Teachers of Grade 1 in primary schools across Laos will be trained to teach the new national primary school curriculum, with will start with their grade in September

All Grade 1 students and teachers started the school-year this September with new textbooks and a new pedagogical approach. The new teaching method based on active learning represents a major change in the classrooms

How do you take care of your textbooks? How do you keep them clean? How do you protect them? How do you keep them in a good condition to enable future students use them?

How can you study successfully when you have little or no understanding of the language of instruction? This is a reality faced by many children in Laos when they start school. Lao is the official language of instruction. All textbooks, educational materials and teaching are in Lao language. Yet 38% of the children entering primary school do not have Lao or a dialect of Lao as their mother tongue

As Grade 1 students are about to start school next week with a new curriculum, the Districts Education and Sports Bureaus (DESB) have been very busy liaising with every primary school in the country to distribute the new textbooks and teacher resource packs

School is starting soon… Are you getting excited? A little bit nervous? Are you ready?

In a few days, all Grade 1 children will start the school-year with new colorful textbooks and a new active learning methodology

The scale of the new Grade 1 curriculum training is without precedent: Over a period of only nine weeks, 483 six-days face to face workshops will have been delivered and over 16,700 Grade 1 teachers, primary school principals and pedagogical advisors will have been trained by 611 provincial trainers and 60 master trainers

This September, all Lao Grade 1 students will start the school-year with a new curriculum. The curriculum revision is significant as it is nationwide and entails a new pedagogical approach