Education
CIVIL Society Action Coalition on Education for All (CSACEFA) has commenced the implementation of Early Child Learning Advancement Programme (E-CLAP) in support of primary education in Abia.
Mrs Eunice Egbuna, Coordinator, CSACEFA, Abia and South East region disclosed this on Tuesday in Aba, in an Interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
According to her, the programme is sponsored by Sterling bank, through their Education Support outlet, Sterling One Foundation (SOF) which engaged CSACEFA to implement the programme in Abia.
Egbuna said that the programme which had been designed to last for eight months, would be eight commence at Umuola Central School, Aba between now and end of December.
She said that the programme would focus on the education of children in their first three years in the primary school (Basic 1-3) with emphasis on the use of mother tongue in educating the young ones.
“This is with the belief that mother tongue helps to impact lasting knowledge on the children and help them to learn faster.
“In addition, it focuses on employment of new techniques, well tailored technology, application of non formal education curriculum and innovative resource materials in the teaching and learning of literacy and numeracy.
“The programme also promotes safe space application in the teaching and learning environments, as well as recourse to the rights of the learner,” Egbuna said.
She said that programme would be more beneficial to children in the rural areas and conflict prone environments who always lag behind academically for lack of exposure and concentration.
“It is an obvious fact that children in the rural areas and in conflict prone environments do not measure up academically, for lack of exposure and concentration.
“Because of that, their first three years in the primary school is punctuated by a lot of struggles to adjust to new environment, which often lead to lack of concentration and difficulty in learning.
“This Programme, therefore, aims at injecting the use of technologies such as audio-visual materials, non formal education curriculum and other innovative.
“Also, injection of resource materials to sustain their interest and improve their learning ability in literacy and numeracy,” Egbuna said.
The coordinator said that by the end of the whole exercise, a good number of beneficiaries would have been impacted to the level of being able to show mastery of reading and writing.
“They will all do better in calculations within their scope in basic four to six, and to achieve all these, teachers of the early grade pupils will be trained to adapt to this new trend.
“They will be monitored after the training, to access how well or otherwise they are doing in application of the learning, as the pupils’ learning outcome will also be monitored,” she said.
Egbuna said that Umuola Central School, Aba, had been chosen as the pilot school and that the outcome of the project would determine its extension to other schools in Abia.
She urged parents support their children in learning the new learning technology and the juxtaposing of formal and non formal curriculum in the school.
This, she said would help the children to develop interest in skills of their choice.
NAN reports that an interactive session was also organised for the parents who commended the organisers and sponsors of the programme for the laudable initiative. (NAN)
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June 5, 2024
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