Deadline: 20-Sep-22
The CGF Armenian Schools Grant Program in Lebanon intends to give schools the possibility to develop a comprehensive project that addresses any aspect of professional practice or pressing issues in education within a given school.
Objectives
- Renewal and reform efforts often fail because schools lack effective action plans and the financial resources to implement them. Thus, CGF would like to offer schools that strive to meet the challenges of renewal and the challenges of updating their pedagogy (or learning-related services) the financial means to implement specific activities meant to improve the school in general, and the teaching of Western Armenian in particular.
- This grant program would allow selected schools to implement innovative teaching practices and pilot new approaches that reflect the latest educational thinking. Initiatives could include, among others, the development of new curricula, the use of information technologies (eg, language apps), classroom libraries, the purchase and use of new pedagogic tools, after-school or student-led activities, and, importantly, the development of new curricula based on methodologies, such as projectbased learning and reader’s and writer’s workshops.
Funding Information
- CGF will allocate up to 150,000 Euros in total to selected Armenian schools in Lebanon during the 2022–2023 academic year. The Foundation will support a maximum of three schools, for up to 50,000 Euros each. Initiatives presented should be finalized by the end of 2023, including implementation and evaluation.
Eligibility Criteria
Except for the three schools with ongoing projects in this grant program’s previous cycle, all Armenian schools in Lebanon are eligible to participate in the CGF Armenian Schools Grant Program in Lebanon. All relevant stakeholders of schools should collaborate to identify the needs of their institution: principals, school trustees, teachers, parental councils and students. The submitted projects ought to demonstrate how they are addressing the actual needs of the school and how they envision bringing about substantial reform.
Evaluation Criteria
The Armenian Communities Department envisions these projects to target the following nonrestricted categories: –
- Reform in the teaching of Western Armenian: Introducing methodology and creating programs and instructional material in line with the latest research in language teaching.
- Early childhood programs: Creating or reforming early childhood programs with a student-centered scope, where children experience ownership of their own learning and get early exposure to collaborative learning and creative practices.
- Special education programs: Creating or developing programs, resources, and assessment tools for children with learning difficulties or special needs.
- Increase in-service teacher and school leader effectiveness: Creating or adopting teacher-training programs meant to update the pedagogical and technological knowledge of in-service teachers and school leaders.
- Comprehensive instructional reform strategies : Developing larger initiatives targeting the school or the curriculum.
- Establish an inclusive school culture : Team building and creating democratic school communities by involving all stakeholders in developing the school curricula.
Priority will be given to projects not limited to one school and projects that produce outcomes that could be shared with the broader community of Armenian schools in Lebanon and the Diaspora.
For more information, visit https://gulbenkian.pt/en/bolsas-lista/armenian-schools-grant-program-in-lebanon/
