How are teachers being trained for online classes?
According to CRCCs an the
HMs interviewed, trainings were conducted mostly through live video and audio
with just 44% respondents indicating that they were interactive wherein the
participants could ask questions. These trainings covered
topics ranging from ways to handle the platforms that the teachers needed to
use, creating PPTs, smart PDFs etc. as well as TLMs, sharing videos on the You
Tube, creating videos to share with students, etc.
The overall findings revealed
that the situation in terms of training wasn’t very encouraging for private
schools when compared to the government schools. After five months of
implementation, while only 9 percent CRCCs reported that teachers had not
received even a single training session, 33 percent HMs of private schools
reported that their teachers had not got any training. As can be seen from the
graph above , training on technical aspects to raise ICT competency was much
more focused upon, while training on online pedagogy, use of various TLMs,
etc., still need to be taken up more rigorously. The urgent need to train the
teachers to conduct online classes effectively is especially seen in the levels
of student distraction, student attendance, student engagement and the lack of
interactive, active learning experiences for a child.
This study was conducted to understand the
approach, challenges and implications of tech-based distance education for the
primary school students from the government and budget private schools across
Maharashtra.
More
on this in our subsequent posts.
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