Para Teacher in Govt school for Child Education

Dear well-wishers,

In this report, Gram Vikas Trust (GVT) wants to share a story of a Change Maker. Para Teacher in one of the project school, is been working with GVT from past two years. Jayesh (Name changed) is very enthusiastic and positive towards the children’s learning. Jayesh has started many new things for good teaching and learning practices in his school with the help of government school teachers.

Children enjoying coming to school every day, parents are also well connected with the school and school staff. Parents and school teachers are able to sit at a common platform and discuss about the school related issues, and tries to solve them collectively. Few children could not able to attend the school regularly, because of the poor road condition, the faliya (street) was almost half kilometer away from the school and during the monsoon season the children of this faliya do not attend the school. Jayesh, with the help of school teachers and community members solved this issue, the villagers only prepared a road, by local resources.

Before two years ago, the situation was not like this, children were not attending the school on regular basis, school and village seems to be two separated institutions, no village members were thinking for the better education of their children. There were only two teachers, and the children were 104, for class 1 to 8. So they were also not able to take care of the teaching and learning practices. Government has put two more teachers recently and Jayesh (Para Teacher).

Now children able to get the proper education on daily basis, Jayesh tries to fill the gap by connecting the community and school by his local contacts. The change has seen by the government teachers, GVT and community members. Jayesh has dreamed that, all the village students can get good education, and will change the village situation.

Through right participation we can change the world and education system, GVT appreciate the efforts of Jayesh and wish for the betterment of the children of all the villages.

Dear donors,

Regards from Gram Vikas Trust (GVT),

GVT is filling the gap of teachers in government primary school, for better teaching and learning experiences. In many schools GVT have seen the teachers are not sufficient against the numbers of pupils. And that is the reason why the quality of education is not happening, pupils do not attend the schools regularly. The mindset has set among the communities that the government schools are not performing well, and the marginalized community only send their children to the government schools, who also not taking care of their children’s education.

Para Teachers, by GVT in few government schools have set an example of good teaching learning experiences in the schools, by the help and support of government teachers. The hand in hand approach have set a friendly environment for the pupil, which has also supported a balanced relationship with the government schools and community.

Few months back, government has launched “Mission Vidhya”, which was aimed to make all the pupil to reach to their age appropriate learning level. We (school and GVT), have identified 83 pupils and 7 government schools, who were not able to read and write, and their arithmetic skills were at very basic level. The Mission Vidhya, was for the period of one month, and government has aimed to make all the pupils to reach minimum learning level. In the beginning it was very difficult to believe that how it could be possible that all the children will reach the minimum level of learning.

Government teachers and Para Teachers, have decided and make a plan how to deal with these 83 children, and in the period of one month, how to support them to reach to their best learning level. In out of 7 school, 4 schools have arranged parents meeting to take the support of parents, and community in this mission, in 3 schools, School Management Committee (SMC) were given charge to meet few of the parents personally and try to make their parents convince to take care their children and make them sit for the homework at home. In 1 school, principal and few government teachers and Para Teacher went for door to door visit of the pupils and make them realize about the importance of education.

And the rest 30 days, the government teachers and Para Teachers have tried their best to make the children learn, at the end of the month 71 children have identified who can able to read, write and also their arithmetic skills have improved, the mission could not be 100 percent successful but the teachers were happy at this result, as they were aware about the reality, and these 71 pupils are those, who were not regular in school, their parents do not take care of their children, community is not safe for their teaching learning environment and so many other reasons.

It is rightly said that, “great things in business are never done by one person, they are done by a team of people.”

Thanking you for your continuous support.