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Enhancing teachers’ skills, making students spontaneous

PUDUCHERRY: Helping children to move away from the learning-by-rote system and making them more spontaneous and interactive, a school in Puducherry has put in place a system to provide quality education to students in the last two years.

Joining hands with Ahmedabad-based Educational Initiatives, Little Angels English Medium School had introduced the Whole School Transformation (WST) programme which was designed “for consistent and holistic improvement of student and teacher performance.” The programme was supported by Wipro.

“We are into the third year of the programme and it is slated to go on for a minimum of five years.

The objective is to bring quality education to children. We have targeted various areas such as training teachers and reforming the teaching-learning process,” Chief Co-ordinator of the school Suganthi Viswanathan said.

Primarily, the WST programme aims at developing teacher leadership traits and effective teaching skills, ensuring effective use of teaching-learning materials and helping the school adopt new processes, technologies and translate these into operational plans.

Curriculum development, assessment of student learning, professional development of the core team and teacher development were the key focus areas of the programme.

“We want to bring about an attitudinal change towards education in the minds of children.

As of now, children reproduce what is in the text without really understanding it. In this programme, children learn by doing and we encourage learning by self,” she said.

While the WST programme applied for the entire school, it was started with Class IV and V and would cover Class VI this year, she added.

Ms. Viswanathan said the students were continuously assessed under this programme. It helped children to be spontaneous and learning happened in an interactive manner, she said.

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