SIS - adaption in Nepal
1. Team
Mr. Deepak Maharjan and Mrs. Sumitra Gurung, our experienced project managers, are the school's Principals.
Their job is in cooperation with our association's committee to prepare the school's organization and lead it step by step over 3 years to fulfilment of the project's aims. Further teachers will also be employed early enough so that there is time to train them in the school philosophy and modern teaching methods.
The team consists of 38 teachers, 2 school directors, 1 accountant, 3 governesses of the orphanage, 1 charwoman and 1 night-watchman. Our German voluntaries support the pre-primary classes with their active engagement and plan a variety of leisure activities for the children in the orphanage.
There are 20 spacious class rooms, 3 staff rooms, 2 further office rooms, 1 computer room with 9 connected PCs, 1 library with 600 books and 2 laboratories.
4 weeks before the start of new school year, which the government had reset to 3 months earlier, in cooperation with professors of the TU and German education trainers we could start the training of practical teaching, learning theory, lesson planning, use of media and the project's philosophy, and supervision. With success - the team became a functioning unit, relaxedly awaiting the hardships of the first weeks in the new school.
After only 4 weeks with starting problems, SIS already found to routine, 8 continuous workgroups began with the formulation of guidelines for quality assurance and the lesson plans were put into practice.
Permanent model lessons shall encourage the teachers to action oriented and student related teaching and promote creative usage of methods and media.
2. Three Years Plan
A differentiated plan for the stepwise realization of the school's aims has been worked out:
In the first year the main objectives are the formulation of a guideline catalogue, the structuring of the school- and lesson activities, permanent feedback and work organisation meetings. Every 3 months there is a feedback and work organisation meetings at an external location, to discuss and make problems transparent and search for solutions.
The guideline catalogue is similar to the model worked out in Germany and will structure the ongoing operations, considering quality management criterions.
In the second year the plans are a balanced balance, the increase of students to 450 and the raising of the pedagogical standard by further teacher trainings.
2004 the orphanage's costs will be paid by 50% of the SIS income with 582 students. Lessons will be held up to class 9, while each following year one class more up to College level (class 12) will be educated.
3. Ongoing adaptions
Together with the staff restructuring and the ongoing development of the projects, there are also changes in the cooperation between the Shangri-La association and the Govinda development aid e.V.. The permanent presence of a German association's committee member is not necessary any more after the school building project is now finished. This shall also strengthen the self-care competence of the Nepalese association and the whole staff, since our aim is to give help so that they can help themselves further on.