1. Post-Primary Basic And Continuing Education (PACE)
Secondary School Support
Teachers’ Training
Multipurpose Community Learning Centre
Students’ mentoring
Computer Aided Learning
Promoting Academic Talent
Post-Primary Basic And Continuing Education (PACE)

2. Major components of PACE
Post-primary Basic Education (PBEn)
Goal:
Improve overall quality of secondary education
Continuing Education (CE)
Goal:
Establishing a Learning society promoting reading opportunities and easy access to technology

3. Major Components of PACE
Capacity Building: Subject Teachers’
Training& School Management:
High Performance
Institutional Capacity
Development & Learning:
Holistic Child
PBEn CE
Gonokendro
(Multipurpose
Community
Learning Centre)
Major
Components
Students’
Mentoring
Chhatra
Bandhu
(Volunteer Tutor)
Computer Aided
Learning (CAL)
Medhabikash
Uddyog
(Promoting
Academic Talent)

4. Objectives: Post-primary Basic Education
To improve the quality of education in non-government secondary school through enhancing the teaching skills of teachers
To promote self-esteem, leadership and creativity of secondary school students
To ensure an enabling teaching–learning environment in the BRAC-supported schools
To develop the quality of classroom teaching by introducing technology-based education

5. Modalities of Edn Management
Orientation/Workshop
Education Management and Development
Beneficiaries: HT, AHT & SMCs
Duration: 3 days
Contact hours: 19.5 hours
Residential
Beneficiaries: Head Teacher
Two modular course (5 days each)
Contact hours:78 hours (39 hours each)
Residential
Assignment based
School Activities Plan (SAP)
Beneficiaries: Head Teacher
Duration: 3 days
Contact hours: 19.5 hours
Residential

6. Subject Based Training
Subjects areas: English, Mathematics, Science, Bangla & Computer
Category: classes 6-8 and classes 9-10
Trainees : Teachers of relevant subjects (Math & English: 3 Teachers, Science: 2 Teachers & 1 Teacher from Bangla & Computer from each school
Modality : Two modular Course; 20 days each; followed by 5 days refresher for Math, English & Science
12 days course for Bangla & Computer

7. Continuing Education (CE)
Objectives:
Maintain literacy skill and mobilise rural communities by engaging them with libraries, develop financially sustainable learning centre.
Develop right values and voluntarism among students to bring changes in society.
Revival of volunteerism and skill development among community people especially youth.
Reaching out to underprivileged meritorious students and provide financial and skill based support
Provide rural citizens with access to information to develop their capacity and competency.

8. Students’ Mentoring
Objectives:
Increase academic cycle completion and reduce dropout
increase attendance of students
in school and classes
Develop leadership potentials and raise involvement in co curricular activities
Develop a demand for quality education among students
Increase practice of moral values among students

9. Students Mentorship Cycle
Attendance; classroom
participation &
performance
Involvement in co-curricular activities
Competent students, advocates for social change and responsible citizens
Support fellow students as needed
Develop new skills; competence; habit & values 3

10. Computer Aided Learning (CAL)
Computer Aided Learning Programme was initiated to make text content easy, interactive, interesting and stimulating adding visualization.
Objectives:
To improve teaching skills in:
making classes more learner centered, joyful and interactive
delivering lessons with conceptual clarity and better understanding

11. Medhabikash Uddyog
Medhabikas provide poor talented students with stipend to continue higher education.
The stipend is provided at higher secondary and undergraduate level.
Selection criteria:
GPA 5 in SSC without additional subject; Family income not more than 3000/- & Land size maximum 50 decimals, parent’s profession mostly day laborer.

12. Chhatrabandhu (Volunteer Tutor)
Chhatrabandhu programme provides tuition support to the poor students of grades VI to VIII organizing the local educated people to teach voluntarily. Goal: To Ensure 100% pass rate at SSC examination of the underprivileged students who admitted or will get admission in class six.

13. Objectives
To encourage and engage the community based educated persons into the voluntary works for the development of the poor students.
To ensure 100% participation in all examinations
To ensure regular attendance in school of underprivileged students
To assimilate / involve school for the development of the underprivileged students.

14. Collaborate and Complement
Objectives of Chhatrabandhu
100% completion of secondary education of all Chhatrabandhu supported underprivileged students
Revival of volunteerism and skill development among community people especially youth
Objective of SoFEA
Social and Financial Empowerment of Adolescent girls through life skill, capacity building training , livelihood opportunity and greater access to credit and Education
Outcomes
Students’ better performance in internal and external exam
Contribute in reducing drop outs
Easy access of volunteers through SoFEA Clubs
Support to Education yields better acceptance from community for both programs
Completion of Secondary Education
Skilled club members with wider and diverse livelihood opportunity
Interest to keep continue and restart Education among SoFEA members

15. Gonokendros
Gonokendros are multipurpose learning centers, which create access to a wider range of learning, skill development and cultural activities.
Gonokendro in brief
Opened with the financing of both BRAC and the community
Located at the union level/ secondary school premises
Located in a space donated by the community

16. Gonokendros in brief (cont…)
Has an average of member
Operates by a part-time librarian (usually a woman)
Open for 4-6 hours a day and 6 days a week
Provides reading materials including books, newspapers and magazines. There are 1,000 books and 1-2 dailies.
Children’s Corner with 150 books and 2 magazines
Becomes self-financing within 2 years by forming trust

17. Services related to students
Students’ hour
Readers’ forum
Best reader award
Wall magazines
Computer: Children and Students’ Package
Textbook lending
Paper (newspaper, magazines)
Reference books for students and teachers

18. Major activities of Gonokendros
Library
Mobile
library
Readers’
Forum
Socio-
Cultural
activities
Children’s
Corner
ICT
Skill
development
training

19. Services to wider community
Computer: General package
Mobile and Micro library
Multi-media presentation
Socio-cultural activities
Youth development training
Internet facility