EQUIP EQUIP, started in 2016, serves as a platform for collaboration, ideation, and co-creating of solutions between teachers, principals, government education bodies and innovative external organizations
Area of Intervention Creating Education Leaders, Transforming Pedagogy and Mobilizing for Systemic Reform
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Creation of State Resource Group (SRG), comprising of members from DIETs, SCERT, and B.Ed. Colleges and the schools themselves to impart training
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School and B.Ed. College staff, members of EQUIP, DIETs and SCERT
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Administrative support from the State government for access to schools
Key Geography Delhi and Haryana
Need for the initiative Problem Low motivation levels among teachers and community, lack of adequate in-service training and innovative methods
Situation Before •
Low learning outcomes despite regular classes
Impact and Key Learning
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Students not college-ready with inadequate confidence levels in Math and English
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Eight schools performed self-evaluation with the help of Shala Siddhi framework
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Principals and TFs from 8 schools have undergone thorough monthly facilitation session
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Teacher training and follow-up conducted by JodoGyan on classroom practices
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In terms of systemic reform – proposals made to completely rebuild the BRC/ CRC (Block Resource Centres/ Cluster Resource Coordinators) structure to support the schools more in academic needs
Achieved so far
Intervention Overview The initiative aims to transform the teachinglearning practice in the classroom, with a focus on pre-primary and primary education
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Leadership intervention through professional and personal growth of the Principal and the Teacher Facilitator (TF) - identified by the Principal to build learning communities among teachers in the school Mathematics and Language (English) intervention, which involves the training of all subject teachers for a month
Key Learning •
Innovative learning-teaching methods build both teacher and student capacity for enhancing the learning outcomes
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The program needs to be extended to more schools and locations
