Yesterday about 30 teachers from 8 districts in Tamil Nadu came to Chennai for Ready to Read program training. They will be each be teaching the program in Eureka Learning Centers in local government schools in their districts. We covered the first three weeks of content, activities, curriculum, and evaluation. While we still don't have all the materials to give to them, they each took a flip and blend book, sentence cards, sight word cards, the plastic polythene hangers fort he cards, copies of the flashcards and picture cards, the 1st week of the activity workbook, a list of activities and the evaluation tool. Many of them had already started the program and were able to give us some feedback. However, because they are all still new to the content, most of the feedback concetrated on classroom management and general teaching strategy. This will be something we need to cover more of in our subsequent training. More pictures from the training to follow.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Eureka Learning Center Training
Yesterday about 30 teachers from 8 districts in Tamil Nadu came to Chennai for Ready to Read program training. They will be each be teaching the program in Eureka Learning Centers in local government schools in their districts. We covered the first three weeks of content, activities, curriculum, and evaluation. While we still don't have all the materials to give to them, they each took a flip and blend book, sentence cards, sight word cards, the plastic polythene hangers fort he cards, copies of the flashcards and picture cards, the 1st week of the activity workbook, a list of activities and the evaluation tool. Many of them had already started the program and were able to give us some feedback. However, because they are all still new to the content, most of the feedback concetrated on classroom management and general teaching strategy. This will be something we need to cover more of in our subsequent training. More pictures from the training to follow.
Solution #2: Revising and Signing the DVD Contract
Anushka, Parvathy, Balaji and Tarun at the R2R DVD Pilot Contract SigningFinally! We spent several weeks revising the contract and rethinking the project before making it official. The filmmakers have given us two concept notes to think about for the pilot. We will be meeting with them this week to go over more ideas before they get started on the script. Because the overall budget for this project is much higher than we originally anticipated, we've decided to go ahead and only produce a pilot episode at this stage. We're hopeful that with a pilot in hand we will be able fundraise for the remaining amount. Fingers crossed! Ideas? Suggestions? Any funders out there?
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