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Fundacja Komeńskiego
Improving Kindergarten
and Pre-primary Education
Accessability in Rural Areas
Experience of Poland,
Monika Rościszewska - WoźniakComenius Foundation
for Child Development
Vilnius 2010
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POLAND
Population: 38 125 479
Rural population: 38,7%
Children aged 0-6: 2 527 900
in rural areas: 43%
Unemployment rate: 10,5% (02/08)
(02.2000 14% ; 02.2004 20%)
Fertility rate: 1,348
Female employment rate: 58,3% (12/08)
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Education for Young Children in Poland
Preschool Education -financed by local municipalities budgets (90%,) and
parents (10%)
�Children 3-6 age:
�3-5 years old children – not compulsory
�6 years old children – compulsory one year preparation to school
Reform of the educational system:
� 2011 5 years old children – compulsory one year preparation to
school
�2012 6 years old –primary education
Forms:
�Preschool center (8 -10 hours per day, groups of 25 children )
�“other forms of preschool education” – (from12 hours per week, small
group 3-15 children)
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ECD in Poland – main problems
�Dramatically low level of participation in preschool education in
Polish rural areas (29% of 3-5 years old)
�Lack of policies for equalizing the educational opportunities for
children from socially and culturally neglected areas
�Lack of partnership between teachers and parents
�Traditional- teacher oriented curriculum for preschool education
�Costs of ECD in rural areas to high- children are disseminated on a
large area
�Traditional kindergarden (10 hours per day)– not suited for rural
municipalities.
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To preschools attend:
29% rural children (age 3-5)
and
68% children from towns and cities
Education for Young Children in Poland
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Our mission
Comenius Foundation has been established in 2003 to create the
best possible environment for children and to help them
develop:
� self-esteem,
� social skills,
� natural curiosity,
�creativity.
We are particularly concerned with the well-being of children
who have fewer chances of a good start in adult life because
they come from economically and culturally disadvantaged
backgrounds and from small communities.
Comenius Foundation for Child Development
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What we do:
To ensure access to high quality early eduaction to all children
�„WhereThere are no Preschools” –new kind of provision,
�„Playgroups” engaging parents and very young children in educationalactivities
�„Invisible Children”pilot program –creating Child and Family Centre(inclusion of social welfare, health, education , child protection service).
To increase the quality of early education in Poland�Comenius Academy, our Training Center -27 trainers, yearly more than1300 teachers trained, �System of quality assurance (standards, mentoring system, internalevaluation)
To increase social participation in educational policy-making
�Local Educational Strategy – 30 local strategies
�Local Partnership for the Developement and Education of YoungChildren
To Iincrease social awareness about the significance of early education � conferences, seminars, publications
Comenius Foundation for Child Development
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� To improve educational opportunities for children in areas without
pre-schools by introducing alternative high quality educational
settings.
� To develop a new systemic solution – a new form of education for
young children that will be available to all municipalities in Poland.
„Where There Are No Pre-schools” main objectives
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Where There Are No Pre-schools -organisation
Preschool centers accessible:
� Located in villages, where children live
� Free of charge for parents
�10-15 children per group
Maximum cost-effectiveness
� Centers located in existing buildings,
�Only educational function, no social care
�One teacher, assisted by parent,
�Small amount of hours (12-20 hours a week)
Quality of education
� Quality maintaining and monitoring supplied by
Comenius Foundation.
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� Children from Centers perform very well at school
� Children with special needs adapt very well to the Centers
� Developing teachers’ pedagogic skills
� Involving parents in the activities of Centres
� Mobilizing local communities
� Lowering the unemployment rate - 30 % of teachers working in the
Centres were previously unemployed
� From 2008 alternative forms of preschool education included in the Law
on Educaton.
� Alternative forms of preschool education inluded in European Social
Fund prioriities for 2007-2013
Where There Are No Pre-schools -results
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Quality system- basic premises
� Only the high quality provision will
equalizing the chances of children
� Everyone is responsible
� Everyone is capable to reflect and to think
about quality,
� Trust!
� Plan of action is implemented together
parents
teacher municipality
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Quality - standards
� Philosophy, values and the curriculum
� Interactions in the centers
� Professional teacher
� Cooperation with parents
� Physical environment
� Center – Community collaboration
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Quality – vision and the content of education
� The curriculum „Good Start of the Preschooler”- recently awarded
by Ministry of the Education - with the I prize for the best curriculum
for the preschool education,
� System of planning and documenting the teacher work – the
innovative and simply way of recording teaching and learning
processes
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Quality -professionalism
� Teacher training – preparatory and in service training –special workshops
fitted to the teachers needs
� Reflective Professional - survey form for teacher with open questions
concerning the pedagogical work - the possibility for the auto-reflection,
auto-evaluation and auto-improvement
� Mentoring – the agreement gained jointly, based on trust, responsibility
for the changes on the teacher side, confidentiality, the process of the
changes: reflection, observation, discussion - action plan,
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� Auto-evaluation and improving the quality - mutual responsibility of
teacher, parents and the municipality authorities - grass root evaluation
� Pilot project of Certificating Preschool Centers – 16 rural Preschool
Centers with the Certificate of the Quality .
„Everyone has something to learn and to improve”
„Constant observation, reflection, research –Never ending story”
„We are capable to take care of our Center”
Quality –grassroot internal evaluation
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Playgroups for Children and Parents - organisation
Organisation
Mixed age group of children (0-4 years old) assisted by parents
Animator – trained by Comenius Foundation,
Program created together by parents and animators
Meetings 1-2 times per week in existing Preschool centres, village cultural center
Low costs!
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Playgroups for Children and Parents - Effects
40 Playgroups in 1 year.
New playgroups in progress – great interest!
Parents engagement!
Raising avarness on the early education
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Municipality
� To ensure sustainability of services for young children
� To strengthen the importance of early childhood education and care
intervention
� To develop the local system of social inclusion of disadvantaged
children
Comenius Foundation
� To help rural municipalities work out long term local educational strategies
for young children.
� Trainer as an external moderator (help but not impose solutions),
Local strategies for Young Children - aims
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Local strategies for Young Children - Practice democracy
Grass root engagement
Participation, diversity equal importance
� municipality officers, councillors, social affairs centres preschools and
primary schools, local NGOs , parents.
Consultations with inhabitants,
Collecting children’s opinions,
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Local strategies for Young Children - Effects
�2005-2009 – Strategies developed in 37 municipalities
�100% of municipalities participating in the workshops worked out a
project of local educational strategy, all of them have been approved by
the Municipality Councils as an official municipality document.
Thanks to strategies:
�easier for municipalities to apply for European Union structural funds.
�more educational services for young children,
�higher social awarness and engagement in different activities for
young children
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Today and Tomorrow - Challenges
� Sustainability and dissemination
Policy for equal chances on a country and local level
Recomendations (teacher training, less external control, more autoevaluation
and cooperation,)
� Improving the system
Pilots: Children and Family Center
Law improvement (law for birth-to three, - different forms of the care and
education
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� 23.09.2009
It is worthy!
� 20.11.2009
Ania 4 years old
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Comenius Foundation for Child Development
tel. (48 22) 881 15 80,
e-mail: [email protected]
www.frd.org.pl
Thank you !
Monika Rościszewska - Woźniak