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The Project
Good-quality pre-school, primary and lower secondary education will be made widely available to poor children – particularly girls and those from ethnic minority groups – across Lao Cai Province. Parents will also be encouraged to send their children to these ‘new’ schools.
Our ‘Child-Centred Methodology’ (CCM) approach, based on active learning to engage children, has already helped improve primary school teaching in Sapa district. It will now begin to be integrated into primary schools across the province, and expanded into some pre-schools and lower secondary schools in Sapa.
Project aims
The overall aim is to improve education for girls and minorities in Viet Nam:
- to give boys and girls equal encouragement and educational opportunities
- to improve the quality of teaching by expanding the use of CCM across the province and reinforcing the educational gains already made in Sapa district
- to demonstrate to the government how CCM can be integrated across pre-primary, and lower secondary schools
- to encourage communities to send their children to school at the correct age
- to promote the teaching of Vietnamese as a second language at pre-primary level, to give ethnic minority children a head start and enable them to progress more easily
- support ethnic minority children, particularly girls, in lower secondary education, the level at which they are often withdrawn because of poverty
- found and support Parent Teacher Associations (PTA) and activities to build community-school links and encourage school attendance and enrolment at the appropriate age
- improve education management and monitoring by training and supporting head teachers and education officials
The Gallery
Han Thi Seng, 10, in a lesson, Sapa 2 School, Lao Cai Province. Seng is one of the luckier girls in her community because her parents support her to go to school. We work with partners to ensure that ethnic minority children, particularly girls, in Lao Cai province have equal access to good quality basic education. Credit: Tran Viet Tuan
Young girl in a lesson. Oxfam trains groups of core teachers with Child Centered Methodology (CCM), a teaching method that uses active learning techniques, and these teachers then train others. Oxfam also provides training on teaching Vietnamese as a second language for ethnic minority children, child rights, and creating friendly school environments. Credit: Tran Viet Tuan
Teacher Binh and her pupils in a lesson, Sapa 2 School, Lao Cai Province. Both teachers and pupils have become increasingly active during lessons. ‘The old teaching method is teacher talk, pupils listen. But now both of us talk and listen to each other’ says Binh. Credit: Tran Viet Tuan
Pupils enjoy a maths lesson, Sapa 2 School, Lao Cai Province. Credit: Tran Viet Tuan
Teacher training will be expanded in schools across Lao Cai Province and also be accompanied by some improvement in basic infrastructure. We will also work with parents from local communities to encourage them to send their children to school. Credit: Tran Viet Tuan
