Languages

A Speaking doll

Students are struggling in Reading, writing and arithmetic (3Rs)

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School culture language policy

Fostering school language culture policy to address students linguistic needs

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Shadow Theatre

The Shadow Theater will be organized with the aim of developing children's communication skills. Shadow Theatre with using the puppet performance adds another dimension of curiosity to story telling and imaginative play. Playing with puppets children will learn new words and develop their speaking as well as listening skills.

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ujifunzaji wa masomo nje ya darasa (michezo)

Wanafunzi kutokuwa makini darasani kwa kuwaza michezo. Wanafunzi wanaenda kujifunza huku wakiwa wanacheza michezo wanaocheza kila siku

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Digital Resources to Motivate Learners in Literacy

Instead of learners using digital devices to play games or watch videos, they can use digital devices to practice reading and complete assignments. This way they will be able to use the devices more effectively for learning.

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Critical Thinking Book

Critical Thinking

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improving student's learning through Extra-curricular activities

by conducting extra- curricular activities like life skills training improve the student's ability to have positive interaction with others and share their ideas and by doing creative activities motivate students to have take part in different schools activities help students to enhance their confidence, moreover working with families like providing awareness on child protection and importance of education, create a supportive situation for students to improve their abilities and decrease student's absentees.

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The Land of Skills is based on practical training, modeling, and painting.

In this project, children must model, illustrate, or draw whatever subject they are learning. This project is completed in one week, in addition to "High Scope" activities, which are activities in six areas: mathematics, Dari, science, health, nutrition, and creativity.

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T- Learning improve 3Rs

Teaching numeracy and literacy to pre primary pupils needs creativity and improvement of learning environment (class). Therefore, By using T - Learning Model, children will be able to learn numbers, sound and names of letters as well words will be easier. Children will be given opportunity in a competitive way and funny to identify numbers and letters and allowed to insert in T learning tree.

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A beautiful Learning Space for Kids

Struggling with mastering essential reading, writing and arithmetic (3Rs) skills

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Adventure Club

The Adventure Club aims to enrich the vocabulary and communication skills of 5-6 year-old children through various games and playful activities. The club will be organized by considering the conditions for the personal development of children, ensuring the speech development of the child through fairy tales, encyclopedias, and filmstrips. Children will learn about the environment, animals, insects, rocks, herbs and plants. The lessons and events of the club will be tutored by educators, and involvement of parents is essential, especially fathers in delivering some activities for children.

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Special Classroom.

Creating confidence to students in using English Language fluently.

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Speech therapy lab for children aged 5-6.

A professional expert, speech therapist will train our teachers on basic logopedic methods. We have already one session where an expert showed us several exercises how using fine motor children can improve their speech. Further teachers could apply this with several children and it was amazing to see how it affected children. We would like to have some more sessions on these kinds of logopedic methods and apply them in practice. Also, for applying some of them we need logopedic equipment. So our team decided to establish logopedic laboratory as well.

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Start with a book

Engaging children in reading experiences presents infinite opportunities for developing language and emergent literacy skills. "Start with a book" aims to help children to get familiar with a book, recognize letters and sounds that will be initial skill for school-preparedness. During the reading process with children the opportunities provided for interaction by educators to increase children’s understanding of the book. After each reading activity the educators will resume how the characters, events, and messages within the story appeal to children, and ask them to retell the story.

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Conducting remedial class on writing skill

First, we want teacher to hold a remedial class for students after school and give them worksheets to exercise at home once a week. then we hold a "teacher listens to the student" program so that students can share their problems with their teachers without hesitation.

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English Village

English village is the students learning centered which will provide room / chance for student to speak and write different issue or activities he/ she will encounters. The village will made up with three simple house (house made up with timber and tins), two gardens (vegetable garden and sitting garden) and small shop. Inside of two house will have short stories, letters pictures and drawings, etc Sitting garden will have seats for conversations (debate, dialogue) and TV & Radio for watching and listening different stories ( from student themselves or other people) .

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Play-based Learning Center

To address the problem in developing the children's speech, our team implements Play-based learning center to improve communication skills of children. According to national standard, it is necessary to create favorable conditions for the overall development of the health and safety of the child in the game developing environment and in the process of playing. In the center children's communication skills will be improved through performancing, role-playing games, additional folk and intellectual games, as well as the ability to follow the rules of daily games, lessons and exercises.

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Talking walls

The talking walls are made up of literacy materials and artwork made by students and teachers. These materials and artwork contains new vocabulary that students can then engage with by reading out loud as they walk around the school.

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE TREE

The students use English language tree as a reminder of their progress such away every tree branch has a meaning in learning the language (first branch means Nouns and pronouns). The English language tree comprises seven branches which carry linguistic skills.

