in the best interest of the pupils.

Best Regards,
Anu :-)

Welcome David and Anu :)
Great to have to here as new neighbours!

Yes, indeed, it will be important to establish a curriculum for the volunteer tutors - maybe Sabina has an idea regarding school curricula, or at least it should be possible to get it via the teachers, I imagine.

The first language of the children is Nepali. Sabina, what do you think about Anu's offer to conduct online training? do the tutors speak sufficient English?
Best, Angelika