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Step by Step Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Step by Step is an education reform program that introduces child-centered teaching methods and supports community and family involvement in preschool and primary school. |
 | | The Step by Step method encourages children to make choices, take responsibility for their decisions, express their ideas with creativity, help one another, develop critical thinking skills, and practice independent thinking. |
 | | Step by Step provides an innovative and comprehensive five-year approach to institutional reform of early childhood education by training teachers and administrators at model schools, training university faculty in new pedagogy, and cooperating with education and health ministries to promote development of child-friendly policies. |
| www.soros.org /initiatives/children/focus_areas/a_step (304 words) |