| Schools Ready for the Community Children GSS schools are ready for the community children from age 4 to 11. They are safe with spacious and well-lit classrooms, 30 students class size, and one qualified and trained, preferably woman teacher in every classroom |
| Access, girl child focus and inclusiveness: Every child in the 4 - 11 age-group in the community, including every girl child, and children with varying abilities and background, attends GSS schools. |
| Child Centred: The learning environment and teaching learning inside the classroom are designed around the key characteristics of children, in other words, what children are like and how they learn. |
| Active Teaching Learning: Each child is actively engaged in a purposeful activity every minute inside the classroom rather than having to listen passively to the teacher lecturing from one end of the classroom |
| Learner-Teacher ratio: 30 : 1 |
Learning Environment:
 Active Learning Environment inside the classroom allowing children to interact and choose from a range of activities and to work individually as well as in small and large groups
Availability of a selection of resources that make competency linked activities possible inside the classroom;
Wide range of developmentally appropriate books inside the classroom;
Displays of learning as well as learner generated materials and works on the walls that would be rotated periodically;
A teacher, preferably a woman, trained with hands-on experience in active teaching learning. |
Teaching Learning:
Time Management and active Teaching Learning through effective time management both for the teacher and the learner so that each child is actively engaged in a purposeful activity every minute inside the classroom;
Continuous Assessment & Lesson Planning: Individual Lesson Planning based on continuous assessment allowing each learner to proceed according to her/his ability and pace; |
| Curriculum: GSS follows the National Curriculum but builds on it by strengthening the gaps and firmly focusing on acquisition of the core competencies such as language, numeracy and environmental science (IT, though seen as part of the core curriculum, has not been included in the GSS programme as yet) as well as music, art, craft and theatre. |
| Teacher Education and Training: An initial 15 day training is followed by six months on the job teacher support by a Supervisor. In addition, there is a monthly follow-up training and an annual 'Refresher Training'. All training integrates hands-on experience in child-centred active learning classroom environment so that the teacher is able to transform her/his own classroom and create the desired learning environment and the activities without much difficulty; |
| Supervision: Designing Supervision focused on academic, in particular subject content based teacher support; |
| Monitoring: Monitoring individual learner performance towards building an EMIS decentralised at the local level to help policy decisions creating space for appropriate intervention both at the central and local levels |
Community Participation: In each working area communities are engaged in the initial discussions leading to setting  up a school. The community provides the land on which GSS constructs the school. The community participates in the potential learner survey and ensures that every child over the age of 5 attends school. Parents are also engaged in the Parent-Teacher Association which.. .Teachers undertake home visits if children miss school for two successive days. More recently parents have started paying a small fees every month and contributing towards cost of supplementary reading materials and stationery. No incentive is provided either to the parents or the learner for enrolling or attending school except high quality education. |
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Successful operation of a significant number of excellent schools demonstrates knowledge and understanding not only of the pedagogy of teaching learning but also it's successful application in producing results. In primary education, this means integrating the key elements of teaching learning inside a classroom and delivering excellent learner achievement that are visible and measurable, and most importantly, replicable. In the context of the GSS Active Teaching Learning Model, the elements include the following:
