UNESCO Teacher Emergency Package (TEP)
	Each TEP contains basic teaching equipment for children and teachers (textbooks, teacher's manual, pens, pencils, eraser, exercise books, books, blackboards, chalks, etc.) and can cater for the daily needs of 80 pupils. Teachers are given on-the-spot training in their use.

 

The Teacher Emergency Package (TEP) consists of a kit of materials and a methodology of teaching basic literacy and numeracy in the mother language of the pupils. There is a box containing slates, chalk, dusters, exercise books and pencils for eighty students (in two shifts). The teacher's bag contains blackboard paint, brush and tape measure so that teachers can create their own blackboard on a wall if necessary; white and coloured chalk; pens, pencils, pencil sharpeners and felt markers; ten "scrabble sets" so that teachers can create language and number games for the children; three cloth charts (alphabet, number and multiplication), an attendance book, a note book and the Teacher Guide - which outlines the pedagogical methods and the content of lessons to develop literacy and numeracy. The kit covers grades one to four (approximately) and is designed for a six month span of learning that then phases into the formal textbook- based curriculum. The UNESCO team has also developed a training programmme for the implementation of TEPs based on a "train the trainer" approach. Once a core group of national trainers has been trained (by one of the UNESCO team) these trainers in turn move out to train head teachers or representative teachers. These people in turn train their colleagues at the school level. This approach has several advantages: - It allows national staff to develop psychological ownership of the programme (not generally the case when they merely receive handouts. -It also develops an independence and an infrastructure that augers well for the next phase of the formal curriculum. -In addition there is a strong ethical base for using as many national staff as possible in a programme of reconstruction.

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