Strengthening of Heads
•Heads owns the responsibility of following constructivist approach
of Lesson Planning ,to develop in students the skills of (reference,
research, analysis, synthesis, independent learning and thinking) and
qualities of ( leadership, communication , team-work etc.)(Think It
Over Project, direct outcome of PISA Study)
•The heads along with School Teacher Trainer and team of all
categories of teachers continuously follow-up the processes in the
classrooms.
•He/she Submits grade-wise results of all teachers of term
examinations to check change in learning level of students.
•Heads take their own initiatives to make their institution the best in
terms of establishing school standards in terms of pedagogy, self
assessment and school leadership and management through internal
planning.
Techno Friendly Schools(Portals)
•Making schools techno-friendly through portals(a web-page) giving link to
1. Learning Indicators notified by govt. of H.P.
2. Lesson-plans evolved after piloting in 136 schools
under ‘Think It Over
3. Question Banks
4. Interactive
State Resource
Group
giving
immediate solution to problems faced in schools.
5. Board question papers
6. E-Books
7. NEROER
8. O-LABS
Eco-System Management
Head
PRI +
Depart
ment
Teacher
child
Community
SMC
Self Reliant Schools (Roles)
Heads &
School
Teacher
Trainer
with Team
Catalyst of
Change
Execution of in
school training.
Follow-up and
Feedback of
school
Standards in
pedagogy,and
learning,assess
ment,school
leadership.
Teachers
Designing
Constructivist Lesson
Plan on ‘Think It Over’
Pattern
1. Concept
clarity
(lesson plan).
2. Application
of
Concept(making
things interdisciplinary
and contextual)
3. Strengthening
of
concept ( Questions
on different Levels of
Students
Over all personality
Development
through lesson plan
•
•
Developing skills
(research,referen
ce,analysis,sysnt
hesis
Independent,
learning
and
thinking.
Quality
development
(leadership,com
munication,peargroup learning
Portals
&State
Resource
Group
Links on
Portals
1.Learning
Indicators
2.Lesson Plans
3.Question
Bank
4.Interactive
State Resource
group to solve
in
–school
Problems
5. question
papers etc
In-School Training and meetings by Heads and School Teacher Trainer
Attitudinal Change
• Think it Over Project
•Leadership
• Time Management
• Motivation
Self-reliant schools and teachers
Professional Enrichment in terms of knowledge &
skills in subject matter, Pedagogy & classroom
management and practical –instructional Problems
through mutual discussion during fortnight
meeting in the schools. The presumption is that
every teacher is master of her/his subject and we
only need to plan and channelize their efforts to
become Self- reliant
Possible explorations areas for the teachers
(Think it Over Project)
• Power Point Presentation
• Learning Indicators
• Whole to part ( Gestalt Psychology )
•Active Learning
• Simple to Complex
• Known to unknown
• Mind Mapping
• Learning by doing
Professional development of Heads, STTs and Teachers
•1)Learning Indicators for 9th and 10th (already notified by Govt. of H.P.)
•(2) Lesson Plan (Soft copies prepared by groups of Teachers during Training
programme through Lesson Study method)
•(a)Objectives of the Lesson
• Learning Levels to be achieved after transaction of Lesson
(b)Previous Knowledge Testing and Presentation: Building-up of Knowledge through
questions/activity/Examples:-Concept Building (how ,why, where, what, when, logic /
reason) Learners create their own knowledge.
They are actively engaged in building new knowledge.
They base new knowledge on their experiences and prior knowledge.
On the basis of experience and previous knowledge objects and events are interpreted
•Mind Mapping
•Whole to part ( Gestalt Psychology) ,Active Learning, Simple to Complex, Known to
unknown, Learning by doing
(c)Group activity (Strengthening of concept) detailed learning by students in
groups and by individual students also.
(d)Diagnostic Teaching Learning indicators are to be ensured. Through classroom
assessment.
•(3)Question Bank(application
of concept)
on different level of
learning(memory, understanding, application, analysis, synthesis, creative)and Projects to
correlate students to environment.
History and Problems noticed in teacher trainings
• It has been noticed that during the course of last 10 years
for which the SSA has been operational several
problems/flaws have been noticed regarding teacher’s
training. The important ones of these are;
• The teachers have to remain out of schools and classes for
long time which leads to criticism amongst the community
and also obstructs the learning of children.
• The teachers may not implement the training content they
have learnt during training for various reasons and may not
take additional initiatives other than the content they have
learnt during training.
• The moral of teachers may not remain high, as personal
initiative/leadership does not become apparent in the
present training exercise.
• Trainings do not always support monitoring even though
that is crucial for any project.
Why teacher training in the school in
which they are teaching?
• It has been estimated that the teacher trainings every year
involves lot of cost in terms of time and other resources.
• Due to prolonged absence of teachers many a times the
studies suffer because of lack of continuity and focus and
public criticism is also there .
• Trainings are also not at times conducted properly rather
there is emphasis on completion of targeted mandays
instead of quality.
• The trainings do not give adequate importance to the
personal initiative and drive of the teachers and thus goes
against the principle of leadership and motivation in the
long run.
• There is no reporting in change in learning Level of schools.
Project
• It is intended to make every school a self contained entity where the
training needs of every teacher can be taken care, the required
support if any is provided and at the same time there is proper
convergence with various resource levels of the state.
