Strategies used by HOPE Formal School to educate young minds

Sharing knowledge is only difficult, when understanding student is beyond your reach… It has never been easy to teach young minds but the difficulty only arises when the teacher doesn’t understand child’s psychology, the problems he is dealing with, and the difficulties he faces while studying, based on these issues, the HOPE Formal School had designed its strategies, which resulted in a 100% matriculation results.

The HOPE Formal School Karachi, which is run by HOPE, an educational based NGO is situated in a slum area of Zia Colony, Korangi, Karachi catering to the underprivileged children and teenagers living in this area. There are 800 students enrolled in this School, but the level of education which is giving to them is no less than any other private School.  It has only become possible, when the school management realized that in order to teach these young minds, they have to understand their family backgrounds, since some of the children were forced to be a child labor, as their parents were  not working anywhere, in this regard the  management decided to give their parents a job according to their knowledge and skills, so that the these folks could also pursue education since they don’t have to bare any expense of School uniforms or School books  and   very negligible amount or no fees are charged from few students. This strategy secures them from their underprivileged environment.

Counseling is done on regular basis, so that teachers   could understand the child psychology. This could help them in understanding  the student’s problems and motivate them to deal with it, this also helps the teacher to relate topics example according to the child Psychology. Extra time is given by the teacher to students who need it, so that students don’t need to take any help from external sources.

Topics are designed in a form of stories so that students could easily understand the topics and they don’t lose their interest. Furthermore, field trips are encouraged, as per required by the syllabus so that team work, self learning and confidence could be developed in students. Creativity is one of the factors that lead to self expression and this is why, HOPE Formal Students are always motivated to participate in such competitions.

It has also been made sure that a  very limited amount of  homework is given to the students, as normally, after school, young girls  have to do  the household chores and the boys are mostly engaged in part time jobs. Indeed, it is not easy to procure this school in a limited resources, but well managed strategies are leading it towards success!