International Children’s Day -Take Action!

International Children’s Day is officially celebrated on June 1st each year -however many countries have their own Children’s day at different times of the year to suit their own calendars (see notes below). Having worked with disadvantaged childen in indigenous communities of the Amazon basin,  post conflict communities in Mozambique and Timor Leste, nomadic communities

Unfulfilled Promises..

The previous posts on the recruitment and utilization of Teaching Assistants brings us to highlight the unfulfilled promises that have been made globally to ensure that all children have their right to (quality) education safeguarded. The right to education for minority communities and groups is the theme of the first United Nations Forum on Minority

TEACHING ASSISTANTS – at School

Teaching Assistants have two main roles -working with families to encourage students to get to school and to attend regularly and to support students when they are in school to understand the lesson (by using the mother tongue) to gain confidence in using Vietnamese language and to develop social skills through pair work,small group work and the use of games,singing and dancing.

Teaching Asssitants in Vietnam

Teaching Assistants are one solution to supporting ethnic minority students to access school,improve attendance and achieve. This solution provides the GoV with another way of achieving EFA and MDG.