Zakir, Shehnaz
(2018)
Insights from a SSA training programme.
Learning Curve (30).
pp. 80-81.
Abstract
All the teachers of government schools are given a 6-day training by Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) so
that the teachers can be made aware of certain issues related to education such as CCE, improvement
in the results of examinations and effective classroom teaching. After getting a job in government
service from an aided education institution, I too got the opportunity to participate in a training
programme conducted by SSA. I was attending this for the first time although I had been a part of many
training programmes in Vidya Bhawan during my 14 -year tenure. With the same perception of training
in mind, I came to SSA training programme with a lot of enthusiasm.
The training lasted for six days, in which the participants were supposed to work on two subjects –
Mathematics and English. Three days were allotted for each subject. On the first day, half of the time
was spent in reaching the venue and getting the registration and other formalities done. Then the
discussion started on Mathematics and the Master Trainer (MT) asked us to share our problems. The
teachers came up with their problems, which ranged from fractions, statement sums and writing the
numbers. But no one had the solutions to these problems. Every year such problems are put forth
in the training but they do not get resolved. Teachers are unable to understand how to teach these
concepts. All the teachers wished that the Trainer should take the discussions forward so that some
solution may emerge. But he could not do it since he had no experience of these classes and also he
had not seen the textbooks of classes 1 to 5. So he was unable to discuss the issues related to this
topic. He then asked the teachers to share their teaching experience and the methodologies they
adopted which enabled children to do sums correctly. The ball was in teachers’ court again. Most of
their experiences pointed towards making the children mug up things somehow, remember it for some
time and teach it again the following year. On the whole, the entire discussion was of no use and the
MT was not able to facilitate the whole process properly.
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