Hello all,
i work for Pratham in Rajasthan, the organisation that started Read India Initiative. it is exciting to see that so many other org and individulas have joined the initiative and made this happen.
it is very exciting to read the comments made so far!!!
would like to share with you some exp on teachers motivation.
initially we were giving the training at Cluster level during one of the monthly meetings. we realised during the course that the required teacher was not coming and the training was being given to HM alone.
second, since it was just a training teachers thought it to be another burden and results can be imagined.
what we did next time onwards is in-school training or what some would say - on site training. here, we would showcase the teacher as to how to use the cards, other reading material and slowly when students get engrossed and start reading what-ever text they want, teachers get interested and get involved!
it is vital to showcase the methodology by doing it yourself and making a person believe that yes it works. only then, we, the humans tend to get excited and join the change and become agent of change. we found that teachers were then quiet forthcoming since they saw how easily things can happen and that it is not a burden.
as in the Lead India TV campaign, there are so many of us who are ready to chip in with their effort, all that we need to do is to take the initiative and commit ourselves for it first.
Thanks,
Rishi
--- On Thu, 1/29/09, prabhu govindarajan <prabhu.govvindarajan@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: prabhu govindarajan <prabhu.govvindarajan@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [India_Vision_2020] Read India initiative
> To: India_Vision_2020@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009, 4:51 PM
> Hi I am no educationist , but when i digressed into the
> problem.I had few
> suggestions and like to share with all, Obviously all this
> can be debated
> 1.I see a lot of automation can be done on school records ,
> mark sheets and
> attendance (Where most of the time spent by the teacher in
> doing the paper
> work)
> 2.Recognition of teachers at district level for innovative
> and other
> remarkable procedures ( i felt it should be done through a
> NGO)
> 3.Access of Internet to staff / with materials to
> share,read and solve their
> solutions.
> 4.And at the top of it , the staff of my dad's
> generation was role model but
> today's teacher is just another way to learn my book
>
> Cheers
>
> Prabhu.G
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Joseph Francis
> <joedhi_9@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear Mr Sathish,
> >
> > I appreciate the efforts of BLOSSOM to support the
> ABLM. It is very much
> > needed to prove that ABLM could be one of the measures
> to provide quality
> > education to rural and poor children who rely only on
> Govt. schools.
> >
> > Thanks for your services.
> >
> > Joseph
> > Chennai
> > 9444845750
> >
> > --- On *Thu, 29/1/09, Sathish
> <sathishsp@gmail.com>* wrote:
> >
> > From: Sathish <sathishsp@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [India_Vision_2020] Read India initiative
> > To: India_Vision_2020@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Thursday, 29 January, 2009, 10:40 AM
> >
> > Hi friends,
> >
> > I would like to add my views also. The survey is more
> than 100% true in
> > our experience with few Govt. schools in virudunagar
> dt and Madurai
> > district. As prabhu said ABL is a new method
> introduced some 4 years back in
> > Govt. schools of Tamilnade step by step. It is
> creating some drastic
> > improvement in the education quality and the students
> interest in coming to
> > schools. The only drawback is there is no sufficient
> teacher for handling
> > the ABL. The awarness and the materials are not upto
> the mark. Still it will
> > take few more years to reach.
> >
> > With our (Blossom) educational project- QUEST, we are
> working in few
> > governement schools for improving the very basic
> English reading and
> > arithmetic calculations. Hope we will get some
> positive results in few
> > months. We planend to appoint few additional staffs to
> these schools to get
> > the flow faster. Sure we will share the things once we
> can see some positive
> > progress. And on the positive side ...nowadays we can
> see some serious
> > initiatives by SSA and Tamilnadu Educational minister
> on improving the Govt
> > schools. And on the other positive side the Head
> masters of the Govt schools
> > are very helpful and interested in improving the
> students education quality.
> > They gives us complete freedom to work with them.
> >
> > Lets hope for the best and let us bring the changes
> along with the govt.
> >
> > Sathish,*
> > Blossom Foundation. *
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:07 PM, prabhu govindarajan
> <prabhu.govvindaraja
> > n@gmail.com <prabhu.govvindarajan@gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi
> >> I like to share something on this.Tamilnadu
> state government have
> >> started a new style of teaching called the
> activity based learning.I heard
> >> that this improves the problem of reading(A
> experiment by a aidindia have
> >> seen improve by as much as 80 %) .I heard from
> some of the teachers that
> >> this is giving good results.If you want data i
> would get it.This is a kind
> >> of system where the kids learn themselves with
> help from the teacher(As i
> >> could understand).http://www.ssa. tn.nic.in/
> CurrActivities-
> A.htm<http://www.ssa.tn.nic.in/CurrActivities-A.htm>
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Prabhu.G
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Leena Guram
> <leena.guram@ yahoo.com<leena.guram@yahoo.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Friends,
> >>>
> >>> You all must already be aware of this
> initiative (Sorry for sending
> >>> again)
> >>>
> >>> The Problem:
> >>> A survey to assess the current Status of
> Education (ASER 2006) was
> >>> conducted in 28 states in India in the months
> of October and November. One
> >>> of the key findings of this survey was that in
> Std V, 47% children could not
> >>> even read a Std II text fluently.
> Specifically,
> >>>
> >>> - In Std I, 38.2% cannot read alphabets and
> 53.7% cannot identify
> >>> numbers
> >>> - In Std II, 76.7% cannot read Std I text,
> and 75.0% cannot do
> >>> subtraction
> >>> - In Std V, 47.0% cannot read Std II text,
> and 54.6% cannot do
> >>> division.
> >>>
> >>> ASER 2006 indicates that half of all children
> in the country start
> >>> lagging behind in Std I and continue to lag
> behind in the achievement of
> >>> expected competencies in Std III, and Std V.
> >>>
> >>> The Solution Pratham has launched the Read
> India campaign aimed at
> >>> achieving reading and arithmetic proficiency
> for all children in the country
> >>> within and outside the school system. The
> focus will be on:
> >>>
> >>> - Std I-II : alphabets/words and
> numbers/place value level
> >>> - Std III-V: fluent reading, writing and
> solving arithmetic problems.
> >>>
> >>> Higher standards are not excluded, but will
> not be the primary focus.
> >>>
> >>> Website of read India - http://www.readindi
> a.org/<http://www.readindia.org/>
> >>>
> >>> In case you are interested in teaching in
> Mumbai:
> >>> http://www.readindi a.org/read_ india_reach/
> teach_mumbai.
> htm<http://www.readindia.org/read_india_reach/teach_mumbai.htm>
> >>>
> >>> In case you are interested in teaching in
> Delhi:
> >>> http://www.readindi a.org/read_ india_reach/
> teach_delhi.
> htm<http://www.readindia.org/read_india_reach/teach_delhi.htm>
> >>>
> >>> (Lost link for another state)
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Leena
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Thanks & Regards
> > Sathish
> >
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