By Umesh | Co ordinator - Training and Teacher Support
The Inclusive Teacher Project
Greetings from The Teacher Foundation !
Disadvantaged children in rural India can benefit most from more enlightened, inclusive teaching. This project aims at empowering 125 school teachers in the poorest areas with an intensive, inspiring Inclusive education program. It consists of a 5-day workshop and powerful school-based support sessions using proven methods to enable teachers to bring in the last child into engaged learning.
Challenge:
As per the official records, out of the 135,301 children identified as children with special needs in Karnataka, 121,153 are enrolled in schools and 14,148 are given homeschooling. This makes Karnataka one of the 8 States in India that is 100% in compliance with the Policy of Universal Primary Education. However, ground data suggest that 70% of our regular school teachers have "neither received training in special education nor have any experience teaching students with disabilities."
Solution
The Inclusive Teacher Project consists of a 5-day workshop and powerful school-based support sessions using proven methods to enable teachers to bring in the last child into engaged learning. Workshop on various aspects of Inclusive Education will help teachers learn various ways in which they can include children with disabilities and teach. During school based support trainers from The Teacher Foundation will observe teachers in classrooms, to provide them with the required support.
Long-Term Impact
The Inclusive Teacher Project will enable these 125 teachers from Government schools to ensure that all children despite their differences, receive the opportunity of being an equal part of the same classroom and in the process get the learning opportunity of being exposed to the curriculum to their optimal potential. Since a teacher impacts over 400 children over her/ his career, this programme has a potential impact of 50,000 disadvantaged children.
Project Progress:
The Teacher Foundation is in touch with the State Education Department Officials for the implementation of the programme. We have had discussion with Haveri and Yadgiri district officials about the programme. Both the district officials are keen to take this forward in their respective regions. The programme is tentatively scheduled to commence in the month of June 2017.
We will keep you posted about the programme permission from the State & District levels.
Thank you for your support!
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