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Teacher empowerment: Two-day programme begins in Lucknow
DEVI Sansthan to impart sessions on FLN solutions to 1,200 government teachers from 200 schools from three districts of Uttar Pradesh
The global, non-profit DEVI Sansthan launched a one-of-a-kind teacher empowerment programme at City Montessori School, LDA, Kanpur Road auditorium, on Monday.
The two-day programme imparts practical sessions to government school teachers on boosting FLN (foundational literacy and numeracy) outcomes using principles of a disruptive FLN pedagogy ALfA or Accelerating Learning for All developed by Dr Sunita Gandhi, founder, DEVI Sansthan.
The first day of the programme witnessed the participation of 200 government schools of Lucknow, Unnao and Barabanki districts of Uttar Pradesh. The selected schools are from the remotest areas of the, a CMS release read. They have the greatest enrollment and highest student to teacher ratios, and hence the most challenging.
Immediately following the training, the schools will devote just one period per day to implement this pedagogy for the next 30-45 days outside of holidays that remain between now and the close of the academic session, at the end of March.
In a research design, the improvement will be measured scientifically between pre and post tests and those in the treatment versus control group of schools. In a similar attempt in Shamli, the results have been quite remarkable within 45 days, the release read.
A special attraction of the day was listening to five teachers from Shamli who have been implementing ALfA since the end of August. They shared their encouraging success stories.
Arvind Kumar Baliyan who teaches Class 2 in Primary School Kairi said that he has 70 students in his class. Most of them could read, write and do basic numeracy after just 45 instructional days. The children could read their own textbooks and understand them. They were posing questions to each other, and today, they are all working beyond the NIPUN goals. Such inspiring success stories have also been shared by the other government school teachers from Shamli where the programme expanded from 10 to 210 schools after a few weeks of implementation.
“DEVI Sansthan was approached by the Union ministry of education, to implement its FLN Solution ALfA in two of the low-performing districts of India, Shamli in Uttar Pradesh and Sambalpur in Odisha. Besides in-person training, DEVI is all set to train the nation’s teachers in free MOOT or Massive Open Online Training, to greatly amplify the impact of its pedagogy,” Sunita Gandhi was quoted as saying.
“Despite the hard work by teachers, the improvement in FLN levels is not dramatic.”
