While explaining a problem on the blackboard, she deliberately made a mistake and then called upon a child who was not concentrating to lead the class through to the next step. It worked. The students now hang on to every word during lesson time to make sure they are aware of what she is doing. That way, learning occurs.
Just changing the order of names in the attendance register and a simple vocabulary game during those five minutes of roll call can result in a student earning 400 new words a year. And installing a 'best students of the month' and 'best class of the month' display board has actually led to a big drop in number of absentees and striking improvements in overall performance of students in a different school. How about simply studying routine aspects of community life to imbibe the fundamentals of mathematics?
Policies apart, such classroom-level micro-innovations by individual teachers can bring about significant improvements in delivery of education, and this was successfully showcased at a conference in the city on Saturday. Piloting an international movement of teacher changemakers in Delhi which will then travel to other parts of the country as well as overseas to African shores, non-governmental organization STIR (Schools and Teachers Innovating for Results) showcased 55 classroom innovations which are not part of any policy decisions but a result of individual efforts of teachers.
Innovations in government schools stand out like that at the girls' upper primary school in Agwari village of Rajasthan where sharing stories became a way to stop girls from dropping out. Students were encouraged by teacher Vinita Kanwar to share their personal stories and motivations in the classroom to foster a sense of purpose. Or, for that matter, the one at the municipal school in Sriniwaspuri closer home where, observing the students' disinterest in printed matter, teacher Ritu encouraged Class IV students to publish books for their own library.
Jo Owen, chair of STIR, said, "This is a global initiative we piloted in Delhi. There are plenty of experts ready to give suggestions. Our view is there are good people with great ideas. We have to listen to them and liberate their ideas from the confines of their classrooms so that they can be followed in other schools. In each school we find two to three teachers doing good work beyond their routine jobs."
Owen said the second phase of the project will be simultaneously implemented in Uttar Pradesh and Uganda. "The idea of STIR is to innovate, implement and influence. We believe there is hope as there are a lot of good things happening across classrooms."
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