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. Innovaive approaches to improved literacy. The Aga Khan Foundaions Experience The 3 rd annual naional literacy conference 25 th to 26 th March 2015 Uganda Aga Khan Foundation AKF works in collaboration with partners to develop and

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. Innovaive approaches to improved literacy. – The Aga Khan Foundaion’s Experience The 3rd annual naional literacy conference 25th to 26th March 2015 Uganda

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Aga Khan Foundation

AKF works in collaboration with partners to develop and promote innovative solutions that contribute to improving the quality of life in East Africa.

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Context in Rural Areas in Uganda

High repeiion and dropouts rates in primary
Not fully developed orthography
Quanity and quality of local language reading

materials.

Muliplicity of languages with muliple dialects.
Proiciency in the mother tongue by teachers and

school leaders.

High enrolment and muli grade classes.
No teachers guides for local language materials.

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45.70 40.20 59.19 54.18 19.78 14.01 15.85 17.82

20 40 60 Mean score

Oral literacy Written literacy

Amolatar Dokolo

Source: EAQEL Baseline 1, Aphrc 2009/10

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53.7 48.9 52.4 52.9

Grade 2 2009 mean scores in writen and oral literacy

Context in Rural Areas in Uganda

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5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 Grade 2 Boys Grade 2 Girls Grade 4 Boys Grade 4 Girls Grade 7 Boys Grade 7 Girls

Source: AKF SIP Baseline report 2014

Average scores

Context in Rural Areas in Uganda

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10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Grade 2 Boys Grade 2 Girls Grade 4 Boys Grade 4 Girls Grade 7 Boys Grade 7 Girls

Percentage of children scoring 0

Source: AKF SIP Baseline report 2014

Context in Rural Areas in Uganda

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AKF Education Program

Goal: Children and young people are equipped with the

knowledge, skills, aitudes and values to help them interact efecively with the world and be contribuing members of society:

Increase equitable access to educaion for children in

primary educaion;

Improve learning outcomes for primary school children;

and

Strengthen local educaion systems and insituions that

provide leadership and capacity building in educaion.

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Program Approach

School Improvement (SIP) model, a multi-faceted approach that addresses system strengthening at different levels, including community, school, district and provincial levels.

Local Context Local Context Local Context Learning Experiences

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SIP

Child

Systemaic & Step by Step Instrucional Approach Systemaic & Step by Step Instrucional Approach Parents’ Engagement outside

f school

Parents’ Engagement outside

f school

Equitable & friendly environment Equitable & friendly environment Pedagogical Leadership & Support Pedagogical Leadership & Support Coninuous Mentoring & Support & ECOP Coninuous Mentoring & Support & ECOP Culturally and contextually relevant curriculum Culturally and contextually relevant curriculum

Alignment with

Governments’ Prioriies

Alignment with AKDN
Alignment with Global

Agenda

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Reading to Learn (RtL)

What is it?

An innovative systematic & explicit step by step approach to teach & learn literacy. … that teaches all aspects of literacy, passing from context to words to syllables & letters. … that is child- centered, focusing, also on personal development & social interactions. … that blends all literacy techniques: phonics, look & say, context, language experience,… … that breaks down the complex task of reading into manageable concepts & steps

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RTL in Action

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Reading for Children (RFC)

Reading in School and Home Reading in School and Home

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Local Teaching and Learning materials

Versioning, translaing and prining with the support from the African Storybook project

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Education Community of Practice

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Impact of RtL

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% Treatment (t1-t2) Control (t1-t2)

Oral Literacy

APHRC report (March, 2012)

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Impact of RTL work

Written Literacy

APHRC report (March, 2012)

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% Treatment (t1-t2) Control (t1-t2)

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Going forward

Coninue implemening the integrated SIP strategy in

150 primary schools in West Nile region

Integraing ICT in educaion
Enhancing the capacity of stakeholders to develop

local language teaching and learning materials.

Insituionalizing the tested approaches within the

local educaion systems and TTCs as well as working with the naional government for taking to scale

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Partners

Government of Uganda
Department of Foreign Afairs, Trade and

Development

Aga Khan University
Local Language Boards

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Aga Khan Foundation

Context in Rural Areas in Uganda

materials.

school leaders.

Context in Rural Areas in Uganda

Context in Rural Areas in Uganda

Context in Rural Areas in Uganda

AKF Education Program

Goal: Children and young people are equipped with the

knowledge, skills, aitudes and values to help them interact efecively with the world and be contribuing members of society:

primary educaion;

and

provide leadership and capacity building in educaion.

Program Approach

School Improvement (SIP) model, a multi-faceted approach that addresses system strengthening at different levels, including community, school, district and provincial levels.

SIP

Child

Reading to Learn (RtL)

What is it?

RTL in Action

Reading for Children (RFC)

Local Teaching and Learning materials

Education Community of Practice

Impact of RtL

Oral Literacy

Impact of RTL work

Written Literacy

Going forward

150 primary schools in West Nile region

local language teaching and learning materials.

local educaion systems and TTCs as well as working with the naional government for taking to scale

Partners

Development

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