A CHILD FRIENDLY SCHOOL

CHONA C. CAPULONG

How can we say that a school is a child friendly? A child-friendly school ensures every child an environment that is physically safe, emotionally secure and psychologically empowering.

Child-friendly schools aim to develop a learning environment in which children are motivated and able to learn. It recognizes, encourages and supports children’s growing capacities as learners by providing a school culture, teaching behaviors and curriculum content that are focused on learning and the learner.

Upholds good quality teaching and learning processes with individualized instruction appropriate to each child’s developmental level, abilities, and learning style and with dynamic, accommodating, and self-governing learning methods.

Delivers life skills-based health education. And also provides positive experiences for children especially children who are in need.

Experience is now showing that a framework of rights-based, child-friendly schools can be a powerful tool for both helping to fulfill the rights of children and providing them an education of good quality

For school staff, parents, and other community members, the framework can serve as both a goal and a tool of quality improvement through localized self-assessment, planning, and management and as a means for mobilizing the community around education and child.

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The author is Master Teacher I at Fausto Gonzales Sioco Memorial School