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Children Development Center

The Center aims to involve parents in reading books with their children and participating in the performance of fairy tale characters. After having read the books with parents, children will be able to compare different situations, sharing ideas about the plot of picture books, create own stories of illustrations. Every week parents are invited participate in master classes with children and be a guest-reader during the reading hours. Parents will be trained on reading techniques by the AKF's Reading for Children project facilitators and selection of children age-appropriate book.

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SPEAK-UP SPOT

LEARNERS ARE FACED WITH DIFFERENT CHALLENGES WHILE AT HOME. THE SPEAK-UP SPOT ENABLES THEM TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES THROUGH WRITING, DRAWING, USE OF EMOJIS AND PICTURES.

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Learning tree

The learning tree is based on education and its connection to the daily lives of students. If the students know how to apply what they learn to their own lives, they will undoubtedly become more responsible and curious.

Learning Wheel

The Learning Wheel enables students to solve challenges with confidence, receiving advice and feedback from others while learning. The Learning Wheel is a puzzle game in which a student will be required to turn a wheel containing words to find the correct synonyms and create meaningful sentences by arranging randomly-placed words on the wheel.

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Learning Through Competition

Through competitive activities like games, storytelling, essay writing, math challenges, and modeling, lessons become interactive and engaging. Unlike before, when only a few students participated, now all students are involved in group and individual competitions inside and outside the classroom. This interactive, hands-on approach fosters curiosity, motivation, and creativity. Students put in more effort, leading to higher engagement, reduced absenteeism, and stronger peer collaboration. Healthy competition enhances learning while promoting innovation and teamwork.

Shifting from traditional classroom set up to dynamic learning space.

It aims at supporting students self worth and preparing them for the future. It entails converting our traditional classroom set-up into a dynamic learning space that caters for all learners emotional needs while igniting taking responsibility as a key competency

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Active Learning

After completion of baseline assessment of 2024, we noticed that students of Grade 4th of Ishkashem's boy high school have serious difficulties in reading and writing simple words and recognition of words and sentences. Teaching in this corner of the world (Northeast of Afghanistan) is usually conducted by teacher centered methods. students are not mostly involved in the process of teaching. The design team of this school decided to implement active learning method in this class to give equal opportunities to all types of students to actively participate in teaching/learning process.

Collaborative learning

Student-Centered Learning Through Participation and Collaboration Traditional teaching often relies on theory, making lessons dull and ineffective. To address this, we use a student-centered approach for grade 4, where teachers guide rather than instruct. Using Human-Centered Design (HCD), we implement group activities, pair work, role-playing, and projects. A key example is the school garden project, where students observe plant growth, document findings, and share insights. This method boosts engagement, attendance, and teamwork, making learning interactive, meaningful, and enjoyable.

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From Initiative to Action

The solution to address the learning challenges of grade four students at Panjab Centre Girls High School was to move from initiative to action. This solution focused on tackling the specific learning issues mentioned above and also addressed teacher-related challenges. It implemented a pedagogical practice where students were at the core of the learning process, with teachers serving as guides to help students with their assignments. In collaboration with their teachers, students received low-cost and no-cost materials from the school head, delivered by AKF, which they used to create learning

Developing student's talent and self-confidence

It is a solution in which prompts all students to actively take part in learning process. with practices such as conducting experiments in groups, group storytelling, daily question cards, scientific competitions, tearing and combining objects, cut and paste sentences, playing for fun, torn words, mental math, forming sets, taking math at home, paying attention to surrounding, and the campaign to protect a healthy environment. This solution has been used individually and in groups in improving the educational level of students in accordance with the seventh-grade curriculum.

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Learning through collaboration

Collaborative learning enhances learning and social interaction by dividing students into small groups to work on projects with defined tasks. This fosters responsibility, communication, and critical thinking. Students discuss ideas, teach concepts to one another, and provide feedback, leading to a deeper understanding. Peer teaching and evaluation help them learn from each other’s experiences. These methods make learning more engaging and effective while developing essential skills.

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To introduce language culture society to promote students language proficiency through policy

Policy design Zero tolerance policy for teachers and students also motivate stakeholders to take their commitment for the success.working with struggling students and the specific areas with to enhance their abilities working close coordination with parents grandparents to strengthening bounding for the language development

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Doing is Learning

In this innovation, the teacher acts as a facilitator, introducing the educational tasks and encouraging students to carry them out independently. The teacher observes all students during the execution of the activities and provides support, which ensures that every student is engaged and actively involved in the teaching process. This hands-on approach leads to better learning outcomes for the students.

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Let's learn from each other

In this Innovation, students create colorful charts with key vocabulary written in color and display them in the classroom. They use available resources in the school or surrounding environment to construct concepts such as geometric shapes and some measuring tools like rulers. The teacher guides the students to practically learn scientific concepts, such as the five senses, plant growth, heat, and machines, using available resources. Additionally, they collect discarded materials from the environment, such as cardboard and sticks, and use them as resources in the classroom.

