Please welcome Ms. Veena in today’s episode of ‘Pratibimba’. She has been working as an assistant teacher at Hangarakatte, Udupi. She has been teaching for the past 14 years.
She has been a group resource person for three years and has seen many schools from close quarters. She became well informed about the programs that can be practiced in any school. She started dreaming about carrying out maximum curricular activities in the school she teaches. She thanks the headmistress of her school Smt. Sesu for giving her hope about realising her dreams.
Their team wanted to lay stress on learning through experience and logical thinking. They wanted the students to ask ‘what’ why’ and ‘how’ questions leading to meaningful answers.The ‘Eco club’ members in the school were given a project about waste management, especially concentrating on waste segregation. Students were taken to the SLRM unit which segregates waste and disposes it. They became so involved in the project that they went to the depth of the problem and found that first waste disposal has to happen well at home and in the school.
The project became so popular that a student of the school won the ‘Emerging scientist’ award at the district level competition. 7th grade students made a sensor which measures the humidity required for a crop. They went on to take part in the national competition at Pune and brought laurels to the school. They celebrate the ‘National Science Day’ in a unique way. They organise a model-making competition and the best model get s a prize. They felicitate a known achiever in science on that day.
She is thankful to the education department for guiding them towards establishing a good science- maths laboratory in the school for primary students. They have also been successful in making the students carry out projects relating to day-to-day use of mathematics. They used the maths kit given through Ganita Kalika Aandolana effectively in the ‘Vidyaagama’ scheme. They also conduct English language skills training since that is also an important aspect of learning for the future.
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