Puducherry

ECE Resource Centre: Demonstrating a Model Learning Environment

October 27, 2023

Perhaps the most encouraging news is that this successful model has inspired the Samagra Shiksha, Puducherry, to establish 50 more similar ECE Resource Centres in the academic year (2023-24) across all districts of Puducherry.

A Reading Fest to ‘Elicit Literacy’

September 15, 2022

The back-to-school activities created a great interest among the children and teachers made use of this eagerness to connect activities to foundational literacy and numeracy. We suggested that teachers help students create simple stories and from there was born the idea of conducting a Reading Festival in the school.

Successful COVID-19 Vaccination, Primary Health Centre, Sorapet

June 27, 2022

Getting everyone vaccinated has direct and indirect impacts on society, like low infection rate, fewer chances of public lockdown and school closure etc. But the pace of vaccination in Puducherry was slow during the mid of the year 2021.

Designing a Teacher Capacity-Building Program for EVS

July 20, 2021

In terms of the larger insights and learning, this course gave a big picture of EVS to teachers. They could see the importance of taking children out and using the outdoor environment as an effective approach for developing appropriate EVS skills and sensitivities.

Online Teacher Professional Development: Learnings and Reflections for Classroom Engagement

April 8, 2021

The challenge of an online course lies in making it interactive and lively to sustain the interest and attention of the participants. The Tamil language teaching certificate course had six modules, each of two hours. In Puducherry, compared to English and mathematics, there are very few in-service capacity development programs conducted in Tamil teaching.

Online Teacher Professional Development: Lessons from Puducherry

December 24, 2020

In a face-to-face session, the facilitator can always know the participants’ state of mind and can crack a joke or play a game to break the monotony and capture their attention. Also, during a face-to-face interaction, PowerPoint presentations are only secondary; the facilitator is the primary point of interaction. In online sessions, PowerPoint presentations play a central role in keeping the participants engaged as the facilitator cannot see the reaction of participants and the participants cannot see the facilitator.

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