Seenaryo Playkit

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The Seenaryo Playkit is an app and training that allows teachers of 3 to 8 year olds to deliver their curriculum through 100s of games, songs, interactive stories and classroom management ideas. The app hosts time-lapse videos, music tracks, flashcards and step-by-step instructions – all in Arabic, English and French. There is an optional, accompanying 3-day training.

The Playkit is currently used in Lebanon and Jordan, the two countries which host the highest number of refugees per capita. This has strained an education system that was struggling even before the crisis. The chief concern governments find in school is the ‘unskilled teaching force’ (Jordan Response Plan), which uses outdated pedagogy, ‘not as learner-centred as industry standards require’(Lebanon’s ‘RACE II’). Furthermore, ECE is ‘seen to be the least skilled age, not attracting quality teachers’ (Mary Anoushadian, Caritas), despite the fact that under-8s are repeatedly shown to be at their most vulnerable
whilst also having the capacity to become ‘resilient for life’ (Harvard’s Developing Child Center). The least skilled teachers are therefore working with the most critical age.

The Playkit is used in over 100 schools by 650 teachers, reaching around 16,000 children. The Lebanese Ministry of Education has requested to include the Playkit in their national textbooks while in Jordan, we work with the Queen Rania Teaching Academy (the main public school teacher trainer). Evaluation so far has been extremely positive:

• 94% of teachers agree that children’s learning has improved

• 98% of teachers agree behaviour management is easier

• 97% say hard to reach students are more engaged

Teachers see psycho-social improvement: ‘Thuraiya was always alone. She put her hand in her mouth to avoid talking but now she shares and talks’, and academic progress: ‘Mohammed never participated in numeracy but after picking up the actual numbers, he joins in’.

We sell the Playkit to private schools or large INGOs, while giving ‘bursary trainings’ (from grants) to public schools or local NGOs. In all cases, clients pay the annual teacher subscription ($10/teacher). We therefore reach those most in need while remaining financially sustainable.

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By 2022, we aim to reach 3500 teachers & 90,000 children across 4 countries (adding Iraq and Syria). By 2025, we hope to reach a million children across 10 countries: both those affected by mass migration (e.g. Sudan, Libya) and other countries using the same languages (e.g. UAE, Qatar).

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