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Government School Adoption Program
Term I Progress Report
June – August, 2012
Prepared September 15, 2012
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Executive Summary
Overall progress summary
Government School Adoption Program Events Summary – Ending Sept. 3, 2012
DISTRICT Coimbatore Dharmapuri Salem
Grand Total
BLOCK
Thonda- muthur
Perur Penna-garam
Nallam-palli
Panamarathupati
Schools adopted 7 7 6 6 5 31
Total Students 6105 2894 5890 7275 3679 25843
Isha Teachers 10 17 55 42 12 136
Remedial Students 1015 740 692 652 371 3470
Yoga class beneficiaries 885
464
1920
1649
894
5812
Students
Teachers 44 49 22 115
Schools reached 6 5 6 6 4 27
Magic English - Teachers trained
23
48
17 88
Health screening camp: student attendance
103 165
268
Health awareness camp: student attendance
164 823 987
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1st Quarter Events (June – Aug 2012):
Schools re-opened after summer vacation on June 1, 2012, and the following events occurred
during the first quarter:
Teacher Recruitment & Orientation in Salem Postings were advertised in daily newspapers
133 people applied for the posts and 123 were interviewed
37 were shortlisted and out of that, 14 teachers were recruited
The recruitment number was calculated based on the number of expected remedial
students
On July 17, an orientation training about Isha and the GSAP program was held by Mr.
Boopathy, Mr. Palanivelkannan and Mr. Subramaniam
Orientation & Training for Teachers
A two-day training for teachers was conducted in Dharmapuri on June 5th and 6th, with
Shri. Thirunavukarasu CEO (R), an Isha volunteer, as the resource person
Another was held in Coimbatore on June 7th and 8th with Shri. Kaliyappan SSA Co-
ordinator (R) as the resource person.
Topics included: Role of the Teacher, Project Updates, Plans and Overview of ABL & ALM
methodologies
In addition, Shri. Boopathy held sessions on “Conveying messages” and “Learning through
fun games”
Teacher Training on ABL Methodology
On August 24 – 25, Remedial Coaching Training for Tamil and Maths was held for Isha
teachers at Vageeswari Vidhyala Matric Hr. Sec. school in Reddipatti, Salem
12 project teachers from 4 schools participated in the training program
Mr.Ranganathan - RMSA-ADPC, was the resource person and also guided the
organization of the program
The training sessions were supported by:
o 6 Block Resource Training teachers
o 2 Elementary school Practicing teachers
o 2 teachers from Vageeswari Vidhyala Matric Hr. Sec.school in Reddipatti and
their students
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The first day of training reviewed Tamil teaching techniques with demonstrations,
inspirational speeches, and motivational video clippings. The training covered the following
topics:
o Teacher’s roles and responsibilities and the importance of a teacher’s job
o How to be with the children/students
o Teaching approach and its techniques - demo with student participation
o Tamil syllabus - ABL card usages, level fixing, letters introducing method, words
creation, reading and writing methods and evaluation
o Targets, action plan with time line
o Preparation of Learning leader and students learning evaluation/achievement chart
o 2 books on Tamil remedial teacher's guide were given by Correspondent of
Vageeshwari Vidhyalaya to all our project teachers.
The second day of training for Maths remedial coaching included the following sessions:
o Mrs.Karthihajothi and Maths teacher - Vageeshwari Vidhyalaya explained how to
introduce shapes, numbers and quantities, zero concepts, and simple addition and
subtraction with self-learning Maths kits. They conducted a demo with the
participation of their class students
o Mr.Ranganathan explained the eight types of hurdles/milestones in teaching Maths
to a student. He showed a motivational film for Maths and also taught:
o CPA (Concrete Pictorial Abstract approach) technique for Maths teaching,
demonstrating the Maths teaching methods with kits and teaching aids
o Place value introduction by 3 ways, Numeric values and simple +,-,x,/ intro
by 7 ways.
o Big/difficult basic calculation methods
o Target and time line
Due to lack of time, it was announced that the Maths session will be completed during a
one day training program to be scheduled in Oct 2012.
The program was concluded by planning the target for the succeeding month, i.e. all
teachers will introduce all Tamil letters and place values, simple addition, subtraction,
multiplication and division in Maths. The progress will be monitored on a weekly basis by
Mr. Subramanium and by the HM of the respective school, and on a monthly basis by Mr.
