Education India Project #11151

GIFT THE GIFT OF EDUCATION TO AN UNDER-SERVED GIRL

by Literacy India

Project Report | Jan 28, 2019
Gyantantra has become Gyantantra Udbhav

By Capt. indraani Singh | CEO & Managing Trustee

GYANTANTRA UDBHAV PROEJCT PROGESS

Gyantantra has become Gyantantra Udbhav as it has scaled to New heights amongst the student to build a rock solid education foundation.

Project “Gyantantra” uses Technology to innovatively address multiple problems associated with the quality of education available to the poor in India:

Need assessment

Poor level of teaching and lack of trained teachers
Inconsistency in teaching while teaching difficult concepts
Lack of motivation amongst children of the illiterate and the poor, to go to school
An absence of practice and printed workbooks in the Government schools, that are a right of every child
Lack of access to colorful storybooks, videos, and interactive multimedia learning content

Gyantantra aims to help underprivileged children with this Holistic Tech-Based Program using appropriate teaching modules. It offers:

Courses for children of 6 years and above till grade VI
Includes important lessons from English, Hindi, Mathematics, Value Education and General Studies
Incorporates major social issues like sexual abuse & HIV
Creates awareness of voting rights and the necessity of basic financial literacy
Helps bridge the learning in a short span of time for grown-up children who lost their years by not going to school. Many street children and working-class children learn to get back to mainstream education with the help of technology where human intervention fails to engage them

This unique virtual teacher was able to:

Accelerate the learning process
Raise the child’s reading ability to an age-appropriate level
Settle the child in an age-appropriate grade at the end of the intervention period
Help children operate computers and use technology to learn at their own pace
Utilize the computer lab to showcase various documentaries such as financial literacy, life skills workshops and educative presentations

Impact of Gyantantra Activities in the classrooms

Pre-assessment was conducted for each child. This included oral and written tests which are for over an hour. The questions ranged from easy to higher grade level competencies. In the current period, pre- assessment for grade III, IV & V level children was conducted across the Govt. schools as well as Literacy India community centers.

Apart from basic reading and arithmetic ability, attempts were made to measure the children’s ability to understand, express themselves, think critically and solve problems.

As per the results of the pre-assessment, there is a substantial gap between what they are required to know at a certain age and what they actually do.

Even school going children are at least two grades below the level of proficiency that they are supposed to be. In the Base Line (Pre-test), students scored 5%, 9% and 3% respectively in Hindi, Maths & English. In the End line (Post-test) students scored 31%, 40 % & 60% respectively in Hindi, Maths & English.

The Pre-Assessment was conducted for 85 students.

All 85 students secured D Grade in their Pre-Assessment

After 6 months of teaching, Post Test was conducted for all the students. Some important findings of Post Test, when compared to the Pre-Assessment, are:

The number of students in Grade A has increased from 0 to 15

The number of students in Grade B has increased from 0 to 28
The number of students in Grade C has increased from 1 to 32
The number of students in Grade D has decreased from 85 to 9
A student absent in the Post-test-1

The Gyantantra pedagogy has helped:

Students to explore their own ideas and build a robust knowledge on all subjects
Effective use of technology and intervention for better learning outcomes
Both students and teachers feel empowered to use technology in classrooms for better learning
Teachers find a way to leverage technology for professional development

Name: Khushi (Name Changed) Age: 11 Location: Kolkata

Khushi is a student of Grade III at Shastri Shiksha Sadan Gyantantra Project. When she was enrolled under the project, her performance was very poor in all subjects. She scored 12 marks out of 100. She was not able to recognize two letters words in English.

Post 6 months intervention of the Gyantantra Project, her academic performance has improved. She is now able to read and write small English sentences and also solve basic sums of Multiplication and Division.

Besides the academic performance, now she talks with confidence in class. According to her teacher, earlier she used to hesitate but now her confidence level has increased. She is able to interact and share her thoughts with others. She is also regular and comes very neat and clean to school.

Khushi, daughter of a shoemaker who earns 100 to 150 rupees per day has dreams for a better education. But Khushi is the only child of her parents. Her mother is a housewife and is doing some order-based work like assembling and packaging toys. She earns 500 rupees per month, which is not sufficient to run their family. Both of her parents want to educate their only child but due to the low income, they cannot afford that. Her parents are also uneducated and so Khushi does not get any support at home Yet this charming girl overcomes all her obstacles.

Khushi wants to be a police officer in the future.

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Oct 30, 2018
Designing Future

By Capt. Indraani Singh | CEO & Managing Trustee

SKILL TRAINING ACTIVITY IN PROGRESS

Literacy India was born in 1996 as a non-profit organization with the objective of educating underprivileged women and children and empowering them to become self-reliant and employable.

It can rightly be synonymized with three very powerful words: Education, Empowerment and Employment.

While making quality education available to the marginalized children is at the core of Literacy India’s mission, it is also important to provide this education with a purpose. And that purpose is to make the youth in our communities employable.

Following this objective, we have been running several employability enhancement programs for our youth under the umbrella vocation training program- Karigari. Karigari focuses on enhancing the employability of members of the communities that we engage with including youth, women, farmers, and tribal communities.

Vidyapeeth is the core program at Literacy India (LI) which bridges this gap, and aims at making quality education available and affordable to the underprivileged lot. This initiative of LI runs classes up to high school like any other school. The beneficiaries comes from the lowest economic and social strata of the society, and many of them are first generation learners. These children are otherwise likely to be engaged in child labour or other menial labour at a very early age and can never expect to go to a school due to poverty and traditional attitudes.

