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  1. Child-Friendly Schools

    UNICEF's child-friendly school model promotes inclusiveness, gender-sensitivity, tolerance, dignity and personal empowerment. It is based on the following principles: Schools should operate in the best interests of the child. Educational environments must be safe, healthy and protective. Classrooms should have trained teachers and adequate ...

  2. Child-friendly school environment to ensure children's welfare

    The child-friendly school was one of the efforts to support the o ngoing sustainable education. development by creating a clean environment and gave attention to children welfare in the school. In ...

  3. PDF Quality education through Child-Friendly Schools: resource allocation

    Definition / purpose. Child-friendly school, or CFS, is UNICEF's approach to promoting quality education in schools for all children - especially among the most vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations - both in everyday circumstances and in emergencies. Child-friendly educators focus on the needs of the ̳whole' child (which include ...

  4. THE CONCEPT OF CHILD FRIENDLY SCHOOL

    A Child Friendly School is a framework designed by UNICEF as the answer to the above needs. A Child Friendly School is a school that recognizes and nurtures the achievement of children's basic rights. A school is considered child friendly when it provides a safe, clean, healthy and protective environment for children.

  5. DepEd Child-Friendly School • DepEd Tambayan

    A Child-friendy School should aspire for these seven (7) goals: Encourage children's participation in school and community. Enhance children's health and well-being. Guarantee safe and protective spaces for children. Encourage enrolment and completion. Ensure children's high academic achievement and success.

  6. Child Friendly School: Principles and Practices

    A Child Friendly School is a framework designed by UNICEF as the answer to the above needs. A Child Friendly School is a school that recognizes and nurtures the achievement of children's basic rights. A school is considered child friendly when it provides a safe, clean, healthy and protective environment for children.

  7. PDF Promoting child-friendly school model through school committee as ...

    in promoting child-friendly school model and quality education. Child-friendly school model The framework of a child-friendly school (CFS) was introduced by UNICEF in 1999 as part of the global need to improve quality education driven by the philosophy of child rights, which regards the position of education as promoting child development [1 ...

  8. PDF Inclusive Education and Child-Friendly Schools

    2. Ensuring Inclusive Education: Key Considerations. Inclusive education is both a "top down" and "bottom up" initiative. It focuses on system changes that involve multiple stakeholders, including parents, teachers, administrators, policy makers, and students. At the same time, inclusive education is concerned with specific students.

  9. Child Friendly Schools: Challenges and Issues in Creating a Positive

    Schools should develop their own policies keeping international safe-school policies, local facilities, and the vision of the school, in mind. Principal, teachers, non-teaching staff, parents and local society and children themselves should be part of the school level policy. ... Child-friendly schools need to work with parents and local ...

  10. PDF Child-friendly Schools: An Assessment of Secondary Schools

    grades) perceive their school as child-friendly. The mixed method approach was chosen for the study. The quantitative data was collected with 'Child-Friendly School Scale (CFSS)' developed by the researchers. A total of 54 schools and 4007 students comprise the sample, and the scale was implemented in one class from each grade level chosen ...

  11. A child-friendly school: How the school implements the model

    The components of CFS model are: 1) A written. commitment as a po licy; 2) Implementation of a child-friendly learning process; 3) Well-trained teachers and. personnel on children's rights; 4 ...

  12. PDF National Framework of Child-friendly School

    In the child-friendly schools, these issues are addressed. If the child-friendly environment exists in the schools, children can learn quickly and they will have less mental stress while reading and writing. ... Vision and immediate programmes foster child-friendly environment by internalizing innovation, creativity and change. ...

  13. Department of Education: Republic of The Philippines

    The document discusses what constitutes a child-friendly school. A child-friendly school recognizes and respects children's rights, provides a safe and inclusive learning environment, and promotes the health, participation and academic success of its students. It also encourages community involvement. Specifically, a child-friendly school has five key traits: it is inclusive and non ...

  14. Implementation Of Child Friendly Schools

    Child-friendly schools (CFSs) in Kenya is an example of a non-governmental initiative sponsored by UNICEF with the aim of not just providing children right to education but the right to the "right" education. In other words, CFSs are more concerned with the quality of basic education in addition to its access. The emergence of CFSs in Kenya was ...

  15. Child-Friendly Schools: An Assessment of Kindergartens

    The aim of this study is to identify the teaching-learning environment of independent kindergartens in the context of a child-friendly. The data of the study was obtained from the independent kindergarten in different socioeconomic environments with "CFS Diagnostic Form". According to the results, it was seen that in terms of effectiveness ...

  16. (PDF) Child-Friendly School System on the School ...

    School Performance of the Child-Friendly School System. Schools Participation rate Survival rate Retention rate Repetition rate Completion rate. Average 94.76% 94.52% 5.43% 5.84% 95.86%. As shown ...

  17. Child Friendly School Case Study

    Child Friendly School Case Study. 819 Words4 Pages. SCHOOL PROBLEM STAGE 1 Assess STEP 1 Get Organized The CFS initiative in the Philippines is rooted in the provisions of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Children (CRC) adopted in 1989 by the U.N. member countries, which include the Philippines. The initiative was first put into action in ...

  18. (Pdf) the Leadership Role Expectations of Primary School Head-teachers

    In addition to the five keys, child friendly school initiative manual recommended evaluation: effective child friendly school heads should make it a point of duty to evaluate on regular basis the school mission and vision in order to assess how appropriate or current they are. This will enable the leader to check whether they are doing well or not.

  19. Child Friendly School Environment

    A child friendly school environment is as the name suggests. According to UNICEF, a child friendly school should boast of an environment that is physically protected, genuinely secure and mentally empowering. A child friendly school views education as each kid's privilege and screens the rights of each child in the community and creates an ...

  20. (PDF) THE LEADERSHIP ROLE EXPECTATIONS OF PRIMARY SCHOOL ...

    UNICEF (2010).Child friendly school initiative: Module 1: Developing head teachers skills for leadership roles in child friendly schools: New York. A Handbook on school administration and ...

  21. Child-Friendly Schools: An Assessment of Kindergartens

    It has been concluded that the independent kindergartens are largely child-friendly, despite some inadequacies. Keywords: Child-friendly school, child rights, kindergarten, teaching-learning environment. To cite this article: Cobanoglu, F., & Sevim, S. (2019). Child-friendly schools: An assessment of kindergartens.

  22. Answers to: Write an essay about Reflection about Child Friendly school

    In this essay, I will reflect upon my experiences in implementing the child-friendly school approach and how it has positively impacted my teaching and students' learning outcomes. Understanding the Child-Friendly School Approach: The child-friendly school approach is focused on creating a conducive learning environment that supports child ...