Wednesday, February 19, 2020

A two day Orientation Workshop for newly appointed Assistant Teachers (Primary) ---- A Report

A total of 1257 Assistant Teachers (Primary) have been appointed in the current Academic Session 2019-20. In order to make them aware of all the initiatives in Primary Education and to bring about a qualitative change in teaching pedagogy of various subjects, a Two-Day Orientation Workshop was organized at RPVV Civil Lines (1207113) and S.V Shamnath Marg (1207107) for these newly appointed Assistant Teachers (Primary) from 02.01.2020 to 07.01.2020

Salient features of Orientation Workshop

Ø  Initiatives in Primary: Since 2017, a lot of initiatives have been introduced to bring qualitative changes in Primary education. Innovative practices such as Circle Time, show and Tell have been mandatory every day as classroom practices. Learning outcomes as notified by SCERT are being meticulously mentioned for each child in every subject which will then be part of cumulative record of child’s progress over the next years at least. For the first time, the Assistant Teachers (Primary) of all Sarvodaya Vidyalayas participated in the exhibition across 85 venues for sharing their best practices in two phases i.e on 30/11/2019 & 31/12/2019.     
Ø  Maths Intervention: The trainees were oriented about the basic concepts of the intervention in Mathematics based on Jodo Gyan Methodology. It included experiential training.
Ø  Making of TLMs: The trainees received a hands-on training in making of low cost Teaching Learning Materials.
Ø Classroom Library Management: One of the disciplines taken up discussed in the Workshop in detail was Classroom Library Management
      The Key points for this session were:
         ·        Procurement of Books
        ·       Accessioning of Procured Books
        ·        Issue of Books
        ·        Stock verification
        ·        Condemnation Process:
        ·        Library Activities
Ø Story Telling: The trainees were oriented about the basic techniques of storytelling at Primary Level. Thorough use of props, objects, activities to create a funny and interactive atmosphere while telling a story. Use of Storytelling for effective teaching was also demonstrated.
The Workshop was successful and could meet its targets.