The curriculum is designed in a way so as to generate and sustain children’s interest in education and their keenness to continue to attend school. This is superimposed with extra-curricular programs, and an experimental educational approach which together span a wider socio-cultural horizon, to capture the interest of these children. Through classroom contacts, excursions, and inspirational interaction with well-known personalities, the program is a learning process in itself. The idea is to enhance the process of overall growth of these children by building character, enabling them to be self-reliant and most of all providing an opportunity to live a childhood that every child deserves. All these activities are carried out by highly motivated, dedicated and qualified teaching staff.

Project-Based Learning approach & Pre-Vocational Skills

Everyone naturally engages in problem solving. We at Literacy India Vidyapeeth school use the tools and materials available to us to adapt the environment to meet our needs. The ability to solve problems comes naturally to most. The project approach “learning by doing” is grounded in constructivist theory that is shown to improve student achievement in higher level cognitive tasks, such as scientific processes and mathematic problem solving. Students engaged in various project based learning activity & Skill training courses which encouraged children to think to pursue for technology and its related career opportunities.

Student have been educated to think in different approach to

Reflect
Imagine
Discover
Create
Share to others

The advantage of the program leads children to learnt

Transfer of Knowledge and Skills to Real-World Problems
Increased Motivation for Learning
Increased interest towards Skill related courses and Job

The mobile repairing course is designed to build up the capacity of self-employment in the field of mobile handset repairing. The course includes teaching regarding generations of mobile phones, understanding of the components used in mobile handsets, mobile phone hardware troubleshooting (water damage, hang, charging problems, network problems, power failure, keypad problems etc.), installation of software, use of secret codes, PC based diagnostic tools. Students are able to troubleshoot and repair most handsets at the end of the course.

Skills Designing Future Now Tuhid( Name changed) is Mobile Technician at Samsung Care in Gurgaon Location : Gurgoan

Grade 10th Pass out and Now Mobile Technician at Samsung Care in Gurgaon. Tuhid was student of Literacy India Vidyapeeth. He has learnt mobile repairing while studying in the school. After he passed class 10th he decided to earn from his skill and stated working at local shop near his residence. He has been trained three months additional for Job oriented skills. He also started looking for job opportunity in service center where he could learn more advance trouble shooting techniques and repairing latest handsets. Finally, his quest for job gets over when he got an interview call from Samsung Care and after his technical round he got his first job in Samsung Care in sec 14 Gurgaon. He is currently earning Rs.16000/- per month and he is continuing his 12th class studies from open school.

As told by Tuhid “Today I am skilled technician & trainer for mobile course & earn a Decent salary. Its possible due to skill training provided to me.

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Aug 2, 2018
"LEARNING BY DOING" INSPIRATION TO STUDENTS

By Capt. Indraani Singh | CEO & MANAGING TRUSTEE

satya & his classmate

Literacy India since 1996 as a non-profit organization had been educating underprivileged women and children, and empowering them to become self-reliant and employable. It can rightly be synonymized with three very powerful words: Education, Empowerment, and Employment.

Vidyapeeth is the core program at Literacy India (LI) which aims at making quality education available and affordable to the underprivileged lot. This initiative of Literacy India runs classes up to high school like any other school. The beneficiaries come from the lowest economic and social strata of the society, and many of them are first generation learners. At Vidyapeeth, the students are provided holistic education by a ‘learning by doing ‘approach using projects and practical training.

Vidyapeeth students selected for a course in Mechatronics by the Kiki Centre for Technology

Satyam and Amarjeet, two students from the Vidyapeeth School, have been selected and given scholarship fee of Rs.4.85 lakh for the three and a half years programme in Mechatronics by the Kiki Centre for Technology. Acknowledged as one of the best training systems in the World, the Kiki Centre for Technology offers a work-study model, where students learn simultaneously at the institute and also at a company.

Vidyapeeth has always believed in ‘Learning by Doing’ and has been mentoring its students in project-based activities in their areas of interest. Satyam and Amarjeet were selected because of the training they received at Vidyapeeth. Satyam and Amarjeet were inclined towards science education and have been engaged in various project-based learning activities at Vidyapeeth over the years of their study here. After scoring more than 70% in the entrance test, these children went through various personal interviews before they were selected for the long-term course in Mechatronics.

GlobalGiving Supported Education

We are grateful to GlobalGiving for the support provided for their education at Vidyapeeth. Now, these students have an opportunity to pursue the career of their dreams while also earning during the course of their study. They will grow up to become confident youth who will be able to have a sustainable livelihood.

We thank GlobalGiving again for making a difference in the lives of these capable youth.

Name- Satya (Name Changed) Age- 17 Class X- Vidyapeeth Location- Gurgaon

Satya Kumar(name changed) is a Class X student at the Literacy India School-Vidyapeeth at Gurugram, Haryana. One of our most talented students, Satya has been with us since Upper KG.

His family migrated from Bihar 12 years ago. His father works as a gardener, and mother is a helper at a saree shop. He has an older sister and a younger brother.

A confident, vocal and intellectual student, he excels in academics and loves Science and Maths. He has undertaken vocational training in organic farming and mobile repairing and also helps his father farm on the leased land after school.

Satya is the leader of “The Ideal Village Project” initiated by Literacy India in Bajghera, Haryana. He has taken up various village issues with the deputy commissioner, with courage and conviction. As a result of his persistence and hard work, the Bajghera village today has forced the government to address issues like the lack of street lights, garbage bins etc.

Teaching approach “learning by doing” as told by Ms. Sonika ( name changed)-Science teacher

Activity supported “learning by doing” has helped students to move beyond their academic learning and has truly enhanced the impact of STEM education. The Learning approach sparks thinking and creativity amongst the students, enhances student engagement, strengthens communication, and builds on collaboration, so learning can become more effective, relevant, and enjoyable.

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