[IAEP] NN, Mitra, and the role of the teacher

[Rakesh Biswas]

Thanks Subbu for the great link on the Rishi valley initiative.

It would really change the face of Indian education if what has been
proposed on the web site can be really implemented.

:-)

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Great stuff! Thanks for the link, Sabbu.  I need more time to explore
> this, but it looks very much like the old frontier one-room schools in the
> USA.
> Actually, there are still a lot of them in places like rural Montana.  A
> lot of great people came out of this type of school with wonderful
> educations, so
> we know it can work. I wonder how the XO and Sugar could best be integrated
> into this.
>
> I would love to see a sample of the "School in a Box"
>
> Caryl
>
> > From: kksubbu.ml at gmail.com
> > To: yamaplos at gmail.com
> > Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:23:26 +0530
> > CC: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
>
> > Subject: Re: [IAEP] NN, Mitra, and the role of the teacher
> >
> > On Monday 01 Nov 2010 9:43:28 am Yamandu Ploskonka wrote:
> > > Are y'all familiar with the RIVER Project? (Rishi Valley Institute for
> > > Educational Resources)
> > > their website doesn't do quite justice on how concepts like this
> > > multi-age social-based mentoring that is being shared have in a most
> > > appropriate approach to education in poor areas.
> > >
> > > http://www.river-rv.org/
> > Thank you for this link. It is good to know of other efforts towards
> > educational reforms. MGML is already in place for grades 1-3 in all
> public
> > schools in my state and is being expanded to higher grades every year.
> >
> > MGML is a problem only in curricular-driven environments. This is how
> children
> > learn, say, in homes or in playground. Grouping happens naturally by
> level of
> > competence and interest rather than by age.
> >
> > Previous efforts that I tracked did not close the loop. That is, they
> would
> > train teachers and expect changes to happen but did not verify if
> learning
> > actually happened. No method works for every child. That is why Sikshana
> > decided to work backwards - ensure every child is able to learn and keep
> > learning and support teachers to use their own masala (mix) of methods.
> >
> > Subbu
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