Tara Education and NEST to Develop Prajwal School as a Model School

1 September 2009, Hetauda, Nepal.
NEST and Tara Education have entered into partnership to develop Prajwal School as a model school. Prajwal School will be be used as a teaching laboratory.
Tara Education was incorporated as a 5013c in July 2009 by Mary McKenna and Lisa Waugh Howard to continue work in Nepal that they began under the auspices of Bank Street College of Education during the 2008 – 9 academic year. During that time Mary McKenna served as Director of the Bank Street Educational Outreach Project in Nepal and Lisa Waugh Howard was a Bank Street Graduate Student.

When workshop instruction with the Tara Principals is offered, it will be designed around a regular schedule of observations of Prajwal teachers. The workshops will provide the foundational knowledge for the observers to understand the theory and practice of learner-centered curricula. Some of the best training institutions teach how to create activities and teachers leave with “a tin box” of activities. However, hands-on activities themselves do not teach open-ended or critical thinking and the teachers (in training programs that range from week-long to three months) do not have the background theory/knowledge to make the activities cognitively rich and stimulating