Presentation of an emblematic activity
Empower children council on role & responsibility using child to child approach.
The empowerment of child council will equip the children with soft skills and hard skills in complement to studying at primary school and lower secondary school. Bando Komar has cooperated with provincial education, youth and sport office (PoEYS) and District Education office (DoE) and district technical monitoring team (DTMT), school director and teacher strengthened the capacity of children council at primary and lower secondary school. Moreover, the children council has played a very important role to enhance teaching and learning quality, leadership and child enrolment at school, and preschool etc.
The Child to Child approach that is powerful approach that Bandos Komar used to strengthening the children council and its function and those children can educate to other children effectively in school as well as in the community. Bandos Komar organizes the training to children council group on Child-to-Child approach (CtC) on (1) Choose a topic or identify the concerned issue in the school and as well in community and also let them understand better about something that they have already experienced (2) Study: make children analyze and Develop a real understanding of problems or issues (3) Discuss: Talk over the solutions (4) Plan action: Decide on the best course of action, plan this and learn the necessary skills and (5) Act/implementation and (6) Evaluate the effects of the action taken and do better next time.
In addition to understanding concept of Chid-to Child Approach, BK provides the training to children council on structure, operation and role and responsibility of each member following the guideline of ministry of education, youth and sport (MoEYS) and structure of children council are divided as chief, first-vice chief and second-vice chief and 8-point person of sectors (1-Discipline; 2-study and library; 3- First Aid and Social work; 4-Admin and Finance; 5-Disssiminaiton, 6-Fine Art Sport and Culture; 7- Health, Hygiene, Environment and life skills and 8-Club.
Following on structure, operation and role and responsibility of each member and understanding concept of child-to-child approach, the children council has worked together to identify issues or topic in school such as: (1) not respect the school discipline, (2) Health and Hygiene (3) school Environment and library usage and management etc. And then children council prepare the action plan for implement and reflection at the end of the year. This activity is very helpful in school management and development.
