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Education - Interventions in Government Schools

Mainstreaming of children through community mobilization The Residential Bridge course camp is a time bound program meant for 9- 14 years age group children who are long drop outs from school and working. Once they are withdrawn from work they are put in residential camp, and this 10 months program bridges the gap between the age and required competencies and mainstreamed into formal schools and hostels. The Non-residential bridge course centers are set up near the schools to involve the local government school to proactively deal with the issue of enrolling non-school going children from the neighborhood into mainstream education process. NRBC is an interface or a motivating point in bringing girls and working children to camps.
Strengthening school community partnership by mobilizing communities to send all out of school children in the neighborhood to schools and encouraging communities to take up active role in school development programs for strengthening government schools in delivering quality education. School Development Committees is constituted by teachers, class committee representatives, parent representatives, slum leaders- lead by the principal of the school
Develop and implement school vision Involvement of all stakeholders Mobilizing local resources The Basti Schooling Committee is a forum for active members of the community who have interest in education of children Takes responsibility for schooling for all children in the slum Acts as a pressure group to withdraw children from work Strengthens relations between community and school This committee’s works as a task force for eliminating child labour
Providing Academic support to schools by development andprovision of learning material, capacity building of teachers and Vidya Volunteers, bringing reforms in teaching learning practices, remedial courses In Learning guarantee programme the schools proactively work towards mobilizing all children to schools and guaranteeing basic competencies in all children.
Enrollment of every child in the neighborhood into school Stabilization of Attendance through regular monitoring Assessment of children for the expected learning outcomes and grouping them Remedial course for achieving basic competencies required for the class Involvement of all children in the classroom. Provision of support and supplementary material to children Kathakalamu (Story Time) for strengthening language skills and comprehension Capacity building for teachers and principals Capacity building of school principal on leadership development, implementation of vision, resource mobilization Capacity building for different stakeholders for strengthening participation in school development activities Class committees are formed with students, their parents and the class teacher which work for the improvement of the class. The class teacher leads the committee which supports peer group learning, monitoring of attendance, involving parents in the classroom activities Interventions in Tribal schools The project has introduced primers in Koya language by using Telugu script that enable the tribal children to think in their mother tongue. The primers help them to acquire reading and writing skills with ease and improve the pace of learning and transition into mainstream language would be smoother. Educational support materials like “Poems, Story books, Riddles were brought in Koya and Konda reddy dialect, a variant of Telugu to create conducive atmosphere in the class room. The Tribal youth have taken active part in the development of the books. These primers with illustrations drawn from Koya native life and environment not only create conducive atmosphere in the classroom but also improve the pace of learning.