Better Schools in Rural Nepal!

Visiting other schools can be a fantastic way for teachers to gain valuable insights into how to do their own vitally important jobs even better.

Teachers in rural Nepal, however, can rarely or ever participate in this kind of professional development activity, because of the time and money involved. Even beyond that, there simply are NOT many (if any) such opportunities available to them.

ETC is delighted to provide a variety of training and development opportunities for rural teachers, including field trips! Back in the winter, our Nepal staff organized and led a group of nineteen pre-primary and primary teachers from Dolakha on a four-day visit to the Kathmandu Valley, where they visited classrooms at four model schools:

• Prabhat Secondary School
• Bal Bikash Secondary School
• Seraph World Pre-School
• Grand Academy Secondary School

While there, they observed how their peers managed their classrooms, encouraged active participation among their students, and used teaching materials in various creative ways. They were able to ask questions and share their experiences with the model school teachers and among themselves.

As a result of this field trip, these rural teachers have gained not only new skills and knowledge, but also motivation and enhanced job satisfaction. Our staff members have observed that the rural teachers have eagerly incorporated what they learned into their own teaching practices. The participants can also share what they have learned with their peers at the rural schools who were not involved in this field trip. 

As always, we at ETC want to thank you, our friends and supporters, for making this important work possible! 

We all know that academics are important, but so is having fun. And what better way to reinforce classroom learning than to make a game out of it? 

Recently, ETC sponsored some terrific extracurricular activities that allowed young students from 23 of our supported schools to take part in several fun competitions: math contests for first through third graders, spelling contests for fourth and fifth graders, and quiz contests for fourth and fifth graders. The competitions were hosted at Shree Balambu Basic School in Lapilang and Shree Mahadevshwori Basic School in Babare.

In addition to the intellectual challenge, these competitions allowed many students a very rare opportunity thus far in their young lives to travel beyond their own villages and interact with students from other schools. 

Congratulations to all the competitors! And thanks as always to YOU, our friends and supporters, for making possible these fun activities and everything ETC does.

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