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MALDIVES / TSUNAMI +5 SCHOOLS
STORY: MALDIVES / TSUANMI +5 - SCHOOLS
TRT: 1:54
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / DHIVEHI /NATS
DATELINE: 1, 4 NOVEMBER, 2009, MALE & RAA ATOLL, MALDIVES
1. Various Shots, children in classroom
2. Various shots, teacher interacting with students,
3. SOUNDBITE (Dhivehi) Ahmed Sobah, teacher:
“You notice the difference in the initiative children take. They finish one task, and then move onto the next without being asked.”
4. Various shots, mothers of students arriving at school and filing into classroom
5. Various shots, teacher in class with students
6. Wide shot, mothers of children sitting and observing session
7. Wide shot, mothers taking children away at the end of class
8. Various shots, pre-school
9. SOUNDBITE (Dhivehi) Afnaan Anwar, aged 4:
“I like to play with dolls.”
10. Wide shot, Afnaan Anwar being collected from school by her mother
11. SOUNDBITE (Dhivehi) Varuda Gasim, mother:
“Teaching now is based far more on play and there’re lots of materials for the children to use.”
12. Wide shot, exterior Teacher Resource Centre
13. Various shots, staff operating a interactive ‘Smart board
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ibrahim Rasheed, TRC Co-Ordinator:
“If you are talking about four years back, in every class we found that five or six or seven students who can’t read, who can’t write. But now you go and see. Everybody can write, everybody can read.”
15. Various shots, children playing in yard at pre-school, Meedhoo Island
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Mansoor M. Ali, Representative, UNICEF Maldives: “So today if you meet any child who has just graduated from a Child Friendly school, he or she is bright, responsive, very confident.”
17. Various shots, pre-school children in playground
18. Med shot, Afnaan Anwar balancing on beam
19. Pan left, from Medhoo of surrounding islands
In this child friendly classroom, play-based teaching methods provide a clear indication of the change in schools in the Maldives.
And the difference in the children is obvious.
SOUNDBITE (Dhivehi) Ahmed Sobah, teacher:
“You notice the difference in the initiative children take. They finish one task, and then move onto the next without being asked.”
At the end of class, parents are invited in to share in the wrap up session on the day’s activities.
Just a short distance from this elementary school on the island of Medhoo, the local pre-school has also undergone a child friendly transformation.
SOUNDBITE (Dhivehi) Afnaan Anwar, aged 4:
“I like to play with dolls.”
Having brought up three older children, her mother Varuda Gasim, is able to compare the teaching methods now, with those before the tsunami.
SOUNDBITE (Dhivehi) Varuda Gasim, mother:
“Teaching now is based far more on play and there’re lots of materials for the children to use.”
The changes are driven by Teacher Resource Centres like this one. Built throughout the atolls with support from UNICEF, they offer state-of-the-art equipment, which is popular with teachers and students alike.
SOUNDBITE (English) Ibrahim Rasheed, TRC Co-Ordinator:
“If you are talking about four years back, in every class we found that five or six or seven students who can’t read, who can’t write. But now you go and see. Everybody can write, everybody can read.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Mansoor M. Ali, Representative, UNICEF Maldives: “So today if you meet any child who has just graduated from a Child Friendly school, he or she is bright, responsive, very confident.”
Five years after the tsunami, a new generation of school children benefiting from the changes, introduced in response to it.
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