Boopathy and Mr. Ranganathan.
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Remedial Class
Students were assessed based on their reading and writing abilities. Based on the
assessment, the slow learners are separated from regular class and given remedial
coaching. Students for remedial classes have been identified from 6th to 9th Standard for
Tamil and Maths in all three districts as follows:
Table 1: Students for remedial class (Overall)
District
Remedial for Boys Girls Total
Coimbatore (6th to 9th) Tamil & Maths 472 329 801
Maths only 249 188 437
Tamil only 294 223 517
Dharmapuri (6th to 9th) Tamil & Maths 783 569 1344
Salem (6th to 8th) Tamil only 205 166 371
Diagram 1: Students identified for Tamil remedial class (by standard)
578 587
519
109
9
316
252279
497
106
183
135
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
6th 7th 8th 9th 10th
Coimbatore
Dharmapuri
Salem
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Spoken English Classes
Spoken English class using Karadi path and Magic English (ME) methodology was
started. Teachers were given one day training. Mrs.Hani, Resource person in ME and
Mr.Anbu ME Trainer for our project conducted the training. 23 teachers in Coimbatore
and 48 teachers in Dharmapuri are trained to conduct the session. In Salem, 13 Isha
teachers and 4 regular teachers were attended the training. The session included
topics on Karadi path and ME methodology, various paths used and mock sessions in
which teachers got opportunity to get practical inputs and clarification.
Baseline assessment on current students’ status in understanding, reading and writing
English language was completed in all the schools. The classes will be started from
Oct 2012.
Phase I of the spoken English classes with a total of 72 sessions, will happen for 6th &
7th standard students. It is scheduled to have 3 sessions in a week in regular school
hours. Class materials were distributed to all the schools.
Yoga programs
Three-day Yoga Classes for 10th standard students were conducted in 12 schools in
Dharmapuri, 11 schools in Coimbatore and four schools in Salem. Similar classes were
conducted for other standards based on the students’ strengths and availability.
Patangasana, Shisupalasana, Surya Namaskar and Isha Kriya were taught.
Table 2: Student attendance in yoga program
District Boys Girls Total
Coimbatore 710 639 1,349
Dharmapuri 1,884 1,685 3,569
Salem 429 566 995
Grand Total 3,023 2,890 5,913
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Yoga classes for teachers were aslso conducted at the Isha Yoga Center in Salem.
Patangasana, Shisupalasana, Surya Namaskar and Isha Kriya were offered in the one-day
program. Project teachers along with regular teachers participated in the class.
Table 3: Yoga program for teachers - attendance
Green School Movement
The Greencorp co-ordinator and two students from each school participated in a
training program conducted by Project GreenHands as part of its GreenSchool
Movement. 13 schools out of our 14 adopted schools participated in this training and
received 2000 covers and required seeds to start the nursery.
Healthcare programs
As part of ARR’s 10th year celebration, Health & hygiene awareness camps were
conducted in Coimbatore schools. The same was conducted in our adopted 4 schools
which reached 987 students and 32 teachers
Special events
During the Independence Day celebration, as Isha’s contribution – 66 tree saplings are
distributed and Sadhguru message is given to all 31 schools. Local volunteers
represented Isha in the schools. During the event, our program was recognized and
appreciated. Volunteers took responsibility of regularly visiting the schools and giving
moral support to the students.
District
Regular Teachers
Project Teachers Total
Coimbatore N/A N/A N/A
Dharmapuri 25 68 93
Salem 10 12 22
Grand Total 35 80 115
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Issues & Solutions:
In Coimbatore, remedial classes have been started in 14 schools; they have not been
started in Devarayapuram, Alandurai and Narasipuram schools because of the
unavailability of Isha Teachers. Discussions took place regarding collaborating with
various Teachers from training institutes in Coimbatore.
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Plans for Term II (Sept – Dec 2012)
Remedial classes for Maths and Tamil
Conduct regular spoken English classes, as scheduled
Recruit an additional four teachers and one sports coach
Implement sports programs
Yoga programs for students and teachers
Refresher training for teachers
Support schools in assessing blood group for students
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Snapshots
ABL Teacher
Training to
handle remedial
classes
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Magic English Teacher
Training
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Yoga Program for
Teachers
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Yoga
program
for
Students