Building Quality Classrooms in 2008
Top-down education gets turned on its head. The classrooms in Ethiopia just got a little louder and a lot more colourful.
A Story of Change
Where classrooms used to be bare, colourful teaching aids and books now cover walls and shelves. Where lecture-style lessons used to be dictated to passive students, children now enthusiastically work on assignments in groups, shooting their hands way up when they discover the answer. School no longer ends when the bell rings either. Though extracurricular school clubs did exist before, they were largely out-of-use due to lack of funding and awareness. imagine1day has helped strengthen student-run clubs putting students on the path to future leadership in society by first orienting them to be leaders in their schools.
Goals
- Enrich the learning of 3,000 children in Hintalo Wejirat district.
- Provide sports materials, including volleyballs, soccer balls, jumping ropes, posts and nets.
- Fill reading corners with math, science, history, English, reference and fiction books.
- Equip schools with Science Kits and provide Science training and manuals to teachers.
- Support creative writing programs with pens, pencils and paper.
- Provide materials for school clubs that help students build leadership and Life Skills.
- Train teachers in student-centered teaching approaches and support them with local materials.