General ESL and In-School Language Labs

Project Description

In-School Language Labs operates in collaboration with low income private schools in Chitral Pakistan. The selected schools provide furnished learning spaces to build English Language Lab and Career Counselling and Coaching Resource Centre and FES provides the necessary technology and internet based content licensed from Fluent U, Lingua Phone and other similar proprietary sources. The lab is run by qualified English Language Facilitators hired and trained by FES who not only deliver the English Language and Career Counselling and Coaching Resources but also train the already existing English Language teachers at the school and empower them to take over the lab.

Language Lab Project Vision

Project Mission

Collaborate with five local host schools and build learning spaces equipped with the right set of technology for teaching English Language Skills and Career Counselling and Coaching Resources.
Introduce internet based English language learning content certified by Lingua Phone, Fluent U and other such proprietary sources.
Provide skilled teacher trainers who could deliver the English Language classes and Career Counselling Resources and train the already existing English Language teachers and empower them to take over the learning spaces.
Introduce best practices in teaching and learning English Language and career counselling and coaching resources

GVS Responsibilites

GVS-WEF works closely with on-the-ground partners to ensure proper delivery of the program, including attendance to ensure that each learner completes a minimum of thirty-six hours of teacher-lead learning. Students receive access to additional educational resources with training concluded by an end-of-term assessment.

GVS Support

Learners who pass their assessment have the option to publish the presentation as a professionally supported podcast. Students with the highest marks are awarded a smartphone for their academic excellence. Our Global Virtual School provides much-needed help in some of the hardest-to-reach areas of the world.

Virtual Learning

We aim to create an effective and efficient virtual learning platform by connecting volunteers and English language professionals with youth and young adults in as many countries and areas as possible. The project aims to set up classes in 50 learning space with 150 virtual volunteers, impacting 2500 students in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

An initiative of the Worldwide Education Fund of the Dallas Foundation (WEF), USA and it’s project delivery partner Foundation to Empower Students (FES), in Pakistan to further the quality of education.

In-School Language Labs are operational at 2 low income private schools in Booni Upper Chitral in Northern Pakistan impacting 500 students, 40 teachers and 2 English Language Facilitators. WEF aims to expand to 20 additional low income private schools in the next 5 years increasing the impact to 5000+ students, 500+ teachers and 40 FES teacher trainers.

Ongoing Marketing and Engagement Activities

English Language Week for Students (ELWS):

English Language Week for Students (ELWS) allows students from the host schools to explore their English speaking, listening, reading and writing skills in a week-long activity where the students are provided with a platform to express their English language skills through poems, essays, short stories, articles, features, songs, and performances.

English Language Conversation Club for Teachers:

English Language Conversation Club aims to provide a platform to teachers from Booni, Chitral to come together and explore, express and expand their English language skills. The aim of the club is to provide the teachers an opportunity to build their capacity in learning English Language skills and fill the gap of learning process between students and their teachers and allow FES to work with the teacher community and identify the best candidates as teacher trainers for In-School Language Labs in Chitral.