READREFLECTRE THINKRESEARCHEREADER CURRICULUM RELATERECONSID ERREINTERPRETR REIMAGINEREAD REFLECTRETHINK RESEARCHRELATE The Population Council confronts critical health and development This curriculum has been adapted from Worldreader’s E-reader training issues—from stopping the spread of HIV to improving reproductive and integration guides. health and ensuring that young people lead full and productive lives. Through biomedical, social science, and public health research in 50 This curriculum was funded by a grant from the United States Department countries, we work with our partners to deliver solutions that lead to of State as part of the DREAMS Innovation Challenge, managed by more effective policies, programs, and technologies that improve lives JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI). The opinions, findings, and around the world. Established in 1952 and headquartered in New York, conclusions stated here are those of the authors and do not necessarily the Council is a nongovernmental, nonprofit organization governed by reflect those of the United States Department of State or JSI. an international board of trustees. Suggested citation: Jackson Hachonda, Natalie, Nicole Haberland, Population Council Abdul-Kahad Alhassan, Beatrice Ani-Asamoah, Pamela Nyirenda, and One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza Barbara Mensch (eds.). 2018. GirlsRead! E-Reader Curriculum. New New York, NY 10017 York: Population Council. Tel: 212-339-0500 Fax: 212-775-6052 © 2018 The Population Council, Inc. www.popcouncil.org Email: [email protected] Any part of this volume may be photocopied without permission from Email: [email protected] the authors or publisher, provided that publication credit is given and copies are distributed free. Any commercial reproduction requires Population Council – Zambia prior written permission from the Population Council. Please also Plot 3670 No. 4 Mwaleshi Road credit any original sources as noted for selected activities. For inquiries Olympia Park regarding rights and permission, including translations, please contact P/Bag RW 319X [email protected]. Lusaka, Zambia 10101 Tel: +260 211 295925 ISBN: 0-978-87834-140-4 2 acknowledgments This curriculum was developed for the GirlsRead! project. We are grateful to Worldreader, one of the GirlsRead! implementing partners, for providing training and technical assistance on e-reader use. Selected material from two Worldreader training resources – GirlsRead! Zambia E-reader Training Guide: Kindle Paperwhite Model and GirlsRead! Zambia E-reading Integration Guide – was adapted for this GirlsRead! curriculum. We are grateful to the Forum for African Women Educationalists in Zambia (FAWEZA), our other partner for GirlsRead!, for implementing the program and collecting feedback from mentors on the use of the E-reader curriculum in year one to make improvements to this revised curriculum for year two of programming. We would like to thank the United States Department of State as the funder and JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI) as the grant manager for the grant under the DREAMS Innovation Challenge that has made GirlsRead! possible. 3 table of contents COPYRIGHT ......................................................... 2 SESSION 6 SESSION 18 ............................................................................... 58 ............................................................................. 136 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...................................... 3 SESSION 7 SESSION 19 OVERVIEW OF GIRLSREAD! .............................. 5 ............................................................................... 65 ............................................................................. 142 BENEFICIARIES .................................................... 6 SESSION 8 ............................................................................... 71 BEFORE THE PROGRAM BEGINS .................... 6 SESSION 9 APPENDIX ......................................................... 148 GENERAL FACILITATION TIPS .......................... 7 ............................................................................... 77 REFERENCES .................................................... 152 E-READER FACILITATION TIPS ........................ 9 SESSION 10 .............................................................................. 84 SESSION STRUCTURE ........................................ 9 SESSION 11 E-READER TROUBLE SHOOTING ................. 10 .............................................................................. 90 SESSION 12 ............................................................................... 96 SESSION 1 SESSION 13 E-Reader Basics, Part I ..................................... 12 ............................................................................. 102 SESSION 2 SESSION 14 E-Reader Basics, Part II .................................... 23 ............................................................................. 110 SESSION 3 SESSION 15 E-Reader Basics, Part III ................................... 33 ............................................................................. 116 SESSION 4 SESSION 16 ............................................................................... 45 ............................................................................. 122 SESSION 5 SESSION 17 ............................................................................... 52 ............................................................................. 129 4 introduction 2. Reinforce and promote attitudes and behaviors that will lead to OVERVIEW OF GIRLSREAD!* a better quality of life for adolescent girls, including increased Zambian adolescent girls are at risk for premature school leaving schooling and reducing bullying, harassment, and sexual coercion. and HIV infection due to a host of contextual factors including child 3. Instill skills among adolescents to enable them to overcome marriage, early childbearing, harmful gender norms, and intimate the challenges of growing up and becoming responsible adults partner violence. including communication skills, decision-making and negotiation, goal setting, and developing healthy relationships. The overall goal of GirlsRead! is to enhance learning and increase progression to secondary school among Zambian adolescent During the second part of the safe space, mentors use this curriculum, girls in grade 7, the last year of primary school. It works in three GirlsRead! E-reader Curriculum, to facilitate sessions that aim to: districts: Lusaka, Ndola, and Chingola which have been targeted 1. Introduce the basic steps of how to use an e-reader and access the by the Determined Resilient Empowered AIDS-free Mentored approximately 100 e-books loaded onto the e-reader. Safe (DREAMS) Core intervention funded by the US President’s 2. Build participants’ reading skills. Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to prevent HIV in 3. Foster participants’ joy of reading. adolescent girls and young women ages 10-24 in 10 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. GirlsRead! is part of the DREAMS Innovation GirlsRead! e-readers Challenge, a US State Department funded initiative working in Each GirlsRead! e-reader includes approximately 100 preloaded conjunction with DREAMS Core to test innovative initiatives in six e-books. Most of the books are fiction, though there are also non- challenge focal areas. GirlsRead! is part of the “Keeping Girls in fiction books such as a world atlas, biographies, and a dictionary. Secondary School” focal area. The majority of books are written by African authors. All books are in English, because English is the language of instruction and the Through GirlsRead!, Population Council, together with FAWEZA and language of the grade 7 exam that determines secondary school Worldreader are aiming to improve school retention by bolstering girls’ placement. learning outcomes, furthering social connections, improving critical thinking skills, increasing agency, and fostering community norms After girls and their parents or guardians sign a contract about e-reader supportive of girls’ schooling. GirlsRead! participants meet in groups of care, theft, and loss, girls keep their e-readers for the duration of the 15-20 girls in weekly meetings called safe spaces under the guidance program. They take the e-readers home and they keep them over of a female mentor. The safe spaces are broken up into two parts with school breaks. In some cases (this happens only rarely) parents may two different curricula. not agree to the terms of the contract and in such cases the school or mentor holds the e-reader for the girl in-between meetings. During the first part of the safe space, mentors use GirlsRead! Girls’ Rights: An Empowerment Curriculum to facilitate sessions that aim to: Continued on next page 1. Increase adolescent girls’ understanding of gender equality, rights, sexual and reproductive health, and HIV. *Sources: Worldreader. 2017. GirlsRead! Zambia E-reader Training Guide: Kindle Paperwhite Model; Worldreader. 2017. GirlsRead! Zambia E-reading Integration Guide. 5 introduction (cont.) Preparing for the e-reader session (this is key!): BENEFICIARIES Practice reading the books in advance of each session. It is much easier GirlsRead! participants are girls in grade 7 – the last year of primary to read aloud, to lead a discussion, and to engage participants when school – when they are at high risk of leaving school. one is familiar with the content of the book. Reading aloud is different