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| SSK teachers in the Mathematic training |
Back ground:
In 2004, Swanirvar gave major drive to
improve the quality teaching in Govt Primary schools.Our initial objective was
to identify the innovative teachers and giving trainings to them so that after that
there would be a network of innovative teachers. These teachers would impart
trainings in future. With our consistent efforts some of the teachers became
very efficient and started doing many experiments in their schools.
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| Hand held training on TLM use. |
In August, 2011 some of the innovative
teachers who got regular inputs from us and 3 SSK supervisors met with our
staff trainer – Prosanto and Gopal. They requested them for training cum workshop
on English teaching. They also added that all the teachers met together four
times on a month in their monthly meetings, most of the time they attended that
meeting and there had administrative discussions but there was no discussion on
teachers training and quality improvement of schools. These teachers also
persuaded their union-leaders to draw the attentions of the higher officials.
On September, 2011 Gopal and Prosnato sit with the – BDO, Deganga, Shiksha
Karmadhakya (people’s representative in charge of Education), Samity Education
Officer, 3 SSK Super visors, Teacher’s- Union leaders and it was decided that
all the SSK teachers would get trainings from us and also Swanirvar would do
regular follow up and monitoring in those schools. English Training was given
to 60 SSK Teachers on 15th September, 2011 and 28th
September, 2011 for the classes I &II.
After these trainings our trainers
Julkalam , Gopal and others went for follow up visits. Their main intension was
to access the changes in Classroom management, trainings, pedagogy etc after
the trainings.
They
found the following changes in the SSKs:
·
One
of the teachers from each school participated in the two day English Training session.
She shared her learning to others.
·
Though
the English training was for the students of class I&II, some of the
teachers who took classes only in Class-III & IV were unable implement
their learning in the classes. They requested their school authority /
supervisor so that they could teach English for the students of class-I &
II.
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Presently
the students were using more social languages and instructions in the
classrooms.
·
A
few teachers found very innovative during the training session/ TLM workshops and
were encouraged to develop new TLMs by our supervisors and trainers. Some of
them had developed interesting TLMs and had applied them in the classes.
Recently
Govt of West Bengal had changed the syllabus of class –I to IV. All the schools
had received new books. Most of the SSK teachers told us that new Mathematics
books for class-III & IV were very hard for the students. They also were
facing many problems to give lessons from those books. They also requested us to organize a TLM workshop as they did not have
any TLMs which could be used along with new books.
Problems:
- · They could not properly use of Carry over on Subtraction.
- · Some problem to use of Numta / numeric table
- · The concept of LCF and HCF were not clear to some the teachers.
- · Some problem to understand prime and Compound numbers
- · The concept of factor was not clear
On 8th May, 2012 a
workshop on Mathematic for class –III & IV was organized at the Dakshin
Kaliani SSK . 18 teachers from 6 SSKs were participated. They were given
extensive trainings on – LCF, HCF, Table, Prime & Compound no, factors, subtraction,
addition etc. They were given hand held training to use TLMs in the classroom. At
the end of the trainings the teachers requested us to organize a TLM workshop
so that they could make TLMs for their schools. The teachers were amazed with
the trainings and also bear the Tiffin expenses by their own. Some of the
teachers expressed that it was the first time in their service life that they
were taking trainings on a Govt holiday (8th May was holiday in West
Bengal) and also bearing the training cost from their own pocket. We are also
looking for a positive outcome form that training.
Our
trainer, Julkalam and Gopal were regularly visiting these schools and assisting
the trained teachers in implementing the methodology/ techniques in the classroom. Reported by:
Sri Prosanto Mondal
Supervisor
Wishing success of the effort of Swanirbhar in primary education. They designed the course following participatory appraisal. It is nice to find that they paid attention to design the TLM. TLM is the keytool of Sarva Shiksha Mission.
ReplyDeleteOne of the important issue not discussed here is performing art based education. It is a challenging task to design the course in association with performing art. Like TLM, the course should be based on local needs so that course can be sustainable.
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