1000 Iranian and refugee children and their families benefited from remedial and parenting classes
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In a joint collaboration, UNICEF and the Ministry of Education organised an intensive remedial programme in Khorasan Razavi and Fars provinces for 1000 Afghan and host community children with low attainments in the past academic year. The programme, funded by EU Humanitarian Aid (ECHO), aimed to ensure that the children were better prepared to learn in the next school year.
The programme provides four weeks of daily classes for boys and girls in the early years of primary school to improve basic skills in math, reading and writing, and social and emotional learning. Alongside classes for children, sessions of parent training were also conducted to empower parents to support their children’s education and physical and mental health and respond to their emotional needs.
The programme results from needs assessments and discussions in the past years with school principals and teachers who believe remedial and pre-primary classes before the new school year are a highly effective way to ensure children are ready to learn in school. These classes are organised in smaller sizes (with a maximum of 20 children per class) so that the teachers can spend more time addressing the students' needs.
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