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PAITHONA PERCEPTIONS: Books in the classroom are not enough October 23, 2009 at 4:49 pm (activity, books, school-based, volunteering) · Edit Books in the classroom are not enough. Following the book treasury program in classrooms, we felt we need to bring the books into the lives of the children. Learning is mediated through language and Goa like States all over the country are sites of multilinguality. But English is a subject of the Primary Classroom and to make the connection between reading, learning and books we launched a program in January 2009, called English is Fun. From January to March 2009, over a 12-week period, an English immersion program was conducted daily for primary school children in GPS, Paithona, located in Salvador-do-Mundo panchayat, Bardez, Goa, by a group of seven volunteer teachers. This program was planned through the Village Child Committee of the Panchayat, constituted under the Goa Children’s Act 2005, and was a collaboration of the local governance and voluntary sector. Phase 2 of English is fun began in June 2009 and will continue upto March 2010. Our objectives are To continue with the whole language approach to teaching English comprehension and usage to the whole classroom ( Std. 1 – 4 ) over the present academic year. (2009 – 2010) using the multiple intelligences theory to learning. To include a structured component of basic literacy skills. This means teaching pre-reading and reading skills to children in Std. 1 and 2. To develop the teaching of basic literacy skills into a structured program that can be replicated across classrooms in primary schools in Goa. The journey has been exciting, frustrating and rewarding among many other things. Some images of the work are here. This program is a collaborative exercise between Bookworm, Sethu Centre for Child Development and Spandan Centre , Goa. Leave a Comment This is a b-i-r-d October 23, 2009 at 5:13 pm (Uncategorized) · Edit Leave a Comment Babu Gaonkar had a farm… October 23, 2009 at 5:06 pm (Uncategorized) · Edit Leave a Comment The day of the test… October 23, 2009 at 4:57 pm (Uncategorized) · Edit Leave a Comment -- Frederick Noronha :: +91-832-2409490 Writing, editing, alt.publishing, photography, journalism Books from Goa: http://tiny.cc/goabooks
