QUALITY MONITORING TOOLS - Consolidation of District Reports (2nd Quarter 2015-16)

State Project Office has consolidated the 2nd Quarter District Monitoring Formats of all four districts of Sikkim in respect of Academic Session 2015-16. The consolidation presented herein are of following 6 (Six) areas: 

1. Initiatives/ strategies adopted by teachers for improving teaching learning process:

a)      Teachers are trying to use activities to teach the children and trying to make the classroom collaborative.

b)      Involved maximum number of students to participate in classroom activities

c)      Preparing attractive TLMs with low cost locally available materials

d)     Adopted play way method in teaching leaning process

e)      Adopted Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation in true sense

2. Specific efforts made for making classrooms inclusive (CWSN):

a)      Ramps and disable friendly toilets are being provided in schools

b)      Special attention by all teachers to them according to their disability

c)      Resource Teachers make frequent visits and give suggestions (provide onsite supports)

3. Ways in which training inputs were used by the teachers:

a)      Teachers started using collaborative teaching techniques

b)      Teachers are conducting Continuous and Comprehensive Assessment

c)      Lecture method is now replaced by activity method

d)     Conducted debates, group discussion, role play and interactive session in the classroom

e)      Sharing of training inputs with fellow teachers

4. Suggestions for upcoming training programmes:

a)      Teachers are to be trained on Teaching through Activities

b)      School heads should be involved in training

c)      Training should be conducted in vacations

d)     Subject-based training is to be conducted

e)      Training to conduct Formative Assessment

f)       Training of school heads on Quality Monitoring Tools is to be given

g)      Training on phonetics for the teachers teaching English in primary classes

  5. In formation on Children with Special Needs (CWSN) and admission of Out of School Children

District	Children with Special Needs (CWSN)		Out of School Children admitted in the age-appropriate class
	Identified	Enrolled	Boys	Girls
East	242	99	05	04
North	84	41	0	0
South	208	85	72	53
West	148	117	38	31
Total	682	342	115	88

  6. Functioning of School Management Committee

Activities	East	North	South	West
a) Number of SMCs	233	76	231	227
b) No. Of schools where School Development Plan have not been prepared	-	-	-	-
c) No. Of schools not involving SMCs in preparation of this plan	-	-	-	-
d) No. of SMCs which have not been given training about their roles and functions	-	-	-	-

The most grey areas reported is the Functioning of School Management Committees. It seems that the district offices are simply consolidating the Block Monitoring Formats and submitting to State without analysing it at their levels. The districts need to go through the reports submitted by the blocks and provide positive feedbacks to Block Resource Coordinators to materialize the mandate of Section 22 of the RTE Act 2009. 

The above consolidation doesn't include Learners' Assessment of Summative Assessment I. 

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