МАЛЧДЫН ТАВАН НАСТАЙ ХҮҮХДИЙН СУРГУУЛЬД БЭЛТГЭГДСЭН БАЙДЛЫГ ҮНЭЛСЭН ЗАРИМ ҮР ДҮН

Abstract

A World Bank research report on preschool education in Mongolia recommended that access to preschool education in rural areas should be improved by implementing the family-based education programs for children in remote communities or herder households.

Mongolia has implemented many projects and programs to prepare 5-year-old children to school, who cannot attend preschool program or kindergarten, in the family environment with the help of their parents.

One example of this is the project "Better School Start – Better School Life” jointly implemented by MSUE, the “Association for Primary and Secondary School Development” of Mongolia, and Community for International Cooperation in Education and Development (CICED) / Denmark.

Within the framework of this project, we have written and developed the Exercise workbook. "Preparing five-year-old children for school and "Handbook for parents to prepare their five-year-old children for school" with the purpose of preparing five-year-old children for school based on their families. Every year hundreds of children are benefited.

We planned to reach more than 2,000 children of herder households during the entire project implementation period. In 2019-2020, we have reached 500 children of herdsmen, 1000 children in 2021, and 1000 herders’ children in 2022. We have started the work of developing the herders’ children based on their families and preparing them for school, which is more than 90% of the target group.

A total of 70 children from 4 provinces participating in the project were surveyed according to 11 indicators of movement and health, 16 indicators of cognitive creativity, and 11 indicators of communication and learning methods. The assessment was considered at the following 3 levels:

• able to do it independently
• able to do it with others help
• unable to do it at

When children were evaluated by 38 criteria of 8 areas of Initial Assessment, 23% of all children could do the task independently, 37% could do it with the help of others, and 40% could not do the task at all. According to the results of the research, the 5-year-old children of the herder households were lack of social skills such as self-expression, following rules and instructions, completing tasks and expressing their desire to go to school.