PESHAWAR, Sep 23 (APP):The Managing Director of the Merged Areas Education Foundation (MAEF), Fareeha Paul, has congratulated the teachers who successfully completed a two-day training programme on School-Based Assessment (SBA), expressing hope that the trained teachers and literacy supervisors will further train other teachers at the local level in their respective districts. Speaking at the concluding ceremony, Fareeha Pal said that the Foundation plans to extend School-Based Assessment training to …
MAEF completes two-day school-based assessment training
PESHAWAR, Sep 23 (APP):The Managing Director of the Merged Areas Education Foundation (MAEF), Fareeha Paul, has congratulated the teachers who successfully completed a two-day training programme on School-Based Assessment (SBA), expressing hope that the trained teachers and literacy supervisors will further train other teachers at the local level in their respective districts.
Speaking at the concluding ceremony, Fareeha Pal said that the Foundation plans to extend School-Based Assessment training to female teachers in the next phase and expand the SBA programme to all districts of the merged areas.
She said it was a matter of satisfaction that the formal training programme on School-Based Assessment had been initiated for the first time in the province, adding that all available resources would be utilised to ensure the success of the programme.
The Managing Director said that, owing to the special efforts of Education Minister Arshad Ayub Khan and Secretary Education Khalid Khan, the process of online assessment in schools had already commenced, which, she said, was expected to produce positive results.
Fareeha Paul said that providing quality education at the doorstep of children, particularly those living in underdeveloped areas of the merged districts, was the foremost priority of the Merged Areas Education Foundation.
She expressed the hope that, following the training, teachers would be better equipped to conduct online assessments of their students.
She emphasised that technology was playing an increasingly important role in education and said the Foundation would provide teachers and students with IT skills while gradually introducing online assessment mechanisms.
She added that the Foundation would continue working to bring its educational standards in line with international standards.
The Managing Director said that resolving the issues faced by teachers and students remained one of the Foundation’s top priorities.
She said efforts were also under way to provide greater support to literacy supervisors, including the establishment of offices at the district level to improve the daily monitoring of schools.
She further said that the Foundation would also benefit from the services and expertise of the Education Monitoring Authority to strengthen the monitoring system.
Regarding teachers’ salaries, Fareeha Paul said that, as a result of the Foundation’s efforts, the salary-related issues of teachers had largely been resolved. She added that the issues faced by employees of the LFA project would also be addressed soon.
Speaking about the Foundation’s community school model, she said the system provided an effective mechanism for immediately initiating educational activities and bringing out-of-school children, both boys and girls, into the education system. Unlike conventional school establishment processes, the community school model does not require lengthy construction and other complex procedures, allowing schools to become operational within a short period.
Fareeha Paul also highlighted the Foundation’s scholarship programme, saying that 20 students from the merged districts were currently being provided free education at leading educational institutions in the province. She said these students were graduates of the Foundation’s community schools and had secured admission on the basis of merit and success in the ETEA examination.
She stressed that education was a fundamental right of every child and said teachers and literacy supervisors carried a major responsibility to provide children in the merged districts with educational opportunities and quality education. She urged them to play their role in improving both the literacy rate and the quality of education in the region.
The Managing Director said the Foundation also planned to launch new programmes to expand existing community schools up to the middle level. Selected community schools would also be developed into modern, state-of-the-art educational institutions.
She further said that children from the merged districts possessed considerable talent and potential. In particular, graduates of the Foundation’s community schools had demonstrated their abilities across the country and were now serving in various fields, including medicine, engineering, education and the civil service.
At the conclusion of the ceremony, certificates were distributed among 27 teachers who successfully completed the two-day School-Based Assessment training programme
