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Major Activities 2010-2011

Overview

While Capacity Building of Teachers has been an ongoing agenda for Sandhan, the year 2010-11 has been very special in as much as the scale of activities increased many folds. This was also the year of working out detailed implications of RTE, for community based initiatives, educational functionaries and Technical Resource Agencies. Sandhan took up these challenges at all three levels and focussed on identifying priority areas. This involved participation in deliberations at national level as well as active contribution at the state level Planning and implementation of RTE.
At the Institutional level, a systematic attempt was made to disseminate and analyze the knowledge that was being generated around RTE. Sandhan saw it as an opportunity to rethink on its own role in the changed context of educational delivery. A series of discussions and consultations were attempted in which the conclusions were as follows –

Sandhan should continue to support adolescent education programmes like Doosra Dashak. In these, the main role would be one of pedagogical support to Teachers and Life Skill Education.
Helping Doosra Dashak and other Community Based Initiatives in trainings for documentation / report writing.
Focus on KGBVs should continue. Attempts need to be made for upscaling the activities by moving on to other districts also, beside Tonk and Udaipur.

Theory Building as an ongoing exercise, distilling the insights generated by active engagement at the ground level. This would include knowledge generated through evaluation of educational projects in other states.

Activities

Support to SSA for strengthening 'Girls Education'
Sandhan has a focus on Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas. Sandhan is working with ten KGBVs in Tonk and Udaipur districts. This intervention is in collaborative mode with Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and Unicef.
The technical support to SSA includes – Capacity building of SSA functionaries, teachers and head teachers, and continued onsite support to the school (on a monthly basis) as a follow-up of teachers training.

The on-site support to the school includes - Demonstrative training in multi-level pedagogy, supported by systematic academic planning. Use of multiple texts and Library. Optimizing residentiality and potential of the scheme. Demonstration of integrating creativity – Music, Dance and Art with academics. Weaving in Life Skill Education and Gender Issues in overall KGBV environment.

The capacity building exercises during the year 2010-11 are as follows –

S.No.	Activity	Date	Issues
1	Motivational Training of KGBV Teachers	31. May to 6 June, 10	KGBV as an opportunity for professional and personal growth. Enhancing leadership qualities. Life SKill Education.
2	Training of Trainers	11 to 14 Oct. 10	The KGBV scheme : Its concept and provisions. Condensed Course : Pedagogic techniques for addressing diversity in the girls admitted to KGBV. Life Skill Education
3	KGBV Teachers Training	18 to 27 Oct. 10	The KGBV scheme : Its concept and provisions. Condensed Course : Pedagogic techniques for addressing diversity in the girls admitted to KGBV. Life Skill Education
4.	KGBV Teachers Training	14 to 23 Nov. 10	The KGBV scheme : Its concept and provisions. Condensed Course : Pedagogic techniques for addressing diversity in the girls admitted to KGBV. Life Skill Education
5.	KGBV Teachers Training	9 to 18 Dec. 10	The KGBV scheme : Its concept and provisions. Condensed Course : Pedagogic techniques for addressing diversity in the girls admitted to KGBV. Life Skill Education
6.	Mela : As an Educational strategy - Peeplu (Tonk district)	19 Jan. 11	Activities related to – Language, Mathematics, Environment, English and Games.
7.	Mela : As an Educational strategy - Mavli (Udaipur district)	29 Jan. 11	Activities related to – Language, Mathematics, Environment, English and Games.
8.	Training of Resource Team of SSA : Mela as an educational strategy	7 Feb. 11	The concept of the Mela : as an educational strategy. Preparation of material.
9.	Demonstration training of the Mela for SSA functionaries (Panwalia, Sanganer)	8 Feb. 11	Activities related to – Language, Mathematics, Environment, English and Games.
10.	Evolving an approach for Continuous and comprehensive Evaluation: Developing a format for CCE which is simple, adequate and appropriate. A series of meetings have been held with SSA both in Jaipur as well as SIERT Udaipur on this issue.

