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Citigroup – Progress Report

October’08 – March’09

Summary: April to September 08

Goals - School Based Library Programme:

• FOR CLASS 1 and 2: About 80% of the total tested children in Std I&II read word and above.
  80% of the total tested children can do simple subtraction of 2 digits without carry over.
• FOR CLASS 3 to 5: About 80% of the total tested children are at paragraph and above. 80% of the total tested children can do division.

Selection, Training and Placement of the Teacher-Volunteers:

• Selection and recruitment of teacher-volunteers- written test and interviews was organized
• Training include the learning method – how to conduct the class, testing of children, how to use the material, teaching learning material was given to all the volunteers

Assessment and Grading: The teacher-volunteers conducted Childwise baseline assessment of language and Maths of the entire school. On the basis of the assessment of the schools and considering the objectives for the year the school grading was done. Out of the 76 Schools

• Grade A Schools – 36
• Grade B Schools – 32
• Grade C Schools – 8

Teaching Learning Activities:  The teaching learning activities started from August onwards. The teaching learning activity is designed on the basis of the reading level of the children. The teacher divides the class into groups of readers and non-readers according to baseline assessment.

Objective of Language and Maths:

• Std I: words and easy sentences, Std II: able to read std II level paragraph
• Std I: number recognition 1-100, Std II: number recognition, addition, subtraction & understanding of place value
• Library activities is conducted with all the children

Objective of Balwadi:

• Early childhood education through play way methods and to develop the early school going habits in children.
• All round development of the child which include physical development, cognitive development, social and emotional development.

Recruitment and training of teachers:

• Selection and recruitment of teachers in the month of June.
• Training was conducted for the teachers on the basis of teaching Learning Material, training include - how to conduct the class, how to use the material, teaching learning material was given to all the volunteers.

Teaching Learning Activities:

Theme Based Approach: Balwadi curriculum is based on themes, each theme takes 2 to 2 ½ month to complete. For the month of July to October our themes were:-

• Our family or "Humara Pariwar"
• Our festival

Key Activities During October’08 – March’09

Detail of Programs in community and school based Karolbagh zone:

S. No	Programs	Area (Basti/School)	Units (Classes)	Children Covered
1	School Based Library	76	113	23122
2	Scholarship (Civillines (7), KarolBagh (1) & Zakheera (6))	14	28	432
3	Balwadi	28	25	504
4	Community Library	28	10	761

Note:
1. In 76 schools there was either 1 or 2 Pratham volunteer-teacher depending on the enrollment hence the unit no. is 113.
2. Scholarship activities were conducted in 14 schools who are part of the cohort of 76 schools

 

Teaching Learning Activities of Reading R1 (Activities with std I&II children) and
R2 (Activities for std III-V children):

Pre and Post Assessment of R1 - The pre test was conducted in the month of July and learning activities started from August onwards and continued till October 2008. R1 and R2 were taken up by the volunteer-teachers according to the level of the children. For our programme purpose, reading activities marks end in the month of October in the school and commencement of Maths. Post test was conducted in the month of March

Result indicate that out of 13996 children tested in 76 schools, 2353 children are at nothing level as compared to 7812 at the time of baseline. 9.4% and 14% children can read sentence and paragraph comfortably respectively as against 2% and 3.4% children in the beginning of the session.

 

Pre and Post Assessment of R2 Reading (class III to V):

Post test of R2 reading activities was conducted in the month of March, result shows that only 273 (1.6%) children are at nothing level in the end as compare to pre test 1905 (10.8%)

 

Teaching Learning Activities - Maths M1
(activities for class I to II) and M2 (activities for class III to V)

Objective of Maths: 

• Std 1 & 2: Number recognition and subtraction with carry over,
• Std 3 & 5: division of 3 digits with 1

Pre & Post Assessment of Maths M1 (class I-II):  Maths activities of class I-II was started in the month of October after the end of reading activities, pre test of Maths was taken at the same time in the month of July

Result of post test indicate that 4199 children are at nothing level as compare to the pre test it was 9070, levels are also improved in the subtraction, number recognition as we compared with the post test.

Pre & Post Assessment of Maths M2 (class III-V): Result shows that level of subtraction, division and number recognition are improved as compared to the baseline.

Library - Book Based Activities in Schools:  A set of 200 library books placed in all the schools. Our volunteer issues library books to the children according to the period and conduct library activities with children, below table and graph shows that the number of children enrolled in library and borrowed books in every month from October to March.

