Putibandha UGME School, Sambalpur
Date of visit: 22nd November 2011
Time spent: 2 hrs
I started my visit with a discussion with the following teachers:
Gitanjali Sahu
Rajasree Behera
Jaysree Seth
Anandini Mishra
Observations
This school has 6 teachers who are undergoing training in DIET Sambalpur and one of them the HM has undergone 9 days of training. I actually spent time in the school interacting with the HM and some of the selected teachers, taking feed- back on how they felt about the training. As usual they were very positive and satisfied with the way it was being conducted. The only request they made was if they can be provided with some more resources, on topics which were not available in the “Edukit.”
The discussions were followed by a collaborative project on “acid, base and salts” with the class VII students. Although the project was well planned and executed and the students were very interactive, the HM didn’t seem to be very enthusiastic while doing the same and had to be prompted on many counts by Samtanu. A video shoot of the same is available. I did ask some of the students as to whether they are learning computers and how many times a week and their answers seem to be satisfactory. This school like other Upper Primary Schools have content provided by APF and NIIT available with them apart from the Edukit.
A video recording of the classroom transaction is available.
Kirba UP School, Burla, Sambalpur
Date of visit: 22nd November 2011
Time spent: 1.5 hrs hrs
I had a discussion with
Sharmistha Palai
Itishree Badapanda
Kasturi Jena
Observations
Here again I made a classroom observation and the teacher was teaching acid, bases and salt (as per the syllabus) and she did repeat the experiment, using different materials – turmeric paste, lime water, detergent solution and litmus paper (red and blue). This time the teacher, who happens to be a trainee, did display high energy levels and was very enthusiastic and got the students experiment in groups and note down their observations in a sheet, which was prepared earlier. I did not have much of a time to interact with the HM and the teachers as I reached the school late in the afternoon (after reaching from Bhubaneshwar and completing a school visit earlier in the afternoon). It was but evident that the student training was not happening on a very regular basis since the last one month, because of some internal problems between the HM and the teachers and as a result the lab remained locked. The school management committee has since intervened and things are somewhat limping back to normal.
A video recording of the classroom transaction is available.
Cement Nagar High School, Bargarh
Date of visit: 23rd November 2011
Time spent: 4 hrs
My visit started with a discussion with the HM (who is very new to the school as well as the DE Program) and two other teachers as mentioned below:
Jagabandhu Pradhan
Debjivan Kar
Yudhistir Das
Both the teachers have undergone 14 days of training and were full of praise for the way DE training was being conducted. They were of the view that the training experience was unique and none of the training that they had previously attended (including the ones on pedagogy) could match up to the DE training on techno-pedagogy.
I had expressed my desire earlier to the monitoring expert that I wanted to watch a classroom transaction and a collaborative project in the school and what I saw made me feel extremely satisfied, with the work we have been doing. The first transaction was on “Area of a Parallelogram” by Debjivan Kar. He not only had an excellent hold over content but displayed in good measure the skills, imparted as part of the DE training especially critical and creative thinking. The students enjoyed every bit of bit and posed questions as well as answered questions posed by their teacher, confidently. Good use of computers, were made as part of the transaction, especially Edukit. This was followed by a brilliant display of creative teaching skills by Yudhistir Das, who taught the “laws of reflection” to class IX students and seamlessly integrated a collaborative project as part of his overall lesson design. The students conducted the experiment themselves and noted down their observations. The best part of the overall process was the video that was shot capturing the classroom transaction and an interview with teachers and students on what they felt about the program. The video footage needs to be edited and uploaded.
Kadaligarh High School, Redhakhol
Date of visit: 24th November 2011
Time spent: 4 hrs
This school is located at a distance of 85 kms from Sambalpur town. I had a FGD with the following teachers:
Purnima Rani Nayak, HM
Pragyan Parmita Das, Science Teacher
Birendra Kumar Sahoo, Science Teacher
Apart from the above group two other teachers joined us for a while – Sanskrit and English teacher, who are attending training but are unable to make much use of computers because of the subjects they teach do not have much of content available. Pankaj Pati, Monitoring Expert, Sambalpur, assisted the mathematics teacher, Birendra Kumar Sahoo, in demonstrating “origami” as a pedagogic method for teaching traingles. The students participated enthusiastically, by folding their own papers in learning about triangles. Some of them even made a presentation for the entire class. Pragyan Parmita Das, Science Teacher, did a collaborative project on “sound.” I did not have enough time to watch a lab transaction using “Edukit” on the same as we had to visit another school. The students of this school proved to be an intelligent lot and a majority of them I conversed with were pretty much confident in using different computer applications. All the mandatory registers were being maintained in this school.
Video footage of the collaborative project is available.
The last school I visited on my way back was Jujomara ME school and it was very late past 4 pm and the HM and some of the students were waiting for us. We couldn’t watch a lab transaction and only interacted with the HM and the students – a majority of whom said that they attended computer classes regularly, more than four times a week. This school has a very good reputation as far as CAL program (Govt. run) is concerned.
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