I attended the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation Training (CCE) for the Primary School Teachers, The training was conducted by the Department of Education, Puducherry with the collaboration of Azim Premji Foundation.
9th
August 2012,
The
training program started at around 9:30 AM.
The first
activity was of introducing each other. There were about forty primary school
teachers from different schools of puducherry. The teachers introduced
themselves by saying their names prefixed by an adjective which best suited to
them and also the reason which they have choose teaching as a profession. The
activity went interesting.
After the
self-introduction of the teachers the facilitators projected some photos in
front of the teachers. The photos showed some children as well as teachers
clicked from different situation. The teachers were asked to discuss on the
photos; about the emotions, background and also the teachers were asked to
connect these photos with the experience from their schools. Some of the
teachers shared their experiences too. One of the major learning of the
activity was that each child should be given individual attention.
The photo
activity was followed by an activity where the teachers were grouped and was
asked to discuss on what all a child knows before he/she comes to the school
and also they were asked to discuss on what qualities and knowledge should a
teacher have in-order to enhance the existing knowledge level of a child. The
activity brought into the insight that, a child, before coming to the school
has some knowledge in the local language he/she speak and also some of the
people he/she comes across with respect to the relationship they have to the
child. Also some basic numbering and some institutions like hospital, anganwadi
etc.
Second
half of the day there was a case study given to the teachers and they were
asked to have a role play on it. All the teachers actively participated in the activity.
The role play helped the teachers to get to know with different situations like
that of the differently abled child and also on some of the learning
disabilities which some children might show. These activities really helped the
teachers to understand some concepts on the need of encouragement as well as
individual attention.
After the
role play the facilitator asked the teachers about their understanding on the
term evaluation. The concept of evaluation was divided into three; the possible
emotions which a child will have, the methods through which evaluation is been
conducted and also on the purpose of evaluation. The teachers deliberated that
the possible emotions would be fear, irritation and in some case the child may
even fall ill. The methods which are been commonly used which was told by the
teachers were oral, activity based, written etc. the purpose of evaluation may
be for testing the knowledge of the child, his/her level of learning, to
understand his/her skills etc. some of the teachers said that the purpose of
the evaluation is to get a feedback on the process of teaching and mainly to
check whether the child should be promoted to the next level. The major
learning from the discussion on the evaluation was that, majority of the
teachers were against the method of rot learning and mugging up of the things
taught
10th
August 2012,
The second
day started at around 9:30 AM…
The sessions
started by having a small recap on the learning of the previous day. The
teachers recalled what was discussed the day before. The major point was that
the assessment of a child should be based on his/her strength as well as
weakness and not based on only the level of his/her memory. The concepts of
summative as well as formative assessment were discussed among the teachers.
Summative assessment is the one that happens at the end of the term and
formative is a kind of continuous process where a child is been assessed on the
basis of the activities and performance throughout the year. This formative
assessment could help the teacher also to know on where he/she should improve
in the teaching methodology. It was brought out that the best is the formative assessment
the better will be the summative result.
After the
discussions the teachers were grouped and were asked to do an activity through
which the concepts of scholastic as well as co-scholastic type of learning. It
was understood that any content knowledge we have is scholastic and any
activity we do in order to make the content to be understood is co-scholastic.
The activity of juice making helped the teachers in understanding these
concepts.
Some
activities on both Math as well as English where discussed. These discussions
really helped the teachers in having a chance to learn from their peers.
13th
August 2012,
The third
day of the workshop started at around 9:45AM…
The
session started with a small recap on the last days learning. After the recap
the facilitator gave an activity where the teachers were asked to discuss on
the meaning of the words Continuous, Comprehensive, Evaluation. The teachers
put forward so many thoughts on these concepts. It was said that the continuous
evaluation is for the teachers to know the effectiveness of the teaching
methodology as well as for the children to understand on their on learning. The
term comprehensive according to the teachers was that both scholastic and
co-scholastic learning been assessed and evaluation is to know what the child
has learned.
There were
some doubts for the teachers on the scholastic and co-scholastic part. An
activity on the germination of the seeds were given to the teachers, through
which those concepts where unpacked to the teachers. Also discussions were done
on the indicators which can be used to assess the scholastic as well as co-
scholastic learning.
The
sessions were followed by the criteria of the distribution of marks in CCE.
The
teachers gave their feedback on the CCE training. All of them said that the
training was very usefull and they would try to work it out in their class..
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