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Examination Skills

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Empanelment JD

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Gen1Can is based on the research developed by LearningInq, which was started in 1992, to find pragmatic solutions for taking high quality education to scale for the most educationally vulnerable children.Each variable of quality was tested across contexts: Urban Poor: Vidya Bridge, Hope Project Charitable Trust, Child Survival India, Deepalaya, LearningInq Trust; Resettlement Colonies: Navjyoti

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There are different types of Government schools in Delhi. The variety has been created to accommodate a range of contexts that children experience. It is a considerate system but which breeds class discriminations when it is implemented.The largest numbers of schools are those run by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and cost the least and therefore the most accessible for the student. However,

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The RtE asks that each recognised school have a SMC (Please view the Act on the Home Page). Gen1Can can help your NGO school or low cost private school to initiate or re-vitalise your existing parent/mother/PTA group to become an effective SMC.Indicators of success in a matter of months can be as follows:1. Parents will understand the academic and pedagogic processes followed in the school.The

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The school hopes that it makes becoming educated a viable option for anyone wants to learn in the Nizamuddin Basti. The age, timings that the learner can come to school, the amount of learning s/he comes with, the pace at which s/he learns, the number of years it has been since s/he dropped out of school and even the venue or language should not deter the school from delivering this

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In the month of June, students are on summer vacations. During this period, the teachers collate all their materials and review what they had taught in the last year. This year, they also considered the ways in which the students’ responses had changed and found themselves eager to revise the curriculum. All the teachers asked themselves the question: ‘What is worth teaching?’One of the

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There is an experiment in progress, which aims to reduce the time that it takes to achieve literacy that compares to the Standard 5 level to three months. At the end of one month, the progress was more the satisfactory. The intention is to complete the experiment, learn from it and offer the service to at least one more group of women who have expressed their desire for Adult Education Classes.A

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On Independence Day students were asked to wonder about the question: Do people in India feel independent? Has freedom reached them, the girls? The youngest to the oldest children expressed their heartfelt emotions. They made presentations on what freedom they wish for and what brings them happiness. Some spoke of wanting education, some asked for the right to receive the same love as their

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As a continuation of the innovative practices of assessing students for their understanding of the content that is taught at school, student presentations were organized. Students of all classes made presentations on various subjects. A presentation is an open space for students to speak and listen to themselves as they speak. The participation of every student is ensured. It provides an

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The Hope Project School has seen as many attempts at introducing sexuality in the curriculum as it has seen movements of determined resistance to it. The staff was introduced to excellent curricula, even trained on transacting it, but nothing seemed to pass the test of subtle and undefined appropriateness that was the thin red line. Like so many other ideas that were picked through and discarded,

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The discussion on why children should get two months holidays in summer, led to the fact that some wanted to learn skills in one month and have a holiday for one month. The children were promised that they would be taught whatever they wanted to learn through Saturday Clubs.This is an opportunity to give the children pre-vocational education, so that they have some ideas on choosing their source

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The Social Sciences curriculum is based on the belief that culture and therefore history is a response to an adaptive dance life in all its forms dances with the physical geography of the planet. The sequence of information and the inquiry process that comprises the curriculum results in a compassion for diversity and ecological balance. The Kids in Nature Fund is being used to meet the promise

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The Second Annual Social Science Workshop was held with all classes of the Girls School from the 25th to the 31st of June. The objective was for the students’ to gain an understanding of the connection between an exploration of the SELF and the experience of coming to school. The driving questions were ‘Why do you come to school?’ and ‘What do you learn because you come to school?’ They took

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The Walk In class was started in April of 2004 as one more space where children and adults could meet to create opportunities for learning, one more structure through which children can be heard so what they say can lead learning.It was created because the possibility that we may never be able to anticipate every need the context presents, because as many classes as we create for children with

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Gen1Can sets up comprehensive reading programs in your school with measurable results in:1. Increased fluency in teachers and students with English and the native tongue, where fluency equals reading with comprehension, speaking with understanding, functioning in the language-environment.2. Increased usage of language (widened vocabulary) in the use of debate, discussion and expression of opinion

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It has taken a generation of the time and resourceful effort by members of the Hope team to ensure that the education for girl children in the basti is more the norm than the exception. Standing on the shoulders of this achievement, we are now happy to announce that girls and boys have chosen to attend classes without focusing on the segregation but on the availability of a high-quality learning-

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This is a new program that has been started at the school wherein students who choose to be occupied instead of roaming the streets meet in the afternoons between schools to engage in activities of their choice.A volunteer taught the students of P2 the basics about the computer. They learnt enough about the computer to be able to open and close the machine and files without too much destruction.

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The supplementary nutrition program was evaluated internally. On the basis of results, it became clear that there were many students who needed to access the supplementary nutrition service and were not being able to because of a lapse or an inadequacy in systems.In Phase I, each student was asked to declare show that they had carried lunch or were going to be sent lunch later. Those who had

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The Home Science Lab had its first exhibition. On show were students’ learning about cooking, food preservation, textiles, and catering, nutrition and consumer education.The students of the Home Science classes made pickles, ‘paushtik parathas’, and ‘dum chai’ & sold the combination for Rs.10/- on the day of the Home Science Exhibition.The pickles were sold out @ Rs.45/- per Kg on the same day

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One of the ways in which students are assessed at Hope is through their ability to convey their understanding about a subject to the uninitiated. We invited guests to provide them and our students the opportunity to assess and celebrate their learning in Science. There was a marked difference in the nature of the exhibition this year as compared to last year. This year, the focus shifted from the

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Math has not been taught at the GNFS with the same intensity as the other subjects. This has been because of one reason. It is an optional subject in the National Open School Examination. Thus, the amount of Math that a child could learn was never an issue. There being no deadlines to meet, the level of learning in Math even by the time the child graduated from the GNFS could be as low as 5th

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The work has begun to expand the school that is run in the evening from being a centre for Remedial Instruction to becoming a full school that consolidates information into learning using inquiry as a technique.The Individual Education Plans of the students attending the school in the evening are being re-visited. Class timings have been extended to one hour per subject, taught by subject experts

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Project Duration: 8 August - 11 SpetemberThe initiative was taken by Room to Read to celebrate World Literacy Day as it is celebrated internationally on the 8th of September, 2006 . It was celebrated on the 10 th due to schedule constraints of the donor agency, along with another NGO, Manzil, because of constraints they had.Children follow up on an activity that had taken place in their Bal

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Three volunteers from France, who have been friends to the Project for two years, came back to run a project with community children, through which they created a blog about the ‘basti’. Participants went through a long and trying selection process. Only those found committed and clear about the contribution they expected to make were invited to join the 12 day workshop. Students were taught the

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The trip to Rajasthan was planned as part of the Social Science and General Sciences curriculum. The Social Sciences curriculum is based on the belief that geography leads to history leads to culture. Thus, the course content begins with the story of the universe and the earth, forces of nature and different eco regions on the planet, followed by how life emerged and adapted to the differences in

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Language Learning is a difficult business without it involving a third and fourth language. The email exchange project has been an activity that the school has tried to work on in fits and starts for more than a year without much success or consistency. Setting up and maintaining an exchange with another school/ class in another location can be a logistical nightmare, especially as,

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