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Geography and Economics; and Analysis of Errors committed by Upper Primary
School Students with Writing Difficulties in Malayalam. The participants as per
their group requirement collected the data in their respective localities. Data
analysis and writing preparation were done through workshop mode between 8
and 12 February 2011 under the guidance of external and internal resource
persons.
Training of KRPs of Upper Primary Tribal Schools of Kerala State on
Content Enrichment in English and Social Studies
The programme was conducted to identify the areas in which the content
enrichment is needed from the textbooks of English and Social Studies of the
upper primary classes and to develop the instructional strategies on the identified
areas in English and Social Studies. A field visit was undertaken to identify the
areas in which content enrichment was required. The material was developed in
a workshop held from 8 to 12 November 2010. Modules in History, Geography,
Civics and Economics were prepared on selected topics. Modules were prepared
on The Sound System of English, Contrastive Features of the Syntactic Structures
of English and Malayalam, Style of Teaching English, Language Rich Environment
in a Tribal Classroom, Scaffolding the Tribal School English Teacher, Computer
Assisted Language Learning, Using the Language Lab in Tribal Schools and
Role-Play in Classrooms. The package was finalised in a workshop conducted
from 20 to 24 December 2010.
Training of Pre-University KRPs of Karnataka in Planning for
Undertaking Action Research
The programme was undertaken to enable Pre-university KRPs of Karnataka in
planning and undertaking research activities. The training programme was
conducted from 19 to 23 October 2010. The participants were oriented on the
preparation of proposals for action research. Several proposals were developed
by the participants at training programme. The participants were guided to
undertake the research activities in their respective institutes.
Orientation of State Education Functionaries on Right to Education
The training programme was organised with the objectives to develop an
understanding of the need, significance and features of the Right to Education,
to develop awareness towards the duties of parents, government and local
authorities to identify the responsibilities of schools and teachers, to develop an
understanding of protection of rights of children, and to understand the role of
state functionaries in executing the ACE. Two planning meetings were held on 8
and 9 August 2010. An activity for material preparation was held on 2-3
September 2010. The education functionaries were oriented from 15 to 17
September 2010. In the programme, the participants were familiarised with the
Act and rights of the child. State-wise action plans were also prepared during
the orientation programme.
Training of KRPs of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu in
Guidance and Counselling
The training programme for the key resource persons was held from 29 November
to 3 December 2010. The participants were trained on the concept of guidance
and counselling, skills and competencies required for a guidance counsellor,
Annual Report 2010-11