[Educationsupport] [Core] Education Support Group Meeting this week

[Sriranjani Ranganathan]

Dear Guru

A few suggestions...
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.
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?
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.

Regards
Ranjani


On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 10:38 AM Guru <Guru at itforchange.net> wrote:

> Dear  all,
>
> While we are not having the regular education support group meeting, I had
> a specific urgent ask.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> We could discuss the longer document when we meet next Tue, share offline
> comments.
>
> regards,
> Guru
>
>
> On 18/10/21 10:36 pm, Sriranjani Ranganathan wrote:
>
> Dear friends,
>
> There will be no meeting of this group this week.
>
> Here is a short update on the work that is being done/ needing to be
> done...
>
>    1.
>
>    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..
>
>    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.
>    2.
>
>    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.
>
> Our next meeting will be on Oct 26th.
>
> Best regards
>
> Ranjani and Mythili
>
>
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