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New Project Proposal forAsha for Education, Austin Chapter

Uday

SAMUDAYiK

Pathshala

GSK -

Girirajpura

(Rajasthan) Slide2

IntroductionUDAY Saamudaayik Pathshala

,

Girirajpura

is the newest school that

Gramin

Shiksha

Kendra initiated on

5th March 2014.

The

school is located about 45 kilometers from

Sawai

Madhopur

and

is part of

Tonk

District’s Aligarh block.

This

school serves mainly relocated community of

two

villages.

Currently

, it has 45 children – 27 boys and 18 girls and 2 teachers. The teacher

-pupil

ratio is 1:22.Slide3

About GirirajpuraGirirajpura is a small village located four kilometers from

Amli

Railway station on Delhi –

Mumbai mainline.

This is a

newly formed

village. Villagers from two villages (

Mor

Dungari

and

Padra

) in core of

Ranthambhore

Tiger

Reserve

were relocated here in 2012.

It

took almost two years for them to settle down, make their

houses

, start agriculture, start day to day religious rituals etc

.

Gramin

Shiksha

Kendra has played a very important role

in the

just relocation package of the village.

Due

to regular interactions with the community on their rights and with the Forest Department on

their

responsibility by the organization, the villagers have been happily relocated.Slide4

How it started… The community had been demanding for the Uday

Samudayik

Pathshala

in their new village from

GSK and

has been insisting the forest department and district administration for the same.

T

he

forest

department

wrote to

Gramin

Shiksha

Kendra in January 2014 requesting to start a

Uday

Pathshala

for

children of

Girirajpura

.

They

also provided

a

peace of 10 acres of community land a three

room

school building

.

The nearest elementary school to this village is

4 km away

near the

Amli

Railway station

, that

too on the other side of the very busy railway line.

There

is also a private school in

Amli

but it is

also

located on the other side of the railway station at 4 km from

Girirajpura

.Slide5

Academic – Teachers and Students

Sr. No

Name of teacher

Educational Qualification

Group

1.

Mr. Ashok Sharma

MA, B.Ed.

School Leader; Primary

2. Mr Shailendra Singh MA, B.Ed. Pre Primary

Group

No. of enrolled children

Average Attendance

% Attendance

Boys

Girls

Total

Pre- Primary

16

5

21

18

86

Primary

11

13

24

22

92

Sub-total

27

18

40

89

Grand-total

45

 Slide6

Pre-PrimaryPre-primary group (3-6 Years) is comprised of 21 children of 3-6 years. These

21 children are further divided into 2 sub-groups according to their ages and the year of admission to the school.

10 children in 1

st

sub

-group

11

children

in 2

nd sub-group. This group runs for 4 hours each day. Slide7

Pre-Primary - ActivitiesThe activities like dance, music and dramatics are taken as an integrated whole. Children are encouraged to join in singing and dancing on balgeet (children songs).

Activities linked to drawing, painting and clay modelling and collage making are part of the daily routine.

A similar trend is followed in class I and II, with further additions such as copying shapes, origami etc.

The exposure to varied forms and mediums is increased with each successive class. The curriculum developed by GSK team is followed in the school.Slide8

PrimaryThere are 24 students who are divided among 2 different groups of 12 children each.

There

are children from class I to class V level in both groups.

7

children are at class

I

level

8

children are at class II level2 children are at class IV level7 children are class V level. Both teachers work with the groups. A single teacher teaches all the subjects to her assigned group. Slide9

Primary – Curriculum/ActivitiesThe objective is to encourage creativity and self-expression and also, enhance aesthetic sense

.

Topics taught

Arts and

craft

Sports

English

Hindi

Mathematics

Environmental studies. SIERT textbooks prescribed by the state government as our major reference point for teaching. Use children literature from various sources and the learning levels developed by the organization over a period of practice. Use TLM for understand comprehensive knowledge about subject related things. Slide10

Sharing, Monitoring, & Reporting @ School Level

Each

day, after school hours teachers sit together to plan for the teaching/lesson planning for the next day and recording the progress of student for the day (CCE). Teachers share their problems in the group and plan according to the suggestions made by the peer group.

The senior team members visit school often and they guide teachers, if needed.

Every

Thursday, a half-day meeting of teachers is organized i.e. four such meeting per month to take stock of things.

1

st

Thu - teachers review the academic work done against the school annual plan. 2nd Thu - dedicated to SMC meeting. 3rd Thu - meant for sharing academic problems and seeking solution collectively.4th Thu - share the progress of the children with the community according to our daily evaluation records.Slide11

Sharing, Monitoring, & Reporting @ Org. Level

Monthly Workshop-

The

monthly workshop of 2-day is organized where teachers share their monthly report with all the other members.

