Hanoi (VNA) -At least 4,000 ethnic minority children aged three to six have benefited fromthe pilot of the Emergent Literacy and Math (ELM) toolkit to build foundationalreading and math skills.
In addition, thecapacity of 2,200 teachers and caregivers have been enhanced to supportchildren in building early foundational skills to better equip them to enter thefirst grade.
These are some of theachievements of the ELM toolkit announced ata conference in Hanoi on June 14.
Hoang Duc Minh, Directorof the Agency of Teacher and Education Administrators, said the ELM toolkit hasproven effective throughout its three-year pilot programme. This is a usefultoolkit to support teachers in their execution of the early childhood educationprogramme, he added.
An assessment of thetoolkit’s three-year pilot using the method of International Development andEarly Learning Assessment (IDELA) has shown a considerable improvement in theIDELA scores in all domains of the benefitted children. Motion skills increasedfrom 44 to 56 percent, early literacy skills from 21 to 37 percent, early mathskills from 38 to 50 percent and socio-emotional development from 27 to 32 percent.
The ELM toolkit is oneof the key activities of the project, “Emergent literacy and math skills in earlychildhood development,” in Van Chan district of northern Yen Bai province, andTay Giang district of central Quang Nam province, from 2015 to 2018. The projecthas received a grant of 725,300 USD.
The project’s overallobjective is to improve school readiness and inclusive development of targetedethnic minority children, including H’Mong, Dao, Thai and Co Tu children.
There are three maincomponents of the project: improving the learning environment in pre-schools,improving the learning environment at home and advocating recognition of theELM approach by the Ministry of Education and Training.-VNA
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