Workshop Presentation

1. Safe and Enabling Learning
Environment
Homework Support, Basic Literacy & Numeracy and
Children Literacy Centers (including mobile classrooms)

2. Ana Aqra Association’s goal is to respond to the educational, social and cultural
needs of children in the early years of their learning under the auspices of MEHE

3. Alternative and sustainable solutions (Children’s Literacy Center, classroom in a bus)

4. Need for Intervention
40-60% repetition rate (ECRD Statistics 2007-2008)
Dropout prior to completion of grade 9 (ECRD Statistics 2007-2008)
Out of school 400,000 refugee children- ages 3-18 (RACE 2015)
Drop out rates among Syrian children as high as 70% (RACE 2015)

5. Program impact: higher student enrollment rates,
improved students’ performance, and higher
student retention rates
Program Implementation: support teachers with
capacity building and constructive feedback,
classroom materials and leveled books,
assessment based and differentiated instruction.
Program Design: for sustainable results, the
program should also focus on school environment,
parents engagement, and have clear expectations
for all the members concerned.
Develop and Implement Evidence based program
Approach

6. Equipping the Classrooms/ Learning Spaces with needed materials resources

7. Building Teachers capacity- Active learning, classroom management
and assessment based, differentiated instruction

8. - Meet the child where he/she is (prior
knowledge and child readiness)
- Assessment based instruction (purposeful
and flexible teaching)
- Use “The Just Right Book” to practice learned
strategies (leveled literacy through illustrated
stories)
- Set attainable goals with the child to improve
reading level (learning outcomes)
- Plan mini lessons with one teaching point
(teacher model the use of reading strategies
while reading and in real life situation)
- Confer with a child or a group of children
(differentiated teaching)
- Apply independently while teacher is still
available (prompt, reinforce or reteach).
Columbia Teachers College- Balanced Literacy
Approach

9. 1- Circle Time
• Safe Circle: learners meet with their
teacher on the carpet (teaching
happens here)
• Social Contract: Mutual agreement
on class rules and routines (set the
tone of the class)
• Greetings and attendance (social
and math skills)
• Share the schedule of the day (clear
expectations)
• Show and tell (practice speaking
and listening skills by talking about
special objects or moments)
• Learn to play and play to learn
(reinforce phonemic awareness,
vocabulary…)

10. 2- Read Aloud
• Modeled fluent reading by the teacher
• Children enjoy listening to mentor books without
the worry of decoding
• Improved comprehension, vocabulary and
listening skills
• Activate prior knowledge and imagination
• Solve conflicts and address behavioral challenges
• Fun
3- Reading/writing workshop
• Deliberate instructions based on the students
prior knowledge and readiness (assessment
based)
• One teaching point (teaching reading and writing
strategies, critical thinking and solving problems)
• Differentiated instruction (conferencing/guided
groups)
• Independent practice to transfer knowledge to
real life situations and across disciplines and
content area

11. 4- Independent practice or with a partner

12. 5- Conferencing
“the heart of the workshop” can only be done when children know what to do
independently

13. 6- Closure
Strategies that were taught are placed on an Anchor charts supported with
illustration for the beginner/novice readers to reinforce and transfer the use of the
strategy across content area

14. Independent learners who want to learn, feel happy and safe in
schools or any learning space

15. PSS Program

16. Parents Involvement

17. Impact- Beneficiaries Reached 2015
0.00%
50.00%
100.00%
150.00%
200.00%
250.00%
300.00%
Outreach
Activities
Teachers
Trained
Trainers Trained Classes
Conducted (BLN
& HWS)
Children
Enrolled
Parents Engaged Schools in
Reading
Promotion
Program
Success Rates
Target Achieved

18. Governorate Name of Public School
Number of
participants
No. of students
achieving positive
results
% of
Improvement
Beirut Shakeeb Erslen School 230 159 69%
Beirut Sobhi Al Salih Al Mutuwassita Al Rasmiya School 90 63 70%
Beirut Omar Fekhoury School 122 79 65%
Beirut Wata Al Musaytbe School 80 72 90%
Bekaa Taalabeya School 81
Mt. Lebanon Shheem Al Rasmiya School 220 132 60%
Mt. Lebanon Ketermeya School 50
No % Most of them
improved
80%
Mt. Lebanon Al Amm Russiye Al Rasmiya Al taniya School 582 356 61%
Mt. Lebanon Laylaki School 259 202 78%
Mt. Lebanon Al Ghobeiry Al Oula Al Moukhtalata School 70%
Mt. Lebanon Mazraait Al Shouf School 69%
Mt. Lebanon Baasseer Al Rasmiya Schhol 75%
North Al Nour Al Rasmiya School 127 85 67%
North Bourj Al Arab School 296 235 79%
North Wadi Al Jamouss School 354 255 72%
Impact- Homework Support Results 2015

19. Children learn best when they feel safe