Generally

, we discuss the processes of work and the problems faced and try to seek solutions collectively.

These

workshops are also a platform for teachers to raise any particular subject-content related issue for discussion or any other issue of particular concern related to school, children or community.

During

this reporting period we hold these workshops regularly, where we shared our monthly reports and planned for the coming months. Core-team (Review and Planning) meeting-This is a bi-monthly meeting, in which the members of the core team of the organization meet. There are 8 members in the core team, including the Secretary of the organization.The agenda of the meeting is decided collaboratively and shared with the team in advance.During these meetings, we reviewed the decisions made in the previous meetings and tracked the progress of the accomplishment of set individual or group targets.Slide12

Working with Community SMC (School Management Committee) Meetings

-

SMC

is a 14-members committee comprised of the representatives from local villages, parents, school teachers and a few nominated members.

The

aims of SMC monthly meetings were as follows

:

Reorganization of SMC and ensure female representationSetting up of admission norms for the schoolMotivating the SMC and making them more aware about their rightsApprising them of the decisions taken by the organization (GSK) for the schoolDiscussions on the necessary resource requirements for the schoolSlide13

Working with Community Interaction with Local community It

is mandatory for male teachers to live in the villages. This gives them opportunities to interact with the community members on a daily basis. This helps in building strong bonds with the community.

Weekly

home visits by teachers

-

Teachers visit the homes of their children once a week and share the progress and difficulties faced by the child with their parents. They also try to find solutions and know more about their children from parents.Slide14

Professional Development of TeachersRegular Professional Development activities are conducted. Recently a 4

-day October (Deepawali)

Workshop was held.

focus

was capacity building of teachers of different levels.

Teachers

who are making TLM (clay modelling, mask designing etc.) at various levels worked on the understanding of pedagogy. Slide15

Site VisitMurali recently visited Girirajpura

when

Kilol

was happening. He narrated his experience in the meeting and showed pictures from his visit.

Will ask him to write up a report. Slide16

Q&A – from earlier meetingsQues. What is involved in legal formalities ? What is the current understanding between

Uday

Girirajpura

, villagers, forest department about ownership of the land and use of it.

Ans

.

legal formalities - affiliation to

rajasthan

board. everything belongs to the village. They have been asked by the forest dept and villagers to provide education.Ques. Is the increase in number of students shown per year estimated based on migration rate ? Ans. # of children based on the relocation plan decided by local administrationQues. How are you providing salaries to the teachers ? What is the current funding resource ? Ans. Contribution from parents + funds in reserve - 1 teacher, helsley foundation - 1 teacher from jaganpura (sponsored by helsley foundation). Once funding comes in, they will hire a new teacher for jaganpura school. 15 teachers jaganpura (225)Slide17

Q&A – from earlier meetings Ques

.

Original budget was 5.17 lakh but in the new sheet its 6.25 lakh. What was the reason for increase ?

Ans.

He was travelling so did not know the exactly why. More likely it was to keep salaries consistent with other schools.

Ques.

- What is the motivation behind being a resource center ?

- Who will conduct government teacher workshop ? Who pays for it ?

- Who will be running the training

centre ? What is the plan for that ?Ans. Resource Center concept is for GSK in general. GSK's goal is not to open and run more and more schools. Their goal is to set examples in education for govt. school teachers. They can implement ideas, innovating ways of teaching. Govt. teachers are invited to come. Govt does not send them, they come on their own free will. The resource center is done by GSK at location where schools exist. Depending on the capacity and capability of the school and its teacher, they can also organize these workshops. Typically these would be organized at the school itself.Slide18

RTE ComplianceThe school is affiliated to the state education board and

they comply

with almost all the RTE norms.

There

is a bit of concern in the infrastructure part but

that is due

to lack of resources.

They are

trying to get the resources for the infrastructure so that

they can comply with the RTE norms in that area also.Slide19
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Looking forward … The Forest Department is planning to relocate 3-4 more villages from the core of

Ranthambhore

to this location.

The

population of this

village

is going to be around 250-300 families in a few years and the number of children will be 200

-250

.

This number is good enough establish this new Uday as resource school to support 20-25 government schools in the area.Slide21

VOTEApprove a budget of Rs.

824040 ($13178.43) for the year 2015-16 for

Uday

Samudayik

Pathshala

,

Girirajpura

(Rajasthan)Current Exchange Rate 1 USD = 62.53 INR