4th Resource Group Team Workshop Sambalpur and Bargarh Dist

The 4th Resource Group Team Workshop for Sambalpur and Bargarh Dist was held on 09th Nov 2012 and 08th Nov 2012 at respective zonal centers. The trainer, PMIASE, Sambalpur, had designed a teaching aid  based on "Respiration" that was demonstrated to the participants as an example towards demonstration of effective integration of technology. The same was supported by a lesson cum micro lesson plan and was designed aesthetically, so that the same procedure could be adopted for integrating technology at school level by the participants having expertise on the concerned subject. The participants had a chance to design teaching aids (TLM) in groups and came  forward to demonstrate the same once it was over. The meetings seemed quite interesting, as lots of questions were posed and answered with passion and zing.

7th Resource group team workshop of Ganjam & Gajapati Dist.

The 7th Resource group team workshop of Ganjam & Gajapati Dist, was held on 16th Nov' 2012 at DPIASE, Berhampur. The participants included a total number of six teachers from selected schools having expertise in Geography. The Operations Director, AIFT, Odisha attended the meeting presided by Sri Prasad Kumar Rana, AAO, office of DEO, Ganjam.  The meeting was organized with an objective to demonstrate effective integration of technology along with key concepts selected based on hard spots pertaining to "Rotation and Revolution" for students of grade 6th . The presentation was followed by a lesson plan and Micro lesson plan on the same topic. The meeting happened to be quite eventful as we faced a lot of questions and riddles though the same set of teachers, who were teaching the topic for near about a decade. The basic nuances of the topic were discussed that would be really difficult to explain students in the absence of technology said the teachers. Taking it forward a link has been generated and has been sent across to the respective members who participated in the meeting to post their queries through Google groups so that things can be made simple yet meaningful for making learning fun!   

Indian Schools lacking teachers and textbooks are turning into khan academy for their survival

There is an interesting link to be shared with the readers to make them aware about the Indian Schools turning into Khan Academy. The detailed information can be gained from the link below.

http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/lacking-teachers-and-textbooks-indias-schools-turn-to-khan-academy-to-survive/.

Munmun Singh.
Training Coordinator, DE.
AIFT.

Baijayant Panda visit to DCC, Stewart School.

Baijayant Panda, Hon'ble Member of Parliament, paid a visit to Stewart School Bhubaneswar on August 2^nd of 2012. This was planned as part of a documentary shoot on his life. He is now the active 15^th Loksabha MP from Kendrapada and partner for IMFA. He did his schooling from Stewart School, Bhubaneswar. He also paid a visit to the CB and Pushpa Jain Centre for technology, admired the effective usage of the lab and inquired as to how the lab has been helping the teachers in understanding the cutting edge advantage of techno pedagogy in teaching learning process. He interacted with students, if they enjoy doing projects in the lab to make learning simple and fun. He was exulted with the feedback received and appreciated the state of the art technology being used to develop the 21st century skills among children.

Teacher's Day Competition

To commemorate teacher's day in the DE Schools spread over all the six districts, AIFT organized an essay competition, focusing on the various aspects of "What do DE School students think about their teachers and the perception of Teacher's day". The essay competition was open to students belonging from 6th to 10th grade. The total number of schools that took part were 96, out of which, 42 are Upper Primary and 52 are Higher Secondary. Among the participants from different classes, 1/2 best performer were evaluated and were given the opportunity to read their write-ups in the assembly.

Review-Cum-Refresher at Gopalpur, Sept,2012

A three day review cum refresher workshop was held in Gopalpur on 21/09/12 through 23/09/12. During the workshop MIS analysis of the DE Odisha team members was looked upon. The workshop was organized in the Pelican conference hall of Swosti Palm Resort, Goplapur. A presentation based on the updated status of the DE program was made by the respective zonal representatives as part of the 3 day meeting. The primary focus of the meeting was to design teaching aids to demonstrate effective integration of technology while executing lesson Plans that could be worked out at school level. In order to achieve the objective, team members worked in groups on topics selected from the updated syllabus for the month of October, in a bid to bring standardization, in the quality of outputs indicators at the school level. Eventually some of the high quality teaching aids and lesson plans were presented by the team members. Asst. Dir. MIS, SSA, Sri Prabhat Mishra and District Project Coordinator, SSA, Ganjam, Sri Aswini Mishra presided over the workshop during the final day and  expressed their consent as far as the serious and ideal steps being taken to impact the students learning outcomes in a positive way at the school level.

District Level Steering Committee Meeting for the month of September

The District level steering committee meeting for all the six districts (three zones) was organized during the month of Sept'2012. The meetings were chaired by the respective DEO's/ AAO's. A status update on training at resource centers and performance on the output indicators at school levels were provided by the DE team members as part of the meeting.