<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Guru</div><div><br></div>A few suggestions...<br><div></div><div>1. The most important thing may be to work on the element of trust between children and teachers, and rebuild the relationship; and the school environment needs to allow this. <br></div><div>2. This is an opportunity to re-imagine instructional processes that had limitations to begin with - could we foreground this instead of the learning loss? Many teachers may be aware that they need to work with children at the level they are - could we argue for allowing the teacher this time and space and support through appropriate resources? <br></div><div>3. It may be better to offer guidelines for re-imagining the school
processes than make specific recommendations about level-wise
competencies and suggest learning ladders, etc. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Ranjani<br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 10:38 AM Guru <<a href="mailto:Guru@itforchange.net" target="_blank">Guru@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Dear all,<br>
<br>
While we are not having the regular education support group meeting,
I had a specific urgent ask.<br>
<br>
We had given the School Opening Guidelines to the Karnataka SCERT
(which was shared with this group last Tuesday). The DSERT asked us
to prepare a short version and we made a 9 pager from the longer
version.<br>
<br>
Can we meet for briefly for say 30 minutes today at 6 pm to go
through the 9 pager and share any comments/feedback? We will be
discussing this document most likely this thu/fri and finalize it
and I wanted views/inputs to revise the note before then. The
guidelines will also be relevant to Maharashtra where we are
planning to meet the department soon.<br>
<br>
We could discuss the longer document when we meet next Tue, share
offline comments. <br>
<br>
regards,<br>
Guru<br>
<br>
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On 18/10/21 10:36 pm, Sriranjani Ranganathan wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"> <span></span>Dear friends,
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">There will be no
meeting of this group this week.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">Here is a short
update on the work that is being done/ needing to be done...</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">We had
discussed during our meeting on Oct 12th, the creation of
booklets/ handbooks for teachers on specific themes
(including projects) that would facilitate a teachers’
re-imagination of how they could teach. These could
include sample activities, student practice work as well
as assessments. These guidebooks can be structured along a
template – which would allow teachers to implement the
activities, as well as develop extensions based on their
contexts and the levels of the children they teach. These
could be piloted with teacher networks that we have access
to. The objectives are two-fold (i) to support teachers in
trying out new methodologies and (ii) using learning
resources to create conversations among teachers on what
to teach and how.. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">Please do
share your thoughts on how to structure these handbooks as
well as how we can reach out to teachers; we could also
pilot these with cohorts of student teachers in teacher
education institutions.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">Sajitha and
Guru had shared a document on school reopening guidelines
requesting feedback and inputs. Request all of you to
share your thoughts and comments as well.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">Our next meeting
will be on Oct 26th.<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">Best regards</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">Ranjani and
Mythili</p>
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