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Project-based learning

This Innovation focuses on fostering responsibility through small projects across various subjects, enabling students to engage in lessons and learn practically and independently. In this approach, teachers act as facilitators and supporters, designing small projects tailored to the students' levels and monitoring their successful implementation comprehensively. Students are at the center of the activities, with different stages of the lesson incorporated into the project. This encourages students to feel more responsible, thereby accelerating the learning process

Education through play

Education through play is a solution in which students work together and learn from each other through group work, such as role-playing games, positive competitions between groups, science and math experiments. teachers involve their students in class activities, taking into account their abilities, support them well in teaching, and relate the lessons to their daily lives so that the students' minds become active, and their education and practical skills grow and develop through healthy competition.

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Sound recognition in ICT instruction

A word wheel that incorporates pictures, words and sounds. A learner spins the wheel, clicks on a word and a sound with the correct pronunciation of the word plays. This can be done using digital devices or locally available materials.

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Working booklet

working booklet is like a book which will help student to improve their language skills ( speaking, writing, reading and listening) through giving them work to do especially critical question which may requires learners to answer in their working booklet and sending their teacher for marking through reading what they have written which help them to get quick feedback and correction in their reading, speaking and writing. working booklet intends to solve English language problem facing form two students in all language skills

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Geras - outdoor learning

Geras is an outdoor learning concept, learning outside the classroom, intended for students to participate in building the curriculum. The concept works across the curriculum with active learning, learning by doing, developing creativity/problem solving, resilience, critical thinking and mutual help between peers. Geras aims to provide students with increasingly holistic approaches, to be a facilitator of the development of creativity, exploring imagination, seeking happy learning, so that students are more predisposed and interested in learning.

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Learning method using environmental and recycled materials

The environmental and recycled materials learning method focuses on using materials found in the environment and recycled materials as teaching tools. This method helps students strengthen their skills and knowledge through hands-on and creative experiences. The main goals of this method include increasing creativity, reducing educational costs, promoting a culture of recycling and environmental protection, and strengthening critical thinking and problem solving. Using simple, handmade materials, such as plastic bottles, wastepaper, cardboard, and disposable items.

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Dynamic Themed Digital Library

Libraries are mostly used as detention centers and detested by many learners in many modern schools. This practice transforms the library into a center of interest for the learners by the learners by asking learners to participate in theme selection via secret ballot and the most popular themes are allocated time frames (months) during which design materials on the current theme will be on display in library while learners are expected to read on and make summaries on read titles in a journal. They are then expected to participate in debates on the topic of the month.

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An English hour

English hour is meant to address the challenge of students English illiteracy, In two days within a week we will have an English hour where students will learn various English words, sentences, discussion, English debates and other funny activities. some days teachers will lead students to learn virtually through radio or TV where they will watch or listen to English conversation and students will have to remember the key conversations for role plays. They will also learn grammar, they will combine with sports to capture their interest in the subject.

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Fostering a language policy to improve students learning outcome

Students in our school get less chance to practice the English language as the school has no language culture. Majority of the teachers and students use local language in school for formal and informal discussions. Due to it students linguistic skills are not improved the way it is required.

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Changing Literacy culture in Primary School

Language is not being practiced in schools according to the needs of the students. Local language Wakhi is focused. So i am trying to change the language culture to enhace students english language djilla (reading, writing, speaking and listening).

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Put on a puppet show

Using props to tell stories and demonstrating techniques of effective storytelling with creativity and imagination.

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Welcome to My Restaurant

Welcome to My Restaurant combines role play and language learning in the classroom. It helps students to learn helpful vocabulary within a context, and teaches them how to order and behave in a restaurant. The practice can be also used to discuss how to behave when you have food in your mouth or how to address the waiter when you need something. Complete the same activity in a different language or in a different location (different type of restaurant, etc.) You can also play the same activity but focus on the mathematical calculations of the menu.

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Giving Wings to Learn

Activity Based Learning is a learning process that differs from the traditional approach, which relies on the delivery of knowledge where learners are considered as passive learners. Activity-Based Learning dismantles traditional hierarchies by recognizing and utilising each child's inherent capacity to learn based on their individual abilities. It makes learning fun and engaging while ensuring that every child is heard and included. So it builds upon their capacity to exercise different ways of expressing and learning so the knowledge does not remain secondary or decontextualized rathe

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Let's Go to the Museum

This practice can be used to acquire and use a variety of thematic vocabulary to use when talking about students' environment. It helps them to name, label and arrange objects into groups based on their different characteristics. Self-efficacy of students improve as them confidently take the visitor(s) around the museum.

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Surprise Acts of Kindness

Identifying different ways of showing kindness to one another.

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