Expected Outcomes:
USAID's All Children Reading project combines innovative teacher training techniques with new Tetun-language educational materials. These teaching techniques and educational materials equip teachers with the skills and tools necessary to effectively teach young children to read. All Children Reading seeks to improve children’s literacy and numeracy outcomes by enhancing access to relevant teaching and learning materials. In addition, All Children Reading supports related government agencies in decision-making and future planning to improve education statistics in Timor-Leste.
USAID’s All Children Reading has three major components:
1) Production of literacy resource packs;
2) Development of innovative visual training aids for teachers to demonstrate ways to utilize new materials to best facilitate children’s learning and reading needs; and
3) Outreach to parents to familiarize them with the importance of continued education of their children and academic nurturing at home.
In 2013, USAID’s All Children Reading has reached the following remarkable milestones:
1) Completion of the first-year training for 31 primary school teachers to improve their teaching methods and skills. Participants were equipped with skills to enhance children’s and young reader’s interest in reading. In addition, the teachers developed curriculums to go back and train more people in their institutions using the knowledge and resources they received in the training.
2) Production of literacy resource kits which include children’s books, flashcards, and motivational pictures, in Tetun, for use in classrooms. The resource kits are distributed to all districts through participants in ACR’s training.
3) Training of teachers in formulating strategies to encourage children’s teamwork and social skills. This training benefited almost 1,000 children in targeted communities.
4) Production of a “teacher’s manual”, which is being used around 30 schools, benefiting over 1,000 children across the country.
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