Our PROGRAM

Changing how teachers teach.

How We Do It

Child Aid’s innovative model focuses on transforming how reading and literacy are taught in rural classrooms.

Quality education benefits children for generations and is a cornerstone to bringing about systemic change. The Child Aid program gives teachers the training, support and resources they need to create classrooms that work. 


Our program stresses basic comprehension and critical thinking skills meant to boost children into becoming independent readers and learners. Child Aid trainers lead a series of teacher training workshops, visit schools multiple times per year to provide books, support, and encouragement, and provide one-on-one coaching as teachers integrate what they have learned into the classroom environment.

Teacher Training Workshops

Teacher Training Workshops

Hands-on workshops designed to give teachers the strategies and techniques that make classrooms more interactive and engaging. Child Aid trainers teach the techniques that build comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Training Teachers

One-on-One

One-on-One Coaching

Trainers visit teachers in their classrooms over the course of the school year, guiding and supporting them as they apply their skills and build their confidence, assisting each teacher in integrating the techniques they have been learning into the active classroom setting.

Coaching

Classroom development

Classroom Development

The cozy, colorful reading corners in Child Aid classrooms are full of books which foster interactive learning for all students. These books bring life to classroom activities and literacy instruction. Books excite students and help develop a habit and love of reading. Teachers lead read-aloud sessions, ask questions and use techniques that help all students learn. Child Aid students read, participate and share ideas. Classrooms like these create independent, confident, life-long learners.

Classroom development

Special Programs

Special Programs

When a special need arises, Child Aid staff are there to addresses that need and further strengthen the communities where we work. From pandemic food delivery to our new Girls Program, we have time and again defined and implemented programming to meet the needs of rural communities.

Special Programs

Program Details

Over the three-year literacy program a teacher receives:

Our Curriculum

Child Aid’s teacher training curriculum and training process is based on best practices in literacy instruction.

Learning how to read involves a linguistic understanding of letters, words, and sounds – and the mechanics of decoding them. Laying a solid foundation of understanding is essential to becoming a strong reader.

Reading engages three different parts of our brain allowing students to visualize, or perceive a written word, pair it with sounds, and give meaning to those sounds. This takes training and practice. Once you know how to read the word, students must work on is the ability to process written text, understand its meaning, and to integrate with the context of other words and sentences.

Making the transition from reading to learning is the process by which students become independent learners better equipped for success in school and life beyond.  Once students are able to read and comprehend what they are reading, they are able to use reading as a tool to learn about all topics and subjects.

For Child Aid, our success lies in the students ability to learn going forward. To evaluate how well our program is providing students the ability to learn through literacy we use a two phased approach to evaluations. Child Aid observes and tests for student development and teacher performance that brings about changes in the learning environment.

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