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| Chandra in the class |
For the last few years, Swanirvar is working with Govt. Primary school teachers. With our continuous support and trainings, some of the Govt teachers are now showing extra ordinary performances in their schools and some of them have became master trainers!
Chandra Ganguli Mondal, a teacher of Jashikati FP School has started her career as an ordinary teacher. She joined in her service in 1998 and doing routine classroom teaching. In 2002, she met Mr. Amal Krishna Dutta, an innovative primary school teacher and recipient of Presidential Aware for innovative teaching. She was motivated by him but did not receive any training on teaching till 2005. In 2005, she met our primary supervisor, Prosanto Mondal in a seminar cum TLM workshop hosted by Swanirvar on Mathematics for class-I&II. In that workshop, she learnt about the utility of TLMs in classroom and also made a number of TLMs and got some ideas to deals with weak and disable children.
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| Learning with TLMs |
In, June, 2006 she received a training of English teaching for the Dept. of Primary Education, Govt. of West Bengal and that training module was designed by Ray Macow. In, Dec, 2006, she met M. Flannagan(a retired British school teacher working for Swanirvar) in Swanirvar and got extensive inputs on English for class-I-IV. Gradually, she got training cum orientation in the following subjects, Language, Mathematics, Environmental Science, Classroom Management, sahitya sabha, children committee etc.
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| Wall painting |
Now, she has introduced many types of children committees in her schools also her children are now hosting special days, like 15th August, 23rd January, Rakhi etc and organizing Sahitya Sabha and running library in the school. All the walls of the school are pained by the children. Always, they are using TLMs and playing with colours.
Initially, she was criticized by her colleagues and higher authorities but now she is supported not only by her colleagues but also SIS, Dipankar Karmakar patronizes her. For the last three years (2008-10), she is giving inputs as a master trainer in Baduria North Circle. She is also trying to introduce cultural activities, like recitation, drama, dancing, singing in the classroom.
Reported By,
Prosanto Mondal
Primary Education Department, Swanirvar
Chanda had taken training from our West Bengal govt. not only once. She had been taking L2( English language) training since 2006.In the matter of Teaching learning material Swanirvar & Govt. of westbengal are same.
ReplyDeleteBut in he matter(methodology) of introducing L2 govt. of West Bengal is quite different. Chanda welknown about it & she had taken thrise these type training from Govt of West Bengal. Govt. has taken a help of UK educationist D. Ray Mackay. Mrs Magi once came in our workshop & she had known about it. The methodology is explain in my blog topic-"waste" www.mdnjs.blogspot.com