Support to Doosra Dashak

Life Skill Education Trainings

S.No.	Activity	Date	Issues
1.	Pisangan : LSE for boys & girls	17 to 21 May, 10	Issue related to Life Skill Education
2.	Laxmangarh : LSE for boys & girls	17 to 25 May, 10	Life Skill Education
3.	Phalodi, Bap : LSE for girls	19 to 25 May, 10	Life Skill Education
4.	Bali : LSE for girls & boys	20 to 26 June, 10	Life Skill Education
5.	Pisangan : LSE for boys & girls	19 to 25 June, 10	Life Skill Education
ii Need Based Support
S.No.	Activity	Date	Issues
1.	Participation in Yuva Manch Baithak : Bhanwargarh	14 Feb. 11	Inauguration of library
2.	Support in Residential Educational Camp for adolescent boys & girls : Pindwara	17 to 19 June, 10	Academic support in language and Mathematics
3.	Workshop : Review of Hindi curriculum	10 Aug. 10	-
4.	Review of curriculum : Shahbhag	Aug. 10	Developing of a format for reviewing the curriculum.
5.	Review of the curriculum of Doosra Dashak : A workshop	17 to 18 Feb. 2011	Review of the curriculum.
iii Capacity Building of Trainers, Educational Managers for Doosra Dashak
S.No.	Activity	Date	Issues
1.	Satat Shiksha Prabhari Prashikshan : Bassi	2 to 7 May, 10	The concept of Continuing Education & its practice.
2.	Training of Shiksha Mitra (Right-to-Education) : Bap	20 to 25 May 10	School Management within the purview of Right-to-Education
3.	Training of functionairies, Mount Abu : Doosra Dashak	24 August to 1 Sept. 10	Sessions Introduction & defreezing. Review & Planning meeting – concept and practice. Facilitation of group work in all the sessions in the training.
4.	Training of DD Residential Education Camp Teachers	20 days 25 Nov. to 14 Dec. 2010	The challenges of residential education and addressing them through collective deliberations. Understanding and practice of curricular contents (Language, Mathematics, Health, Samaj ki parakh, Sahbhag), Bench mark & Evaluation techniques. Preparation of Action Plan and Evaluation points for camp management and practice of the same.
5.	IKHVELO Prabhari Training	27 Feb. to 3 March, 2011	Facilitated the group work in the training.
6.	Training of functionaries,	12 to 17 March 2011	Introduction & defreezing (the theme being - every individual is important & strength
7.	Pushkar : DD		in collectivity). Values of Doosra Dashak with a focus on 'Equality'. Report Writing.

Support to Networking Organizations

S.No.	Activity	Date	Issues
1	LSE Training for boys & girls : Ajmer Praudh Shiksha Samiti, Sarwar	27 to 30 April 10	Life Skill Education Training
2	Documentation and Report writing ; Chetna Ahmdebad	18-20 Nov, 10	Documentation : Conceptual understanding of different facets of documentation. Techniques of report writing and its practice.; with a focus on a particular project of CHETNA
3	Bajju Balika Sammelan; Preparation of case studies : Urmul Bikaner	26 to 28 Feb. 11	Interaction with 20 girls and preparation of their case studies. (The case studies published in issue of 'Anaupcharika'. may 2011
4	Training of Report writing and Documentation Urmul Khejari, Praudh Shiksha Samiti Bikaner, Praudh Shkisha Samiti, Ajmer, AMIED	12- 17 March 11	Documentation : Conceptual understanding of different facets of documentation. Techniques of report writing and its practice.
5	LSE Training for girls : Praudh Shiksha Samiti Bikaner	24 to 28 March 11	Life Skill Education Training

•	Right to Education : Ensuring Quality

A two day National Consultation on ‘Right-to-Education: Ensuring Quality’ was jointly organised by Sandhan, Bodh Shiksha Samiti, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur (IDSJ) and UNICEF, Rajasthan on 10-11 February, 2011 at IDSJ.
The specific objective of the Consultation was to arrive at a road map to operationalise the provision of age appropriate enrolment as envisaged in RTE. It aimed to bring together the rich and diverse experience prevailing in different parts of the country leading to identification of effective practices and suggestions for institutionalising this provision under the RTE act.