What does World Literacy Initiative want to do?

Its Programs are designed to help improve literacy and basic education throughout the developing world.  It is convinced that one of the very best ways to accomplish this while addressing the many problems seen there is to help people help themselves.  Our programs rely on indigenously provided man and woman power.  World Literacy Initiative provides the technology and guidance.  By helping to reduce the gender gap found in education in so many developing countries a huge step is thereby taken towards achieving so many other solutions.

What is the Gender Gap?

The gender gap refers to the fact that boys outnumber girls increasingly with each additional year of school through high school and college.  The Gender gap influences the capacity of a country to address hunger, poverty, sustainable population growth and many other significant problems that they face.  It is also significantly related to issues affecting the oppression of women throughout the developing world.  Gender gaps are also present in employment, politics and personal freedoms.  Malawi, Namibia, and Ethiopia for instance all have substantial gender gaps in their societies.  However, the school’s teaching methods and other arrangements controlled by the schools can affect these areas of life both directly as well as indirectly.

What is Needed?

According to the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group (IEG, 2005), greater focus on learner outcomes is most desirable at this time in order to build and sustain quality education.  In order to accomplish this, instructional methods will have to be significantly more effective.

Are there methods Really more effective than the others?

Fortunately, these methods - Evidence Based methods - already exist.  And, they can be made available - but only with your help.

What are these methods?

This collection of particularly effective teaching methods and arrangements is called Evidence Based Methods of Instruction or EBMI.  Whatever the name, small unit size, repeatable opportunities to engage the curriculum, immediate knowledge of results feedback, continuous (both formative and summative) assessment, and simple motivational arrangements characterize these methods – the same ones successful parents used to teach us how to dress and the same that are used in apprenticeship models!  EBMI works!  See how.

Why EBMI?
EBMI has been empirically shown over the past 40 years of study to be exceptionally effective.  In fact, EBMI is more effective than both traditional and 'progressive' teaching approaches regardless of subject matter, student preparation, or grade.
Equally, EBMI is highly portable, it requires no high tech platform for its effective use (e.g., like computers), it can be easily shared, and if these were not by themselves sufficient, EBMI is free!
Why has EBMI taken so long to 'catch on'?
Mulanje Mountain Range As seen from about 45 Km west in the southern region of Malawi (July, 2004).	While it is difficult to say with certainty why things like this happen, it is clear that other major advances in other fields have at times taken an unexpectedly long period to become popularly employed.  Examples abound including ·      Surgeons washing hands before surgery in medicine, ·      Use of mass-produced interchangeable parts in industry, ·      Contour plowing and crop rotation in agriculture, ·      Use of seat-belts and sun screen lotions in self-help/self-care, and ·      Use of oral rehydration therapy to combat fluid and loss of salts due to diarrhea, cholera, and dysentery in emergent self-treatment of disease

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