Total Children Borrowed Books
Zone	Oct		Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar
Karol Bagh	13,214		12,212	12,927	13,207	13,936	13,614
Zakheera	6,757		8,203	7,999	8,800	9,186	1,901

 

SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM:

Objective:

• These were the schools where 90% of the children were on can read level in Class 5.
• There will be separate teachers for teaching the Class 4 and Class 5 content.
• These 2 teachers will take the responsibility of 2 schools.

This initiative was launched in those schools (14 Schools) which have very high reading profile. Till now Pratham’s initiative has largely been remedial in nature. But this initiative targets those children who have the potential to do exceptionally well, given the right kind of encouragement. MCD conducts scholarship exam every year for its children in Std IV and V. Candidates for this are selected by Schools themselves. With the consent of the schools, we placed two volunteers at two schools (one for std IV and one for Std V) to take extra class with the short listed children during school hours.

Assessment: A baseline test was conducted of children of Class IV and class V. It was prepared on the same lines as that of the Scholarship exam conducted by MCD. The children were tested in 4 subjects namely – Maths, Science, Hindi and Social studies.

Training and Curriculum: The trainings of Pratham teacher-volunteers for this programme were conducted in the last week of November for all the four subjects. Monthly test papers have been designed on the basis of the contents covered during the given month.

Scholarship Exam: Examination of scholarship was conducted in the month of March, 432 children of  class IV and V are appeared in the exams which was conducted by the MCD, the result of this exams will declare after three month.

Balwadi: Objective

• Early childhood education through play way methods and to develop the school going habit in children.
• All round development.

Teaching Learning Activities: Curriculum of Balwadi is based on the themes and each theme takes 2 to 2.5 months to complete.

• Our Family or “Mera Pariwar” (July & September)
• Our Festival 9Mid of September to October)
• Our Body (November to end of December)
• Transport (Mid of December to January)
• Animals and Plants (February and March)

Teaching Learning Material:

• Curriculum.
• Work book for the children.
• Teaching aids related to the themes.
• Puzzles – transport, elephant and cock.
• Stitching toys and Multi tower.
• Threading beads.
• Charts – Vegetables, Fruits and parts of the body.
• Stationary – Crayons, slate, chalks, Ream Paper, Register , charts, blackboard, mats.

Project Work:

• Project work is undertaken after the completion of each theme.

Below graph and tables shows that number of children enrolled in Balwadi from October to March.

No of Children Enrolled in Balwadi
Zone	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar
ZK	474	506	509	503	504	482

Community Library: Objective

• Easy access to every child within the community
• Improved reading skills
• Improved writing skills
• Opportunity to every child for creative work of writing or experimenting various things
• Increased general knowledge
• Community should run that library (it means community should take care of that library in future)

Teaching Learning Activities:

• Library book issues return
• Book making
• Story telling
• Role play
• Games
• Story making
• Reading- story (silent and loud)
• Map activity
• Art and craft
• Bulletin board activity
• Use of torn books

Table and graph shows that number of children borrowed books from library from October to March. 

No of Children Borrowed Books
Zone	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar
ZK	666	700	748	759	761	676

Challenges and Learning:

• Despite engaging the schools in direct communication, some of them continue to use our volunteers as substitute teachers. This limits our planned activities.

 

Plan For Next Year 2009-2010:

April to June

• Pratham Delhi proposes to set up a Resource and Training center whose main objective would be to build the capacity of its programme functionaries in capacity building of Pratham full time staff in four subjects – Maths, English, Computer Education and Hindi.
• Summer camp is proposed to be organanised in May-June in this camp. Our full time staff will take class of above subject in batch of 25 to 30 children of class I to V on the bases of needs identified through Basti surveys conducted in the second half of March 09.

July to September

• Community Based programme (mainstreaming and retention support for out of school children and learning support for in school children) will be undertaken in the community.
• School Based Library programme The programme will be reviewed and the schools where we are not likely to attain our goal due to non-cooperation of the schools will be dropped, in the month of June and July selection and recruitment of SBL volunteers base line test will be taken in the month of July.
• In August our Reading activities will be start R1 for class I and II and R2 for class III to V.

Expenditure

Total expenditure during the entire period of 2008-09 is in the table below:

Particulars	April to Sep'08	Oct'08 to Dec'08	Jan'09 to March'09	Total
Teachers Financial Assistant	511,725	501,100	757,100	1,769,925
Teaching & Learning Material	107,394	19,775	32,033	159,202
Training & Monitoring	242,000	81,900	64,650	388,550
Program Support	64,941	33,494	183,888	282,323
	-			-
Grand Total	926,060	636,269	1,037,671	2,600,000