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1. Background
Nepal is now officially the poorest country in Asia. Teachers, teaching materials and the quality of teaching are for the most part outside the scope of the government's policy.
In Nepal, education in the rural areas still and foremost takes the form of rote learning. The teacher talks (with a laud voice, usually to scream therefore better describes the vocal activity of a Nepali teacher) and the students listen and repeat. The teachers try to drill knowledge into young brains, with the help of a bamboo stick or heavy ruler if needed. There is no learning through playing or learning through doing; no activities, neither single nor in small groups; no stage of practicing or producing anything with the knowledge acquired.
Today, in rural part of Nepal, the approach is clearly teacher oriented. Schools lack materials to teach in creative, interesting ways. Village schools often have only a blackboard and some pieces of chalk as material for a teacher to run the class. Teachers lack training to teach in interactive ways that stimulate the children. If a school does not have a large range of diverse materials, it can only compensate for this by a teacher with a range of diverse techniques like having children come to the blackboard and write or draw something, play hangman, do a guessing game with drawn pictures on the board, make groups and do role-plays, have sing-a-longs, etc. But probably not a single teacher in rural Nepal has ever seen any of these techniques being displayed in practice.
2. Introduction of Project Site and selection of school
The project will be implemented in 16 government school located within Lumbini Zone of Nepal. It is the place where Lord Buddha was borne. There are 6 districts in Lumbini Zone and they are Rupandehi, Kapilvastu, Nawalparasi, Arghakanchi, Gulmi and Palpa. At least 2-3 schools will be selected from each of the district. The school will be selected by RC Butwal with the help of district education office on the basis of need.
3. Burning Problems of the Project Site :
i. Parents are too poor to pay the costs of better education they cannot afford to send their children to private schools. At village schools we see many children without books, notebooks or even pencils.
ii. Average Learning Achievement of the students is not satisfied.
iii. Students are ignorant of computer education.
iv. All of the teachers are not trained of computer training.
v. Teachers & students are poor in information & technology.
4. Objectives of the Project Proposed:
i. To give effective teaching training to teachers
ii. To give training of computer education to the teachers & students of the school.
iii. To develop the school as the computer center.
5. Targeted groups of the project:
This project will benefit about 200 teachers and approximately 4,500 students in 16 schools.
6. Expected Achievements of the Project:
i. Teachers & students of the school will be trained in computer education.
ii. New teaching and learning environment will be created
7. Sustainability of the project:
Fund for repairing & maintenance of computers will be managed by the school in the future. In the initial stage, computer teacher is required for teaching computer education. After that, students of senior classes will teach the new comers. This process will continue onward. Sometimes local village development committee and other institutions will support the computer center. As well as local youth club and the community people will make the center sustainable the project.
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