• The philosophy of Think it over(where teachers sit together to
prepare Lesson Plans on designed format) project is still to continue
but with a slight change in as much as the teachers of different
schools will not get together every time to sort out various learning
related issues, rather in every school there will be one School
Teacher Trainer cum master trainer who will take care of the training
needs of teachers of that school. S/he will provide the necessary
support to the school head in establishing proper teaching-learning
process, self evaluation and monitoring.
• Every school head will hold, with all category of teachers teachers, in
the schools a fortnightly meeting regarding the lesson plans which
are going to be imparted in the coming fortnight focussing mainly on
objectives, presentations, students tasks, question banks ,based on
different learning level such as memory, application, analysis and
creative level as per Think It Over strategy. All will work in team to
get best learning outcome of all students irrespective of any classes.
‘SWAYAMSIDHAM’, a Project for keeping the teachers within
the school for trainings, feedback
• For this meeting the head will be assisted by the
one teacher of the school of him/her choice
(School Teacher Trainer) ,who will coordinate the
meeting.
• In the meeting the lesson plans prepared by the
teachers for transaction during coming fortnight
will be discussed and analyzed and improvements
if any required will be done in the group .
Learning attainment of students would be
analysed. Remedial classes may be taken in hard
areas of learning in any subjects by all the
categories of teachers.
Filtration of the problems
• In these fortnightly meetings the problems
contained in the above mentioned meetings will
be sorted out by the teachers from concerned
school themselves in a group method.
• The head with the active help of the School
Teacher Trainer will separate out those problems
the solutions for which could not be made at the
local level. Those problems will be uploaded at
the portal
• Resource groups at the state level has been
developed ,on the basis of past performance and
training, to provide the required support and
guidance on the portal
http://rmsahimachal.nic.in
A portal for the teachers for problem solving, sharing their
innovations and for regular support and monitoring
• The Portal has been designed in the following
manner:
• Each of the school trainer and the members of
SRG has been assigned a unique ID and password.
• Through this ID and password, the heads shall
login the portal and submit the information
regarding problem/questions at the school level.
• The potal is dynamic.The SRG would provide the
solution.
Portal
contd
• This portal has been designed in such a way that
all the members of SRG and ICT-equipped
schools and all Edu.Deptt. employees can see
the contents in the portal and through their login-tab are able to insert their suggestions or
solutions.
• There is facility of likes and dislikes of the
answers.
RESEARCH –CUM-TRAINING WORKSHOP
OF HEADS AND SCHOOL TEACHER
TRAINER UNDER SWAYAMSIDHAM
PROJECT IN
AS
A FOLLOW UP
5
628 ICTSHOOLS
DAYS TRAINING,THE
HEADS
SCHOOL TEACHERS OF ICT EQUIPPED
SCHOOLS, WERE ASKED TO SUBMIT A REPORT
CONTAINING CLASS WISE, SUBJECT WISE,
GRADE WISE LEARNING LEVELS OF 9TH AND
10TH CLASSES AS PER FIRST TERM (BEFORE
TRAINING) AND SECOND TERM EXAMS (AFTER
TRAINING) CONDUCTED BY SCHOOL.
AND
Performa circulated to all ICT enabled schools
(to be sent to DIETs in both Signed Image copy & soft ms-excel copy. DIETs further
consolidate the data and ensure the delivery of signed copies of the each school performa)
Over all Average Achievement of Students
Performance in Test-1 and Test-2 (5 districts)
District Average No.
of Students
80-100%
A-Grade
65 -79 %
B-Grade
T-1
T-2
T-1
T-2
50-64%
C-Grade
T-1
T-2
35-49%
D-Grade
T-1
T-2
0-34%
E-Grade
T-1
T-2
Kangra
15933
2.25
2.77
4.60 6.66 9.58 12.29 20.34 23.52
62.83 54.18
Sirmour
Mandi
5008
11159
1.83
2.38
2.33
3.16
4.85 6.31 9.40 11.70 18.98 18.93
5.39 6.21 11.24 11.79 22.31 23.72
64.93 56.10
58.69 55.09
Solan
5516
1.50
1.85
4.02 5.78 8.79 11.13 19.21 23.54
66.48 57.70
Una
7000
2.51
3.57
6.17 6.92 12.25 11.86 20.24 22.65
58.75 54.71
kullu
11126
2.38
3.16
5.39
6.21 11.24 11.79 22.31 23.72
58.69 55.09
55742
2.14
2.81
5.07 6.35 10.42 11.76 20.57 22.68
61.73 55.48
Advantages:
• No movement of the teachers outside the school would
help in avoiding public criticism due to long absence of
teachers in connection with teachings.
• Teachers will themselves take initiative in problem
solving and develop leadership skill for praising good
quality instructions to the students . They will become
techno-friendly also
• Involvement of head/SRG/Dy. Directors/DPO’s and
higher authority in whole exercise will help the training
the shift towards quality. The responsibility of the
administrators for quality can be fixed.
• As the teachers will try to solve their problems through
group approach the same will develop their capacities
through inquiry and analyses.
OUTCOMES
•Onsite support to teachers
•Effective use of ICT
•Enhancement of Teacher’s capacity for academic planning
•Effective implementation of Learning Indicators
•It is to establish the pedagogical ,learning,assessment and school leadership
management standards by in school planning
•Online support of SRG to teachers and students through web portal
•Capacity building of Resource group through continuous engagement with teachers
in the classroom.
•All the learning resources are now available in the school in the form of learning
indicators , Lesson Plans, Big Question banks based on different levels of learning
,onsite continuous support by SRG, web portal,
• It is a site developed excusively by the teachers and for the teachers to
enhance their creativity and innovation to adopt the methods to get best
learning outcome in the schools.