PEF launches the pilot project of inclusive education to help rehabilitate the disabled children

Lahore: Punjab Education Foundation has launched the pilot project of inclusive education to help rehabilitate the children with minor disabilities through education.

This project is being launched in collaboration with Special Education Dept. in Lahore, Multan, Vehari, Rawalpindi, Attock, Jhelum and Chakwal districts.

For this purpose, a four-day training of PEF’s master trainers has been completed in the Directorate of Staff Development (DSD), today. These master trainers will, then, train the teachers of partners schools attached with this program so that they could impart best quality education to their special students.

The certificate giving ceremony was held at the DSD Auditorium with Secretary, Special Education Ambreen Raza in the chair. She appreciated the inclusive education project and said that special students have many intrinsic talents to exhibit. She hoped that this project will educate and train such students to live as normal human beings.

MD PEF Ali Jan Khan said that PEF will monthly pay Rs. 950 for each special student to the schools attached with this project. PEF will pay Rs.40 thousand to each inclusive school partner for the provision of necessary facilities for their special students. He told that 42 new master trainers will be recruited while the Continuous Professional Development Program is being revamped, adding that the services of DSD will be benefited upon for capacity building purposes. Honorarium will be accorded to PEF’s subject specialists while revision in their salary structure is also approved by the BOD, he added.

Project Director DSD, Saeed Ramzan also spoke on the occasion and said that teachers training module on inclusive education has been designed which will help the teachers to understand latest educational concepts.

Later, provincial Special Education Secretary Ambreen Raza distributed certificates among the participants.

Meanwhile; The annually held Quality Assurance Test of private schools attached with the phase 9 of Foundation Assisted School (FAS) program of Punjab Education Foundation has started, today, in all the 36 districts of the province. The test will conclude on December 9.

More than one thousand partner schools are taking partner in this exam. PEF has set up control room in the head office to monitor the QAT activity.

The purpose of QAT is to examine the educational standards of the schools partners.