As part of SPEIP a comprehensive teacher devlopment program was undertaken in an effort to provide quality assurance and institutional development support to low cost private schools. The training of Teachers was a 3-day Training titled “School Improvement and Pedagogical Excellence through Child Centered Learning and Parental Involvement”. The training covered topics such as the School Improvement Plan, Child Centered Approaches, Activity Based Learning and Thematic Based Teaching on Math, English,

Science and other subjects. It also included managing challenging behavior of students and preparation of a 3-month Action Plan to be implemented by the teachers after the training. The training was conducted in 8 clusters for the 297 schools under SPEIP, in which two teachers per school participated. The schools are located in 6 districts of Sindh; Karachi, Hyderabad, Dadu, Badin, Thatta and Khairpur.

This training was based on the beliefs that learning is a natural process that differs for each individual and it happens best when children’s innate natural abilities are understood and respected. For enhancing quality of education and bringing about effective improvements in schools it is absolutely essential that all the teachers, parents and other partners/stakeholders should be aware of these dynamics of learning and should be involved in the learning processes of children in school. However teachers play the most significant role in the schooling process and these trainings aimed to ensure that they play their due role in improving quality of education.