Bangladesh: Education: Pre-primary Schools

Why is this intervention?
Pre-primary education is a critical strategic intervention which started in 1997 for promoting the quality of primary schooling especially for children whose parents are both illiterate. It helps children transition from home to formal schooling. The main objective of pre-primary school programme is to prepare underprivileged children for mainstream primary school entry.

In underprivileged families parents may not have the education necessary to teach them foundational literacy, reading, and mathematical skills, nor have the same kind of enthusiasm for the demands and impersonal routines of formal schooling that is common to better-off, educated parents. It provides a basic academic foundation, and the crucial emotional and physical development required for success in primary school. Besides education children with special needs get medical support, change infrastructure for them and necessary assistive devices.
 
How do we ensure teacher's quality?
Preference is given for teachers who have at least ten years of schooling and a senior school certificate. BRAC trains these teachers well in the latest and most effective teaching methodologies in a non-formal, creative manner, encouraging effective development of children's communications, language and social skills, active hands on learning, the use of arts including free-hand drawings and other modes of class-work.

Whats the linkage with Government schools?
BRAC has permission from the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education to establish pre-primary schools on the campuses or catchment areas of government primary schools or registered non-government primary schools. The holistic pre-primary school curriculum nurtures physical, emotional, social and cognitive skills. The core subjects of Bangla, mathematics, English and science, are taught with textbooks published by BRAC. After completing the one year pre-primary course, all graduates are enrolled in the nearest government or registered non- government schools. BRAC staffs track those children up to the completion of primary education.

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