This app is a ‘one-stop shop’ for Early Childhood Development Centre
The app is being developed by GROW Educare in Glenwood.
A GLENWOOD Early Childhood Development Centre (ECD) has recently developed an app to assist ECD teachers.
The KZN project manager for GROW Educare, which is based in Glenwood, Tara Rosser, describes the management app as a ‘one-stop shop’ for ECD centres.
“The app is a boon for ECD owners who can accomplish a multitude of activities from a single device: paperless administration; parent communication; finance management; attendance registers; teacher competency and learner assessments … and a lot more,” she said.
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GROW Educare is working with non-profit organisation The Domino Foundation to train the ECD centre owners and educators in the effective use of the app.
Domino’s education co-ordinator, Nicky Walton, said, “Now, with our field workers qualified as mentors and growing daily in their grasp and understanding of how the app functions and in all that it offers to the ECD practitioner, we have the capacity to focus on the educational needs of all 64 centres we work with.”
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The staff at the centres are being trained in using the app by Domino’s six field workers who rotate through all 64 centres in a two-week cycle.
“This is really healthy mutually beneficial partnership in action: Domino is ‘sharing’ its beneficiaries with GROW so they can build quality early education centres … and our ECD centres are reaping the rewards of children who are being thoroughly prepared for Grade One in well-run centres,” said Walton.
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